01-12-10AGENDA
KALISPELL CITY PLANNING BOARD AND ZONING COMMISSION
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12, 2010
The regular meeting of the Kalispell City Planning Board and Zoning Commission will be held on
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 beginning at 7:00 p.m. in the Kalispell City Council Chambers, Kalispell
City Hall, 201 1st Avenue East, Kalispell, Montana.
The Agenda for the meeting will be:
A. Call to Order and Roll Call
B. Approval of Minutes of December 8, 2009.
C. Hear the Public - The public may comment on any matter on the agenda or not on the agenda,
except the public hearing item listed immediately below.
D. Public Hearing:
In addition, the Kalispell City Planning Board and Zoning Commission will hold a public hearing on
the following agenda item. Following the hearing and board discussion, the board may make its
recommendations to the Kalispell City Council for final action:
A request by the City of Kalispell for a zoning text amendment. The amendment can be
characterized as an update of the ordinance as a whole. The update is a fine-tuning to make the
document more user-friendly and to better reflect the City as it looks today. The update has
included efforts to (a) eliminate ambiguities and outdated terms; (b) consolidate the RA-2 with
the RA-3 multi -family zones and the B-2 with the B-3 business zones; (c) streamline and
standardize property development standards; (d) review the intents of each zone and adjust uses
accordingly; (e) update the definitions section to reflect current terms and uses; (fl provide a
better connection between the zoning ordinance and the growth policy; (g) provide a method to
allow minor administrative adjustments from some development standards; (h) modify the
administrative conditional use permit process; (i) amend parking regulations in the downtown
area by reducing the number of required spaces; and 0) make other minor modifications to
existing standards as necessary.
E. Old Business
F. New Business
1. 2010 Planning Board Work Program
G. Adjournment
Next work session: January 26, 2010.
Next regular meeting: February 9, 2010.