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Resident urges city action after repeated late-night burnouts at 1700 First Avenue West parking lot
Summary
A Kalispell resident told council that a newly built parking lot at 1700 First Avenue West has been the site of recurring late-night burnouts, noise and abandoned vehicles, and that nearby mobile-home residents are directly affected. The resident asked the city to investigate; staff noted a tentative May 12 workshop on the parking lot.
At the April 21 City of Kalispell meeting, resident Dale Bowles addressed council during the public-comment period about repeated late-night vehicle burnouts, noise and hit-and-run behavior at the parking lot at 1700 First Avenue West.
Bowles told council he and his wife have witnessed multiple incidents, including one he described as a truck doing a "smoky burnout over a hundred feet at 11:30 p.m. on Sunday night, April thirteenth." He said trucks sometimes park with loud diesel engines running close to mobile-home units, and that residents there sleep within about 15 feet of the adjacent fence. "They flee and the police have no way to catch them because they do it and then they run," Bowles said, describing an ongoing pattern that has left vehicles abandoned after parties and created a persistent noise problem.
Bowles said he had exchanged emails with staff and appreciated a tentative May 12 workshop date to discuss the parking-lot concerns. He asked the council to investigate and to take steps to protect the mobile-home residents living next to the lot.
Mayor Mark Johnson closed public comment with no other speakers on the topic. The city manager later confirmed in his report that the council will take up a parking-lot discussion at a May 12 workshop.
