These regulations have been based upon the Sioux Falls, Comprehensive Plan adopted by the board of county commissioners on March 28, 2017, and the city council on October 11, 2016, amended by the city council on April 18, 2017, and are in conformance with SDCL chapters 11-2, 11-4 and 11-6. These regulations shall establish a common working relationship between the city and Minnehaha County to carry out the goals and objectives of the plan as adopted by the city and county, but especially to lessen congestion in the streets; to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers; to promote health and the general welfare; to provide adequate light and air; to prevent the overcrowding of land; to avoid undue concentration or scattering of population; and to encourage a distribution of population or mode of land utilization that will facilitate the economical and adequate provisions of transportation, roads, water supply, drainage, sanitation, education, recreation or other public requirements. The regulations are intended to preserve and protect existing property uses and values against adverse or unharmonious adjacent uses by zoning land outside the corporate boundaries of the city but not to exceed three miles from the city limits.
(1992 Code, App. C, § 1.02) (Ord. 20-02, passed 3-18-2002; Ord. 94-17, passed 9-26-2017)