Town Center zoning gets final OK

The Daily Inter Lake

The Kalispell City Council tied up some bureaucratic loose ends Monday on Glacier Town Center, giving final approval to the project's zoning and zoning mitigation measures.

Glacier Town Center developer Chad Wolford hopes to break ground on the shopping complex this summer and have it finished in late 2009 or early 2010.

The council voted 7-1 Monday for the zoning and zoning mitigation.

On Jan. 22, the council annexed 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 include a 577,000-square-foot outdoors shopping complex anchored by three stores of roughly 100,000 square feet each.

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

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

Kenyon dissented again on Monday. Gabriel was absent on Monday.