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Committee approves staff to publish approximate city utility locations on RapidMap
Summary
The committee directed staff to proceed with making approximate RapidMap layers for water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure publicly accessible. Councilman Roberts said public access will benefit local engineers and criticized reasons against publishing the layers as "blatantly false."
The Rapid City Public Works Committee voted to instruct staff to proceed with public access to RapidMap layers that show approximate locations of city water, wastewater and stormwater infrastructure.
Councilman Roberts moved the action and spoke in favor, saying he has “been a strong advocate of this for at least a decade” and that making the layers public would be “huge for the engineers in town.” He told the committee he had heard “a lot of different excuses why we shouldn't do it” and called most of those excuses “blatantly false.”
No substantive opposition was recorded in the transcript. After the motion and brief remarks, the committee approved the direction for staff to proceed; the transcript records the motion as passed without a roll-call tally.
Staff did not elaborate in the recorded discussion on how the city will balance public access with any security or operational concerns, nor did the transcript record a timeline for when the layers would be published. Councilman Roberts and the committee’s vote indicate city staff should proceed with implementation steps.
