Bigfork hotel permit tabled by Board of Adjustment

The Flathead County Board of Adjustment unanimously voted to table Bigfork Hotel Group’s request for a conditional use permit to allow for a 64-room hotel in the Fort development north of Bigfork during its May 7 meeting.

The proposed Miroctel Inn and Suites by Wyndham would be three stories tall, sitting in a B-3 Community Business zone. It is surrounded by other B-3 zoning, save for some I-1 industrial zoning to the north and east. The Fort development, designed as a commercial subdivision, remains largely undeveloped. 

Previously, the Bigfork Land Use Advisory Committee voted to recommend denial of the proposal. Reasons for denial, revisited in the Board of Adjustment meeting on Tuesday, included concerns about increased traffic, and water and sewer capacity.