May 13 AgendaAGENDA KALISPELL CITY PLANNING COMMISSION TUESDAY, MAY 13, 2025
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The regular meeting and work session of the Kalispell City Planning Commission is scheduled for Tuesday,
May 13, 2025, beginning at 6:00 PM in the Kalispell City Council Chambers, Kalispell City Hall, 201 First Avenue East, Kalispell.
The agenda for the meeting will be:
A.Call to Order and Roll Call
B.Election of Officers
C.Approval of Minutes of April 8, 2025
D.Hear the Public – The public may comment on any matter on the agenda or not on the agenda. (Commentsare typically held to 3 minutes or less.)
E.Old Business
F.New Business
G.Adjournment
The planning commission will hold a work sessions on the item listed below:
1.File #KA-25-03; KPUD-25-02; and KPP-25-02 – Colton Behr, has submitted applications for AndersonRanch, including requests for annexation, initial zoning of R-3 (Residential) with a Planned UnitDevelopment (“PUD”) overlay and preliminary plat approval for 166 residential lots on approximately
42.5 acres, including lots, roads, and common areas. The majority of the subject property was previously
annexed and this petition would annex the remaining 11.7 acres of the tract. The PUD is an amendmentof the overall Gardner-Anderson Ranch PUD approved in 2024, which consisted of 94.4 acres with light-industrial/commercial and residential components. This PUD amendment covers the residentialcomponent in the eastern portion of the overall PUD. The property is located on Demersville Road to the
west of Bar H Drive and can be described as a tract of land situated, lying and being in the southeast
quarter of the northwest quarter, and in the southwest quarter, all of Section 28, Township 28 North, Range21 West, P.M.M., Flathead County, Montana, and more particularly described as follows to wit: Tract 1of Certificate of Survey No. 22969 (records of Flathead County, Montana) and containing 42.500 acres,subject to and together with all appurtenant easements of record.
2.In the last legislative session, the Montana Legislature passed Senate Bill 382, which created the newMontana Land Use Planning Act. Under the Act, for cities such as Kalispell, the current growth policy,subdivision regulations, and zoning regulations are largely replaced with a new land use planningparadigm. The concept is that a land use plan is established with extensive public input. The plan then
becomes a guiding document for land use decisions, many of which, such as subdivisions, become
administrative rather than conducted through a public hearing process. The opportunity for the public to be engaged comes with the process establishing the plan and regulations, not with review of a site-specific project.
This work session is the seventh in a series the Planning Commission will hold in the coming months. It
is intended that the focus of this work session will be a discussion of portions of the preliminary draft land use plan. Future work sessions will be noticed and a formal hearing will be held before the Commission forwards a recommendation to the City Council for its action.
Next Regular Meeting: Tuesday, June 10, 2025 PARTICIPATION
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