Flathead Valley Land Use Planning Brief

Lakeside neighbors petition for their own zoning district, Whitefish turns down micro lot zoning, and Kalispell planners take up fourplexes.

Whitefish drops its push to cap downtown buildings at 45 feet, its council takes up a new micro lot zoning district, and Kalispell votes on a $10.4 million garage.

Columbia Falls’ 421-home Teakettle Heights breaks ground, Whitefish reworks Vision Whitefish 2045, and Kalispell weighs land for affordable housing.

Flathead County adopts a $209 million budget that funds its new jail, the Lakeside water board leases water to a 350-home resort near Blacktail Mountain, and Kalispell picks a consultant for its housing study.

Whitefish’s planning commission advances a plan to protect downtown from 60-foot buildings, all three city councils adopt their FY2027 budgets, and the city funds two more Habitat townhomes.