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Residents urge pesticide‑free parks and keeping public land for housing; neighbors raise park‑size and traffic concerns
Summary
Several Missoula residents urged the council to phase out pesticides on city playing fields, keep unsold city land in a land trust for affordable housing, and expressed concern that a proposed park would be too small and increase traffic near existing daycares.
Multiple Missoula residents used the public‑comment period to press the council on parks, city land and neighborhood impacts from proposed developments.
Rebecca Ballentine (Ward 3 resident) opened the evening’s public‑comment block urging the city to make all municipal parks and playing fields “organic pesticide‑free land care.” She said her family spends hours in parks and on trails and told council members children are particularly vulnerable to pesticide exposure, which she said is linked to “cancers, tumors, asthma, ADHD, developmental…
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