Before the public hearing on Whitefish's proposed critical-areas ordinance even began Thursday night, Whitefish Planning Board Chairman Martin McGrew told the crowd more than 50 people that there was no way the hearing would conclude in one night.
At the Whitefish Planning Board meeting Thursday, board members looked at requests for a zone-change and a subdivision, held a public hearing on the contentious critical-areas ordinance and continued deliberation of the Whitefish growth policy filling the agenda.
After months of controversy and threats of possible litigation over abandoned roads and river access, Flathead County, wildlife preservation organizations and developer Dennis Carver have come to a solution they all can live with.
The Flathead County commissioners will vote on a resolution today to give the county the authority to immediately close any roads deemed to be health risks because of dust resulting from additional traffic diverted from a closed road.
After the second public hearing on developer Trevor Schaefer's Eagle's Crest subdivision proposal and seven hours of discussion, the Flathead County Planning Board voted to recommend approval of the application.
It has taken more than six months to get through the planning process, but the time has finally come for new Flathead County Subdivision Regulations to get to work.
When developer Ken Madden was looking for a water-treatment solution for his new 162-home subdivision in the Flathead Valley, he knew he had to do something different.
nching around the winding twists and turns of Going-to-the-Sun Road, a line of cars, bumper to bumper, slowly climbs to the summit of Logan Pass - and it's only 8 a.m.