Speaking of government campgrounds, did you know South Dakota has a law prohibiting government from unfairly competing with private campgrounds?
SDCL 9-38-1 allows municipalities to construct and expand camping and tourist facilities if there is no existing private campground within fifteen miles of city limits. If there is such a private campground within fifteen miles, the municipality must get written approval from the owner of the private campground to put up a new city campground or expand an existing facility.
Boy, if that law covered state campgrounds, Governor Noem’s expansion of Custer State Park’s RV camping would have been a total non-starter.
This non-compete clause for city campgrounds comes to my attention thanks to District 20’s delegation. Mitchell’s Senator Joshua Klumb and Representative Lance Koth are proposing Senate Bill 100 to make government competition with private campgrounds a little easier. They would revise SDCL 9-38-1 from an absolute veto granted to every private campground owner to a one-third filibuster. Under SB 100, if two thirds of private campground owners within fifteen miles of town give their written approval, the municipal government may proceed with building or expanding a government camp.
Hmmm… should any of us radical elements be nervous that Republicans are trying to make it easier to build government camps?
SB 100 awaits the attention of Senate Local Government.
Would you have to be vaccinated?
Let’s see: Brookings owns a research park, the hospital, the liquor store, the water, the phone company, the power company, an entertainment venue, the golf course, it’s home to South Dakota’s largest public university, a federally subsidized cheese and dairy industry AND a city campground yet my home county sends Republicans to Pierre to make sure the pork keeps coming.
Larry is the liquor store still on the edge of town as it was when I was in college. Very bad placement although I did liberate a few bottles from there in my time. Except for that I always liked Brookings, still have my Nick’s hat, at least that’s privately owned. Nothing like a good grease burger. I went to USD but spent a huge amount of time in Brookings. They at least had a decent Art Museum and a barn bar just out of town with good music. I’m amazed it didn’t burn down and kill a couple hundred people.
@Mark – I too would leave Vermin and spend the night in Brookville on my way home to WadTown.
The girls there liked hippies because the s**t-kickers smelled like barn.
Good morning, Mark. The liquor store got moved into the
mawlmall completely on the other side of town and it’s likely that if my home state’s psychotic legislature legalizes cannabis for all adults Brookings would own the dispensary unless one of the tribal communities buys a parcel nearby and beats the town to it.If memory serves there is no private campground in Brookings County so if the Kurtz grandkids get the three years late reunion together this year it would be the first I’ve been there since 2015 for the last one and we’d stay in an Airbnb since we’re hosts on two properties here in New Mexico.