Board to discuss proposed business park
The proposed 10-lot Glacier International Business Park is the focus of a public hearing at the Flathead County Planning Board meeting on Wednesday.
Consideration of the business park was postponed from last month’s Planning Board meeting.
Bill Reddig is seeking preliminary plat approval of the commercial subdivision in the southwest corner of the intersection of Birch Grove Road and U.S. 2.
The 29.6-acre site half a mile southeast of the airport wraps around the west and south sides of Jagz restaurant. The site has frontage on U.S. 2 and Birch Grove Road.
The project was first approved in 2008 but the preliminary plat expired a couple of years ago.
There is a scenic corridor overlay on the property, which affects only off-premise billboard advertising and cellular tower placement, according to the Planning Office staff report. The property, a mixture of open fields and wooded land, otherwise is unzoned county land.
All of the lots would be served by an onsite drainfield and combination of individual and shared wells, along with an existing public water supply as approved by the state Department of Environmental Quality.
Separately, Eagle Creek is asking for a zone change from agricultural to suburban agricultural on 39.8 acres in the Blanchard Lake Zoning District, on Studebaker Lane. The change would reduce the minimum lot size from 20 to 10 acres.
Several text amendments to county zoning regulations are the focus of a third public hearing. The changes are aimed at improving the practicality of administering and enforcing the regulations, according to the Planning Office.
Among the proposed text amendments is the addition of cellular towers to the list of conditional uses as an administrative conditional use in the North Fork Zoning District. Another proposed change clarifies the use of public and private stables in agricultural and suburban agricultural zoning districts.
Following the business meeting, the board will hold a workshop to further discuss revisions to county zoning regulations.
The meeting begins at 6 p.m. in the second-floor conference room of the Earl Bennett Building, 1035 First Ave. W., Kalispell.