Rapid City SD – Rapid City’s Zoning Board of Adjustment and Planning Commission meet back-to-back Thursday morning, starting at 7:00 a.m. in the City Council Meeting Room.
Seven items are up between the two bodies. Most of it is routine — a garage, a couple of subdivisions, a variance or two. Two items carry more weight than their one-paragraph agenda descriptions let on, and one has staff sitting on the fence for the first time in this batch. Here’s what’s actually on the table.
Zoning Board of Adjustment
26VA022 — Country Club Heights Subdivision. Scull Construction wants to reduce the north side yard setback from 12 feet to 8 feet to build an addition at 3119 Flint Drive. Straightforward residential setback request.
26VA024 — North Valley Park. Valley Six Property LLC is asking to expand an HVAC business’s contractor storage yard at 970 N. Valley Drive — gravel instead of hard surface for the drive aisles, and a 6-foot chain-link fence instead of the required 7-foot opaque fence.
This is an expansion of a yard the same owner already got a nearly identical variance for back in 2023. Staff recommends approval.
26VA025 — Brown Addition. This is the one worth understanding.
The old Wendy’s at 520 Mountain View Road is being redeveloped into a Burger King, and the company wants two drive-thru ordering lanes instead of one.
City code requires each drive-thru lane to have enough “stacking spaces” — queue spots for cars waiting to order — that a line doesn’t spill into the parking lot or the street. One lane needs 7 spaces; two lanes need 14. Burger King’s site plan only fits 9 spaces total between both lanes, a shortfall of 5.
What makes this stand out isn’t the ask — it’s that staff isn’t taking a side. Every other item on this agenda comes with a clean “staff recommends approval.” This one’s report just lays out the case for approval and the case for denial and leaves it to the Board. That’s unusual, and it means Thursday’s outcome isn’t a foregone conclusion the way the rest of the agenda is.
Planning Commission
26PL073 — Black Hills Industrial Center, Phase 3. A routine 15-lot industrial subdivision south of Old Folsom Road.
The only technical wrinkle: one of the new streets, Creek Drive, is being built as a roughly 3,200-foot cul-de-sac, well over the city’s 500-foot limit, which means the developer needs an engineering exception.
26PL074 — Shepherd Hills South, Phase 5. BH Capital LLC is platting 105 new residential lots east of the current end of Noah Street. Straightforward growth plat, phased in three stages.
26RZ030 — West Century Subdivision. Black Hills Area Community Foundation wants roughly 15.6 acres near E. Anamosa Street and Utica Street rezoned from Light Industrial to Office Commercial, with the stated intent of building multifamily housing.
The property sits inside Tax Increment District #91 — the Camden Heights Affordable Housing & Infrastructure TID, approved in 2024 — a different district from the East Anamosa TIF. On paper this reads as a straightforward affordable-housing rezone. Property ownership on this parcel hasn’t been independently verified through county records, which remain unavailable due to Pennington County’s ongoing cybersecurity outage.
26UR015 — Storybook Island.
The children’s park at 1301 Sheridan Lake Road is planning to demolish its existing party house and replace it with a larger complex — party house, concessions, restrooms, and administration offices connected by a new entryway, moved about 250 feet south of the current entrance.
The city’s report describes the design style as “Disney Architecture.” Because the site sits in the Flood Hazard District, it needs a Conditional Use Permit amendment — its fourth since 2015, so building here is routine for this specific park.
If approved, demolition could start as early as September with groundbreaking in October. As with West Century, ownership/permitting history beyond what’s in the city’s own packet hasn’t been checked against county records, which remain down.
26UR014 — Grandview Tract. A homeowner on Ponderosa Trail wants a Conditional Use Permit for an oversized detached garage — replacing a shed the city itself removed during a road reconstruction project.
Sourcing
City of Rapid City Zoning Board of Adjustment Agenda #1 and Planning Commission Agenda #2, August 27, 2026; Planning Commission and Zoning Board of Adjustment Project Reports for Case Nos. 26VA022, 26VA024, 26VA025, 26PL073, 26PL074, 26RZ030, and 26UR015, City of Rapid City Department of Community Development.
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