So the City of Crooks borders the Smithfield project. Smithfield convinced a majority of their city council and Mayor to support de-annexing land so the City of Sioux Falls could annex the land for Smithfield keeping the project all within the city limits of one city. The citizens of Crooks were NOT willing to give up the property tax revenue and sales tax revenue generated in their portion of the project, so they took out a petition to stop the…
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