Permit revocations conditional use permits Public Comment from Karlene Osorio-Khor Aimee Brunckhorst
From: K Khor <kkhor838@yahoo.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 23, 2025 9:48 AM
To: Kalispell Meetings Public Comment; Doug Russell
Cc: madamekarkosa@gmail.com
Subject: EXTERNAL Permit revocations conditional use permits
Dear City Council members and interim City Manager:
I read the Sunday editorial in the Daily Inter Lake regarding the proposed zoning revocation
process and conditional use permit ordinance.
I'm at a loss as to the business owners the author of the editorial spoke with regarding their
concerns about this proposed ordinance.
It is certainly not the opinion I am hearing from the business owners downtown and in the
community.
Many years ago, when I sat on the Kalispell Planning Board, I did some research on planning
boards, in our state and nationwide, on their bylaws and actions taken and the impact created
upon their communities.
Unfortunately, the planning director, at that time, did not allow the planning board to do a
work session on the materials I had gathered for our review and education. All of the materials
were set aside and were never discussed. This was very unfortunate and shortsighted.
If he had allowed discussion, he would have learned the proposal which you now have in front
of you as a zoning ordinance regarding revocation of conditional use permits et al is something
other communities have had in place for years .
His position was nothing really changes in planning. In truth, planning exist because of change.
To deny change is like sticking your head in the sand.
Some of the communities who already have passed a similar ordinance, demand the
conditional use permit once violated, be taken by the city to the District Court for revocation. It
actually is a statement written in to their ordinances. They identify the city's first step of
revocation upon cause will be a legal action the city files in District Court.
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This provides a third-party ( the judiciary ) to "prevent politics or emotional winds on part of a
city against a a conditional permit user" which was a fear and concern expressed in the Sunday
editorial.
I am concerned that the issue of the Warming Center will affect your judgment in the need for
the passage of this revocation process ordinance.
The Warming Center issue is settled. It's over. We cannot keep revisiting it as a vehicle to stop
the evolution and progress of planning for our community.
This revocation ordinance is a natural progression for growing communities which should have
been in place in our ordinances decades ago.
It is good to see and the development of this ordinance and I urge it passage.
Karlene Osorio-Khor
Manager La Lark Llc
Sent from my iPhone
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