Kalispell City Council to take second look at homeless shelter’s permit

Kalispell City Council moved Monday to review the Flathead Warming Center’s conditional use permit at a forthcoming work session.

Councilor Chad Graham requested the measure during discussion of the municipality’s homeless residents at the tail end of Council’s April 1 meeting. Citing conversations with business owners and residents near the North Meridian Road overnight homeless shelter, Graham asked his colleagues to investigate complaints about the low-barrier facility and its patrons. 

There is a new normal in the neighborhood, he said and that includes “things like being spit on in the face, loitering in front of businesses and on sidewalks, screaming, threatening actions, pounding on doors and windows, feces on front doorsteps of homes and businesses, sleeping on property, escorting customers to and from their front door at times and many other unacceptable things.”