Opinion ID: 901532
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Heading: 2(d Landowners Standing to Assert the Setback Restriction.

Text: [¶ 37.] Two issues of standing have been presented; does a landowner have standing to object to the taking when: (i) the pipeline will cross the landowner's real property, but the landowner (W.Buse) has no dwelling or other building within 250 feet of the pipeline and (ii) a landowner (Seeba) has a dwelling or other building located within 250 feet of the pipeline, but the pipeline is located on the land of a neighbor. The circuit court concluded that standing existed in both situations. [¶ 38.] Whether a party has standing is a legal conclusion, which we review under the de novo standard. H & W Contracting, L.L.C. v. City of Watertown, 2001 SD 107, ¶ 9, 633 N.W.2d 167, 171. In general, standing is established if a party shows that he [or she] personally has suffered some actual or threatened injury as a result of the putatively illegal conduct of the defendant. Id. (citing Agar School Dist. No. 58-1 v. McGee, 527 N.W.2d 282, 284 (S.D.1995) (quoting Parsons v. South Dakota Lottery Comm'n, 504 N.W.2d 593, 595 (S.D.1993))). Therefore, to have standing these parties must show some actual or threatened injury that is caused by Lewis & Clark's proposed pipeline route.