Comment on Tronstad development Public Comment from Dominic ForbushAimee Brunckhorst
From: Dom .F <daforbush@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2024 4:38 PM
To: Kalispell Meetings Public Comment
Subject: EXTERNAL Comment on Tronstad development
To whom it may concern,
This is in regard to the proposed development off Tronstad Rd. I am extremely against this development
for the following three reasons:
1) affordable housing is the alleged motivation for the rezoning. However, vacant -yet -unaffordable
homes on similarly zoned land sit in the next lot West and plenty more in Silver Springs, 300m west
across the highway. Nothing in the proposed amendment mandates or controls the price of the
constructed houses: nothing about this will buffer affordable housing in the valley.
2) Single family zoning and construction is unsustainable and inefficient. 380 Single family homes, if
instead constructed as 380 family apartments + parking, would occupy 20% of the land area. This will
preserve the character and agricultural open spaces of our valley for as long as possible. It is the only
way to prevent the unsustainable and destructive suburban sprawl of Kalispell.
3) Tronstad cannot turn left on 93, and the light on Reserve and Whitefish stage is seriously inadequate
for the peak levels of traffic that exist already: without infrastructure improvements for which there is no
timeline, this will degrade the quality of life for surrounding residents.
The only beneficiaries of this re -zoning will be the special interest construction company who builds
here. One only need to look around the valley to see the extent to which this special interest has been
accomodated.
Dominic Forbush
Ph. D
Water Power Group
Sandia National Laboratories