County planning board votes against KM Ranch proposal

Agreeing with neighbors that a large subdivision doesn’t fit the character of the neighborhood, the Flathead County Planning Board on Wednesday put a negative recommendation on a proposal that could add housing and commercial development along KM Ranch Road.

Planning board members echoed statements made by the public at a previous meeting saying a requested zone change for 155 acres just north of the county landfill doesn’t fit with the surrounding zoning and a new subdivision would increase traffic at an already dangerous area where KM Ranch intersects with U...