Board votes to deny recommendation for South Fork Addition
HEIDI DESCH | Hagadone News Network | UPDATED 18 years, 12 months AGO
Heidi Desch is features editor and covers Flathead County for the Daily Inter Lake. She previously served as managing editor of the Whitefish Pilot, spending 10 years at the newspaper and earning honors as best weekly newspaper in Montana. She was a reporter for the Hungry Horse News and has served as interim editor for The Western News and Bigfork Eagle. She is a graduate of the University of Montana. She can be reached at [email protected] or 406-758-4421. | December 22, 2006 10:00 PM
Hungry Horse News
The Flathead County Planning Board voted to deny recommendation for the South Fork Addition to Hungry Horse Wednesday.
The vote was 8-1. Chairman Jeff Larsen was the sole vote in favor of the subdivision.
Hungry Horse Development Partners and Stephan Byrd submitted an application for the project to the county in August.
The project is set on about 90 acres of land near Canyon Elementary School, which the developers purchased from the Forest Service via online auction for $2.38 million.
It could potentially add about 900 housing units to the town. According to the 2000 census, the population of Hungry Horse was 934 residents.
The project calls for building 34 multi-family structures with 401 units in phase one. In phase two 215 units are planned in single and multi-family lots or structures. Planned for phase three is a total of 289 dwelling units.
County planning staff gave a negative endorsement of the project citing negative impacts on area schools and traffic as potential problems.
A standing room only crowd came to hear the developer's proposal Wednesday.
Residents spoke out against the plan, citing concerns over the impacts, including strain on emergency services, high density of the project and an already busy U.S. Highway 2 through Bad Rock Canyon.
The project will now go before the County Commissioners, likely in February.
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