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Residents press Columbia Falls council over scale, tree loss and outreach for Gateway Safety & Mobility project
Summary
At a public hearing, residents told the Columbia Falls City Council the Gateway Safety & Mobility plan for Thirteenth Street is too large for a residential corridor, risks mature trees and lacked direct outreach; city staff said easements and design options remain under review and that tree-planting is not guaranteed one-for-one.
Residents attending a Columbia Falls City Council meeting urged changes to the Columbia Falls Gateway Safety and Mobility project, criticizing its scale on residential Thirteenth Street, potential removal of mature trees and what several called insufficient direct outreach from project communicators.
“My concerns of this project, though, is the scale, location, and transparency of it,” said Andy Zimmerman, a resident who reviewed the plan’s cross-section and said it shows multiple travel and buffer lanes on a residential street. Other residents described the plan as replacing significant green space with rock and concrete and asked why…
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