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Council approves licenses, multiple rezoning requests and assessments in routine votes
Summary
Sioux Falls City Council approved a slate of routine items Sept. 3: new retail and special‑event liquor licenses, multiple rezoning ordinances, the Experience Sioux Falls BID budget and several assessments and public‑works resolutions, mostly by unanimous votes.
Sioux Falls — At its Sept. 3 meeting the City Council approved multiple routine agenda items including new retail wine and malt beverage licenses, several second‑reading rezoning ordinances, business improvement district assessments and a street maintenance assessment.
Licensing staff presented applications for new retail wine and malt beverage licenses and special‑event permits (items 30–34) for Kwik Star locations and community organizations; the council approved them by voice vote (7‑0).
The council also approved a group of second‑reading rezoning ordinances (items 36–41) covering small‑lot residential rezonings, single family and mixed‑use transitions, and staff said the planning commission had recommended approval on those items. Each rezoning motion passed unanimously on recorded votes.
Council approved the Experience Sioux Falls Business Improvement District 2025 budget (item 47), which is funded by a $2 per room per night hotel/motel occupancy fee the city collects and remits to Experience Sioux Falls for tourism marketing. The council also approved a special assessment roll for the Downtown Sioux Falls BID totaling $457,805.14, and the annual front‑foot street‑maintenance assessment (item 50) which continues a longstanding $1/foot fee to fund pothole patching, resurfacing and sweeping.
In public works business, the council adopted a resolution of necessity to reconstruct East 6th Street (item 48), authorizing design and future assessments to five adjacent property owners; staff estimated construction bids near $3.3 million. Several of these items were unanimously approved by recorded votes.
