Council grants variance for ATV sales

The corner lot on which higbee's café once sat is soon to become a sales lot for recreational vehicles.

The Sundance City Council has granted a one-year variance that will allow the land, which is zoned as downtown business, to be used for this purpose.

Owners Darlene and Jason Coder have said they intend to display ATVs, motorcycles and seasonal equipment, promoting the Black Hills as a recreational destination in the process. The next door lot, which was until recently a real estate office, has already opened as Adventures 307, selling outdoors-inspired items and natural foods, and will also...