Tronstad Road Proposal & Kalispell City Growth Policy Public Comment from Bonnie and Carl RieckmannAimee Brunckhorst
From: Carl Rieckmann <books2sell@hotmail.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 21, 2024 11:00 AM
To: Kalispell Meetings Public Comment
Subject: EXTERNAL Tronstad Road Proposal & Kalispell City Growth Policy
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May 20, 2024
Kalispell City Council
Dear Folks:
There has been way too much willy-nilly development in Kalispell and Flathead County of recent vintage. The
huge apartment complex at Center Street and Fifth is a prime example. Where's the parking for that many
units? What about the impacts on the water and sewer systems? What about the traffic? And apparently it is
in financial trouble. All from too much speculation and who knows what other influences, kosher or not.
Now there are reports of the council mulling whether to include 110 acres on Tronstad Road in your Kalispell
City Growth Policy. Those of us who live in the Reserve Drive and Whitefish Stage Road area are clogged
already by the increase in traffic coming from the north because of the Rose Crossing and Tronstad Road cut-
overs from U.S. 93. The state supposedly is going to attempt some work on Reserve sometime in the next few
years (IF the funding actually comes available), but it still hasn't done anything to alleviate the logjam at the
Reserve/Whitefish Stage intersection (dedicated four-way lights as are used at Reserve and U.S. 93 would
help). Please don't encourage more foolishness on Tronstad like the messes at Center and Fifth and
elsewhere.
The magic of the Flathead Valley is its great outdoors and rural beauty. Encouraging more development that
creates increased negative impacts on traffic, water and sewer infrastructure, crime, the valley's charm, etc., is
like cutting one's own throat. Don't do it.
Sincerely,
Bonny and Carl Rieckmann
2355 N. Mission Drive
Kalispell, MT 59901