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Planning commission forwards Ordinance ZN 2503 after debate over Lakeside Commercial uses
Summary
The planning commission voted to forward Ordinance ZN 2503 — the annual zoning-map update that incorporates Article 11 additions and repeals Article 27 — to the Yankton County Commission after discussing whether Lakeside Commercial rules could allow mobile-home sales or pawn shops; the motion carried with one abstention.
The Yankton County Planning Commission voted to forward Ordinance ZN 2503, an annual update of zoning maps and edits to Article 11 that repeal Article 27, to the county commission after discussion about permitted and prohibited uses in the newly consolidated Lakeside Commercial zone.
At the start of the public hearing, staff summarized that the annual map update is primarily procedural: the master map must be updated each year to reflect rezones approved during the year. Commissioners then shifted to substantive questions about what language was carried forward when Article 27 was repealed.
"There's a list of things that could not be in this corridor, like hazardous waste storage," one commissioner said, noting the text removed with the repeal. The commissioner flagged that, under Lakeside Commercial definitions and the revised Article 11, certain uses could be interpreted as permitted unless explicitly excluded. He asked staff to confirm whether manufacturing definitions could allow activities such as "cannabis product manufacturing" and whether "open sales area" language might be used to permit mobile-home or manufactured-home sales along Highway 52, which the commission had previously forbidden.
Commissioners examined specific potential loopholes. One raised that "open sales area" is broadly defined and includes display for sale of new or secondhand merchandise, and asked whether mobile-home sales could be squeezed into that definition. Another noted pawn shops could reappear if treated as retail rather than an explicitly excluded use. Staff and fellow commissioners discussed tow yards and salvage operations and concluded some uses remain prohibited but others could require closer drafting or explicit exclusion.
The commission also agreed to remove a narrowly prescriptive list of acceptable shade trees from the ordinance, replacing it with broader landscaping standards to give the zoning administrator discretion when approving species.
After debating those points, a commissioner moved to forward the proposed ordinance to the county commission with one specific change: explicitly exclude manufactured-mobile-home sales from "open sales area" language. The motion was seconded and carried on a roll-call vote (Hubert: Yes; Lowest: Yes; Kettering: Yes; Hummel: Yes; Welch: Abstain; Clark: Yes).
The commission did not take final action to adopt ordinance language at the meeting; the vote was to advance the updated map and ordinance language to the county commission for further consideration.
What happens next: the ordinance and the proposed text changes will be presented to the county commission at a future meeting for final action. Staff members were asked to prepare the materials and post the updated master map for public inspection.
