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ShelterWF and citizens press council to keep mixed-use in growth policy, call for clearer public participation
Summary
ShelterWF and Citizens for a Better Flathead urged the council to preserve mixed-use language in the transportation element and to restore clearer, more open public participation in the growth-policy update, citing the Montana Land Use Act and requesting staff post comments and meet with advocates.
Speakers representing community groups told the council they want the growth-policy update to prioritize multimodal transportation and preserve mixed-use zoning language, and they urged clearer public participation procedures.
Keegan Siebenaler, executive director of ShelterWF, said downtown business interests urged removing mixed-use from the transportation element and warned that doing so would undermine efforts to make Whitefish more walkable and multimodal. "If we want Whitefish to be a…
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