A scaled-back housing development planned on the east side of Whitefish tops a heavy agenda for the Whitefish City-County Planning Board on Thursday.

In addition to two public hearings on the 2nd Street Apartments to consider a zone change and planned-unit development overlay for the project, Ryan Zinke’s proposed bed and breakfast inn on West Second Street is back on the agenda.

Another public hearing will consider a major expansion to the Wave Aquatic and Fitness Center.

Developers Sean Averill and William MacDonald of Community Infill Partners earlier this year proposed a 174-unit housing project in fields north of the intersection of East Second Street and Armory Road. The original plan included 164 apartments, nine condominiums and an existing home on the property.

Because of neighborhood concerns about the density, noise, traffic and other impacts, the Planning Board in March tabled decisions on the zone change and overlay, directing the developers to conduct a neighborhood meeting to work through the issues. That meeting was held April 24 and included a walking tour of the site.

Specifically, the board asked for further input on management of the apartments, security, lighting, a planned clubhouse, parking, design elements, protection of larger trees and slope of the sidewalk and pedestrian paths.

Averill and MacDonald have revised the project and now are proposing 150 units, including 112 apartments, nine attached condos and 29 single-family detached residences. The dwelling units per acre has dropped from 7.31 to 6.31.

The new plan places the multifamily housing in the center of the project and locates the homes along the perimeter of the property. There is a loop road for the majority of the development that connects to East Second Street in two places and one dead-end road.

The affordable-housing component is reduced to 15 rental units since the total density is reduced, but is still 10 percent of the development.

The project is no longer requesting a deviation from the off-street parking standards or the public street standards to install a sidewalk on one side of the street. Finally, the project will be developed in four phases, not five phases as originally proposed.

The city planning staff is recommending approval of the revised project, subject to 19 conditions placed on the development.

ZINKE IS asking for a conditional-use permit to operate the Snowfrog Inn bed-and-breakfast at 409 W. Second St. He initially had proposed a microbrewery across the street from the bed-and-breakfast inn.

The Planning Board recommended approval of the joint project, but Zinke pulled his application last December amid opposition from neighbors who disapproved of commercial development in the largely residential area, and a city recommendation to table the project until a corridor study can be completed.

Now Zinke is back with an application for just the inn, planned in a building that resembles a historic carriage house. The inn would offer six rooms for rent and a manager would live on-site.

The project complies with the Whitefish growth policy’s high-density residential designation for that area. The city planning staff has recommended approval of the conditional-use permit.

THE WAVE is seeking a conditional-use permit to add a 9,200-square-foot addition to the southwest end of its existing facility on Baker Avenue. The expansion would accommodate a reorganization of the locker rooms, day-care center, party rooms and aerobic room.

The Wave is required to get the permit because of the city’s big-box standards that require a conditional-use permit for all new structures with a building footprint of 15,000 square feet or greater.

The meeting begins at 6 p.m. Thursday at Whitefish City Hall.