Final reading tonight

| February 4, 2008 1:00 AM

The Daily Inter Lake

Some bureaucratic loose ends are expected to be tied up tonight on Glacier Town Center.

The Kalispell City Council is scheduled to vote on second readings on the project's zoning and zoning mitigation measures.

Second readings typically follow the same votes as first readings, which is when issues typically are most strongly debated.

On Jan. 22, the council voted to annex the 485-acre site east of U.S. 93 and north of West Reserve Drive.

It also approved plans for the project's first phase, which is 191 acres holding 37 lots on the site's west side.

That 191-acre area will hold a roughly 577,000-square-foot outdoors shopping complex anchored by three yet-to-be-announced stores of roughly 100,000 square feet each. One lot is to be set aside for a community center. Other commercial buildings and 632 homes are planned for later phases

Also on Jan. 22, the council gave preliminary approval on a vote of 7-0 to a mix of business and residential zoning for the site. It also gave preliminary approval on a 6-1 vote on some zoning mitigation. Council Member Randy Kenyon dissented on that vote.

Council members Jim Atkinson and Kari Gabriel were absent Jan. 22.

Those two preliminary votes are up for second and final votes today.

Also at 7 p.m. today, the council is scheduled to:

. Vote on whether to approve standards for new or expanding businesses to receive financial incentives from the city.

. Vote on whether to sign agreements with the state for it to repave U.S. 93 between Grandview Drive and Ponderosa Lane, and to repave Meridian Road between Seventh Street West and U.S. 2 this year. No city funds will be used.

. Vote on whether to set a Feb. 19 public hearing on the city's proposed updated transportation plan.

. Discuss in a workshop session, at which no votes are legally allowed, whether to create a water-conservation plan.

A memo from Council Member Bob Hafferman said such a plan should forecast water consumption, find ways to conserve irrigation water, and call for new landscaping approaches.