Board discusses ETJ mapping, intergovernmental coordination and next steps for ordinance updates
Members reviewed an updated ETJ boundary map with the City of Spearfish, discussed a stalled 1980s extraterritorial-jurisdiction ordinance draft, and considered forming a joint committee and meeting with the new city community-development director to finalize a revised ETJ agreement and ordinance language.
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Board members spent a substantive portion of the meeting discussing the county's extraterritorial-jurisdiction (ETJ) arrangements with the City of Spearfish, a draft ETJ ordinance dating to the 1980s and a need to reconcile map and ordinance updates. Staff said the official boundary map has been updated in both city and county systems, though a draft ordinance that would implement the map has not been finalized.
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