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Committee approves first reading to add 400-square-foot open-space requirement in office commercial zoning
Summary
The Rapid City Legal Finance Committee voted to approve the first reading of Ordinance No. 6,631 to add a 400-square-foot open-space requirement per apartment unit in the office commercial district, correcting an omission that left a residential standard out of the office-commercial code.
The Rapid City Legal Finance Committee approved the first reading of an ordinance to insert a 400-square-foot open-space requirement for apartment units into the office commercial zoning code.
Vicki, a community development staff member, told the committee the requirement already exists in medium- and high-density residential sections and said staff “requested that you approve” the correction so the same standard also appears in office commercial language. She said the omission was discovered after new planners reviewed the ordinance text.
A committee member asked whether the rule would force each developer to provide a small “pocket park” or whether multiple adjacent developments could combine amenities. Vicki said staff regularly allows a project to meet the open-space requirement “as a whole” when one building provides shared features such as a community room or pool and that staff would work with developers proposing combined space.
The committee took a voice vote on the ordinance’s first reading, which the chair declared passed. No public comment was recorded on the item. The ordinance was identified in discussion as Ordinance No. 6,631; the committee approved first reading, with further readings or administrative steps to follow under the city’s legislative process.
