A Columbia Falls RV park is seeking approval from Flathead County to expand its operation.

The LaSalle RV Park is requesting a preliminary plat to create 32 RV spaces within its existing park located south of Columbia Falls on U.S. 2.

The request is among seven agenda items set to go before the county planning board on Wednesday. The planning board meets at 6 p.m. in the second floor conference room of the South Campus Building at 40 11th St. W. in Kalispell.

Recommendations from the planning board regarding the requests are forwarded to the Flathead County Commissioners for final consideration.

The LaSalle RV park includes 52 campsites, along with an existing house and shop. The proposed expansion would create 32 new spaces by replacing 11 existing spaces and eight tent spaces and adding just over a half-acre of open space.

The existing road in the park will be expanded for the new spaces created.

Trumbull Creek flows through the westernmost portion of the property. Floodplain regulations allow RV spaces in the floodplain.

According to the staff report, a portion of the property is designated as a wetland and the park will be required to delineate the extent of the wetland and prove that the RV spaces do not fall within the boundaries of the delineated wetland.

ALSO ON the agenda is a proposal for a preliminary plat request from Will MacDonald for The Homestead-Chinook Ridge, a 27-unit residential condominium subdivision near Whitefish. Access to the subdivision would be from Mountain Home Road and a new internal subdivision road via Star Meadows Road.

The property, which is forested and currently contains two cabins, is about 47 acres in size.

The subdivision would contain 37.81 acres of common area and open space. The condos would be served by a public water system and multi-user septic systems.

The owner of the property does not currently have plans to develop the adjoining property beyond an existing clubhouse in the near future, according to the application. When feasible, the owner will determine what future development might look like on the property.

THE PLANNING board will consider five other requests at the meeting.

• A zone change request from Josh Lenderman at Flathead Geomatics, on behalf of EAB Holdings, LLC for property within the Blanchard Lake Zoning District. The proposal would change zoning on 15 acres of land at 161 Vintage Way near Whitefish from AG-20 to SAG-5.

• A request from Bluemoon Refinery, LLC with technical assistance from Sands Surveying for preliminary plat approval of Bluemoon Estates Subdivision, a proposal to create five residential lots on 25 acres. The property is located at 1587 W. Springcreek Road, Kalispell.

• A zone change request from Lori Lerner, with technical assistance from Sands Surveying, Inc., for about 10 acres at 7180 U.S. 2 near Columbia Falls from SAG-10 to SAG-5.

• A request from Mont and Amanda Peters for a preliminary plat for a residential resubdivision to create 2 lots on almost 60 acres at 1590 Smith Lake Road.

• A request from Richard Jackson Family LLC to rezone four parcels of land on Stageline Drive from SAG-10 to SAG-5. The total acreage is about 40 acres.

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