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Commission approves Whiskey District preliminary plat and grants floodplain variance with connector-trail condition
Summary
The Gallatin County Commission approved a preliminary plat for the Whiskey District condominium subdivision and a variance allowing five buildings to remain inside the 100-year floodplain, adding a requirement that the developer dedicate a connector trail through the park/open-space lots to the north along Dry Creek.
The Gallatin County Commission on Oct. 28 approved the Whiskey District condominium preliminary plat and granted a variance to allow five existing buildings whose lowest floor elevations fall short of the county's two-foot freeboard requirement in the 100-year floodplain.
Christopher Scott, senior planner with Gallatin County Planning, told commissioners the 40.33-acre site contains 71 residential units in 19 buildings and that the applicant had satisfied the county's open-space requirement (20% or 8.07 acres) by dedicating 8.16 acres of open space and parkland. Scott said staff's flood-hazard evaluation showed most mapped flood depths on the site are shallow (generally less than one foot) and that five structures do not meet the two-foot freeboard standard but that the planning board nonetheless recommended…
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