The comprehensive plan shall be for the purpose of protecting and guiding the physical, social, economic, and environmental development of the county; to protect the tax base; 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; to lessen governmental expenditure; and to conserve and develop natural resources.
S.D. Codified Laws § 11-2-12
Purposes of comprehensive county plan
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Schafer v. Deuel County Board of Commissioners (2006)
Most recently applied in Ehlebracht v. Deuel Cnty. Pln. Comm'n and Crowned Ridge Wind II, LLC (March 2022)
Source: SL 1941, ch 216, § 3; SDC Supp 1960, § 12.20A03; SL 1967, ch 20, § 2; SL 1975, ch 113, § 6.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: South Dakota Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain South Dakota statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.