12-19-13 Site Review MinutesSITE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW COMMITTEE SUMMARY
Thursday, December 19, 2013
Lower Level Conference Room
201 First Avenue East
ATTENDING:
Jeff Clawson, Building Official Mark Crowley, Construction Manager
Tom Jentz, Planning & Building Director Kevin LeClair, Senior Planner
Rick Parker, Bldg. Dept. Inspector Wade Rademacher, Police Captain
Rebekah Wargo, Asst. Civil Engineer P.J. Sorensen, Chairman
Kathy Nelson, Recording Secretary
GUESTS: James Freyholtz, Montana Department of Transportation
HEAR THE PUBLIC: None.
PERFORMANCE BOND REMINDERS: None.
OLD BUSINESS: Ulta — 155 Treeline; new retail cosmetic store. This will be a 10,000 sq. ft.
building. Crowley noted that they need a handicapped ramp to go from the handicapped parking
spaces to the buildings (The Shops) next to Cabela's. This is approved through Site Review with the
Public Works' condition of the ADA ramp requirement in front of every door.
NEW BUSINESS: None.
PLANNING OFFICE ITEMS — The Planning Board will continue to work on the Growth Policy
in January.
OTHER BUSINESS: Starbucks — Main and Center, in the corner of the Kalispell Center Mall
parking lot, in front of the hotel. This will be a 1,920 sq. ft. building. They have a 7-foot landscape
buffer off of the sidewalk. Sorensen mentioned that the drawing seems to indicate that the property
line goes out into the actual street. This will go through subdivision review with a waiver of their
preliminary plat. They would need to come in for a Final Plat. They will need to create a parcel.
Their sidewalk should end somewhere that can be tied onto later. We have a bond to cover the
landscaping for this project and for a redesign of the mall entrance on First Avenue West. We will be
asking for a 3-foot fence or hedges along the drive-thru lane that is very close to the driving lane in
the street. The monument sign was also discussed.
The Rock — across from Kalispell Regional Medical Center. They will be adding 20,000 sq. ft. of
additional office space and a large convention facility for 210 people. They will probably need to go
through a PUD process to address their parking, as they have some easements that come across and
right now there are two properties in the parking to the south, so they need to deal with that in terms
of building. The convention center would require 210 parking spaces, but the hospital believes that
the people using the convention center will be employees that are already parked elsewhere.
Ashley Heights — Mr. Turner will need to help create a homeowners' association that will take care
of the underground stormwater maintenance and maintenance of the private park at Ashley Heights.
Jentz asked the committee about the 15-foot pedestrian right-of-way that has a 10-foot bike path in
the middle of it, that Mr. Turner put in at the wrong point and the trail encroaches on lot 20 to the
south by 15 feet. This path stops short of the Rails to Trails bike path that was put in after Ashley
Heights was started. There is about 1,000 sq. ft. of land, the zoning is R-2, and the lots are exactly
9,600 sq. ft. The committee agreed that we should require him to move it back onto the easement by
rebuilding it.
Northland Phase 4 — LeClair stated that a request for Final Plat approval will be coming in soon.
The meeting was adjourned at 10:25 a.m.
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