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Host raises neighborhood concerns over Chestnut Street development, questions UM Foundation land sale
Summary
During a public conversation in Missoula, host McCarty Coyle criticized a new housing project at Chestnut Street and First Street as out of scale with the neighborhood and called attention to a proposed University of Montana Foundation sale of nearly 500 acres that he said warrants local scrutiny.
McCarty Coyle, host of a public conversation program in Missoula, said Thursday that a recently approved housing project at the foot of Chestnut Street and First Street appears out of scale with the nearby neighborhood and McCormick Park.
"There's a monstrosity that seems to be rising up at the foot of Chestnut Street, and McCormick Park," Coyle said, describing the building and saying it appears "totally out of proportion" to what residents had expected after the city planning and council process.
The complaint referred to last year’s Parkside townhouse hearings, in which Coyle said roughly 40 people had spoken against elements of the development. He read a 1992 letter from the builders — signed by Tom Deboni and Jack Meyer and…
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