The Whitefish City Council will consider a scaled-back plan for a Marriott hotel during a public hearing on Tuesday.

Jordan Scott of Whitefish TP LLC, is asking for a conditional-use permit to build an 81-room hotel off U.S. 93 on a vacant parcel just north of Les Schwab Tires. Initially the hotel was planned closer to Mountain Mall.

 The building height has been reduced to the allowed 35 feet so a planned-unit development overlay is no longer being requested.

A conditional-use permit is required because the building footprint exceeds 15,000 square feet in the secondary business district.

The Marriott TownePlace Suites initially was proposed with 111 rooms. The developer reconfigured the design after the Planning Board recommended denial of the proposal.

This time around the Planning Board unanimously recommended approval.

TownePlace Suites is Marriott’s smallest hotel product and is geared to extended stays.

The council has a lengthy hearing agenda, including a proposal to spare the Depot Park building and lease it out for extra city revenue. The building currently houses the city’s Planning and Building and Parks and Recreation departments.

Whitefish’s Depot Park master plan calls for removing all existing structures within the park, but during discussion earlier this year the council mulled the idea of saving the building and leasing it out to bring in an estimated $35,000 to $40,000 in annual revenue.

The city bought the Depot Park property in 2008-09 for $3.8 million in two transactions using tax-increment fund revenue.

The former Depot Park Master Plan Committee met in April to consider the proposal, but did not reach a consensus about keeping the building.

In other public hearings the council will:

n Consider a conditional-use permit for 12 condominium cabins at 1325 and 1331 Nelson Lane.

n Consider rezoning 4.7 acres of land at 325 Haugen Heights Road from county rural residential to city estate residential zoning.

n Consider rezoning 0.11 acres of unaddressed land on Nelson Lane from county to city low-density resort residential zoning.

There will be a work session at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to review the city’s 2009 extension of services plan and discuss the next annexation effort. The regular meeting begins at 7:10 p.m.; both meetings are at the interim City Hall, 1005 Baker Ave.

Features editor Lynnette Hintze may be reached at 758-4421 or by email at lhintze@dailyinterlake.com.