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Copperfield residents ask Rapid City Public Works Committee for exceptions to drainage-easement enforcement

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Residents of the Copperfield subdivision urged the Rapid City Public Works Committee to allow existing sheds, fences and garden beds to remain in a drainage easement after receiving city letters requiring removal by May 31.

At the Rapid City Public Works Committee meeting on May 13, Copperfield subdivision residents urged the committee to exempt long-standing sheds, fences and garden beds from a recent city enforcement effort that asks homeowners to remove structures from a drainage easement by May 31.

The request came during the meeting's general public comment period. Lynell Campbell, speaking for neighbors including Sandy Cooper, said residents maintain the easement and that the city has not historically used or maintained the land. "The city will never use that so called drainage easement that's about a 90 feet wide by about a half mile…

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