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Planning commission approves Storybook Island updates including Smokey Bear tower and Pooh treehouse
Summary
The Rapid City Planning Commission approved a major amendment to a conditional use permit allowing three new and replacement play structures at Storybook Island, pending a floodplain development permit and standard staff stipulations.
The Rapid City Planning Commission on Aug. 21 approved a major amendment to the conditional use permit for Storybook Island that will allow three new or replacement play structures, including a Smokey Bear observation tower, a two‑story Winnie the Pooh treehouse and a “Little House on the Prairie” replacement structure.
The amendment, requested by the Storybook Island board and presented by Dana Foreman of DGR Engineering, covers three separate improvements at the park. Foreman described “the Smokey Bear Structure…an elevated structure that’s kind of a tower,” and said the items are…
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