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Sweetgrass PUD amendment reduces city‑maintained park acreage; neighbors and committee question oversight and access
Summary
A Sweetgrass PUD amendment would leave 45 acres for city maintenance and allow about 15–20 acres of the park parcel to be privately developed or maintained; the planning commission recommended approval but the public service committee failed to forward a recommendation after residents said the change weakens public oversight.
Planning staff told the committee the Sweetgrass PUD amendment would keep the master‑plan park, its location and general size but reduce the acreage that the city is required to develop and maintain from roughly 65–70 acres to about 45 acres. The remaining 15–20 acres would be available for private development for recreational uses or maintained by the developer or homeowners association.
Connor White of Planning and Development said the change ‘‘does not reduce the…
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