Council set to vote on annexation request

The Daily Inter Lake

The Kalispell City Council will vote at today's 7 p.m. meeting on whether to annex the 207-acre Siderius Commons site into southern Kalispell.

The Siderius Family Limited Partnership proposes to build 535 homes and a neighborhood-hub business district.

The site is west of U.S. 93 South with Cemetery Road on the north and Ashley Meadows Road on the south.

Siderius Commons expects to set up a community land trust on part of the site to decrease the cost of housing.

In November, the council annexed nine business-oriented tracts owned by Gardner Investments totaling almost 82 acres along U.S. 93 South between Lower Valley Road and Snowline Lane - literally across the road from Siderius Commons.

The Siderius and Gardner sites would extend Kalispell to within a mile of Old School Station, a 55-acre island of incorporated land surrounded by rural Flathead County.