Commissioners change zoning on Timberwolf Subdivision
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POLSON — The Polson City Commissioners voted to change the zoning on the 38-lot Timberwolf Estates Subdivision Condominiums from low density condominiums with residential resort overlay to mixed-use residential, which means townhouses and single-family homes, with residential resort overlay.
Residential resort overlay authorizes residents to put in a tennis court or a swimming pool, etc.
According to Dennis Duty, representative for S and S Development who plans the development, all 12 current owners approve the change. He said one of the main reasons for the request is that it’s hard for prospective buyers to get financing for condominiums. The zone change would allow all the homes to be converted back into single homes.
Jules Clavadetscher, chair of the Polson Redevelopment Agency, reviewed the PRA’s activities for the commissioners. The PRA contacted Montana Rail Link about the property that runs parallel and south of Seventh Avenue East. The property is contaminated, and MRL is cleaning up the site, working in conjunction with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.
The PRA also is investigating the old Gambles building and is awaiting a commercial appraisal. The PRA recommended the city commission use $85,000 in Tax Increment Funds to fund a walkway through Sacajawea Park, along the shoreline up to the seawall. BenErica LLC, the company which owns the Salish, will add to the path near the dock.
This section of the path will be completed this summer, and there are plans to continue the trail to link Riverside Park, Sacajawea Park and Salish Point Park in the future.
In other business, Paul Montgomery from Anderson-Montgomery Consulting Engineers in Helena presented an updated preliminary engineer’s report and environmental assessment. The commissioners passed motions to approve Resolution 1024, accepting the report; Resolution 1025, which states that a 2012 water project is a manageable environmental risk and is eligible to be declared exempt from further environmental review; and Resolution 1026, authorizing Crossett and Anderson-Montgomery to submit the 2012 TSEP application.
After commission and public comments asking for the commission to take more time to review it, the first reading of Ordinance 661, a revision of Ordinance 624 regarding impact fees on new development was also passed.
The next city commission meeting will be held May 7 at 7 p.m.
