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Task force flags water, utilities and zoning as top barriers to development in Yankton County
Summary
Members highlighted water availability, utility capacity and site-readiness gaps—citing a rezone example and costly street work—while nonprofit and regional partners said they can help assemble land and funding to make shovel-ready sites.
Yankton County’s growth task force spent a significant portion of its meeting on infrastructure and site-readiness, identifying rural water capacity, sewer, roads and easements as recurring bottlenecks that delay or derail development.
A rural-water representative described repeated cases where developers assumed water availability only to learn later that mains lacked capacity or that improvements would be at the developer’s expense. The Drotsman addition was cited as an example in which a developer waited roughly two…
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