Growth management is a comprehensive program to determine the types, locations, and phasing of land uses. Growth management also provides for economical provision of City services, by coordinating public facility improvements with private development.
For The City of Sioux Falls, the challenge is very clear: The community must be prepared to deal with the problems accompanying continued growth and change or lose the unique quality of life which the city now enjoys. The Comprehensive Development Plan is intended to provide the city with the tools it will need to respond to this challenge.
The Comprehensive Development Plan recognizes the ever-changing marketplace and the need to remain poised to meet those changes. Major new development opportunities may arise during the planning period, which were not foreseen during the development of the plan. In addition, major economic development or social changes may arise within the planning period.
The revised changes allow for a process to do comprehensive plan amendments. It sets forth eight criteria that should be reviewed when considering an amendment.
- text within the comprehensive plan;
- changing conditions;
- compatibility with neighborhood;
- impacts and extent to environment;
- warranted by an approved master plan;
- logical development pattern;
- any other adverse affects; and
- surrounding neighborhood impacts.
It requires an application and fee to be submitted to the Planning Department and public hearings at Planning Commission and City Council.
2015 Growth Management Plan - Complete Document
2015 Growth Management Plan (By Chapter:)
Growth Management in Sioux Falls
- On April 16, 2002, Jeffrey Schmitt, Assistant Director of Planning presented at the American Planners Association National Planning Conference in Chicago. The session was entitled "When Urban Growth Boundary is a Dirty Word", and Mr. Schmitt presented on the history of Growth Management in Sioux Falls.
- PowerPoint Presentation from the APA conference
