Now read this KELO-TV story from 12 years ago carefully;
City Hosts Open House For Eastside Corridor
Power problems didn’t draw a lot of attention Tuesday night, but planned pavement sure did Wednesday night. Sioux Falls city planners held an open house to give the public a chance to speak out on the proposed East side corridor.“That’s stupid!”
There was no holding back at the convention center. More than 120 people got up close and personal with city planners to talk about a four-lane loop connecting Interstate 29 and Interstate 90 on the east side of Sioux Falls.John Homan lives in the path of the latest plan at the corner of Minnesota Avenue and 85th street.“It feels like they’re building roads right up to the homestead.”
Homan’s not against growth, he just wants the city to preserve as much land as it can–including his.“I just feel like they’re taking an awful lot of our land and there’s other, better alternatives.”
The current East side corridor would go south of Interstate 90 along Highway 11, then cut diagonally to County Road 106 and then west to Interstate 29.
If you’re having trouble visualizing the project, maybe this will help; the proposed bypass will look a lot like Russell Street.
Check out the date (2001) and the name of the guy griping about the proximity to people’s homes and saying there are other better alternatives than 85th and Minnesota out there….it is none other than John Homan, as in the Homan family, son of Frank and Mary Homan, who own the land at 85th and Minnesota through Springdale Development LLC. Funny, no one was calling him a NIMBY back then for those remarks, but plenty of people are saying the same thing about the folks in this area now. Also, the story notes a “conservative population estimate” for Sioux Falls to be 185,000 people by 2025. I think we are already there in 2013. Pretty sure the ship has sailed for the southern flank of SD100.  Build it south along County Road 106, you know, the one that runs to Tea, via the multi-multi-million dollar over pass/underpass exchange designed to handle traffic for the next 30 years.
“Funny, no one was calling him a NIMBY back then for those remarks, but plenty of people are saying the same thing about the folks in this area now.”
That’s a pretty bold statement considering KELO didn’t even allow commenting on their website in 2001. I’m sure there were more than a few people who had names for Mr. Homan back then, and the actual path of SD100 has actually shifted somewhat… so the guy may have been right that the original path was ‘stupid’.
BTW the last estimate I saw indicated Sioux Falls was standing at just under 160,000 people. We probably have another 6-9 years before we officially hit 185k.
^Yep. 2012 population estimate is 159,908.
The state has already acquired ROW for the current route. Are you suggesting DL that the state waste the taxpayer dollars already spent on TWO DECADES of planning and land acquisition, just so three unemployed stay-at-home mom law-school grads can have their way? BTW SD 100 was “there first”. So was SD 115 (Minnesota Ave.) In fact – the state (as a corporate “person”) was there first.
“just so three unemployed stay-at-home mom law-school grads can have their way?”
Dana is currently employed by Lynn, Jackson, Shultz & Lebrun, P.C., as far as I can tell, unless they just let her lease a phone# and email address from them, which I think is highly unlikely.
So ruff ruff, what has being a stay-at-home mom got to do with this? Maybe we should say about you: “Don’t you have anything better to do than blog on here?” Just say’n…… Every body has their own life and if everybody was all the same, this would be a boring world.
I feel sorry for Ruf, he lives in a boring town where no one follows his zoning rules.
perhaps i’m wrong, but shouldn’t the point be that 12 years ago we knew something like walmart was coming? what did people think a 4 lane loop around sioux falls was going to be used for?