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Armory Road project draws homeowners—oncerns over stormwater, erosion and bridge maintenance
Summary
Multiple Armory Road residents told the council they support sidewalks and safety improvements but worry the project—ngineered stormwater outfall could raise flood risk, cause erosion on clay slopes and leave homeowners with a failing bridge; neighbors asked the city to assume maintenance of the bridge/path or to limit city involvement to the pathway.
Several neighbors near Armory Road told the Whitefish City Council on April 20 they back the Armory Road improvement project but raised specific concerns about stormwater impacts, stream-bank erosion and long-term maintenance of a failing bridge.
"The storm water could up the hundred-year flood plane," said Andy Best, president of the Willowbrook Homeowners Association, raising the possibility that increased flows could change flood-insurance exposure for nearby homeowners. Best said the HOA had been negotiating aesthetics for an outfall structure with the engineers and…
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