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Board recommends removal of expired PUD overlays

by Daniel McKay
Whitefish Pilot | September 26, 2017 5:15 PM

The Whitefish Planning Board on Thursday recommended the removal of two separate expired planned unit development overlays for Lookout Ridge and Coldwater Basin.

The board voted unanimously on both items.

The PUD for Lookout Ridge expired in June, and the city called rezoning the 12 parcels of land a “housekeeping matter.” The city is looking to revert the property back to its original zoning — agricultural and low-density resort residential.

Lookout Ridge, on about 228 acres, is located along Big Mountain Road and has remained undeveloped. The original plan for the development north of Iron Horse was to include 75 lots and 131 units.

The troubled subdivision has been given several extensions after it was initially approved in 2007.

A massive landslide in 2011 scratched a 1,000 foot scar into a hillside on Lookout Ridge and raised questions about soil stability on the property. Lookout Ridge went through foreclosure in 2014 and Whitefish Credit Union subsequently secured the property title and asked the city for the most recent extension to develop the subdivision.

The property owners are now listed as McMahon Real Estate IV LP of Westlake, Texas, and Stillwater Corporation of Kalispell.

The city has also requested the removal of an expired PUD for Coldwater Basin on Big Mountain Road. Coldwater Basin, the 27-acre undeveloped property west of Iron Horse, was first approved in 2007. The 50-lot project expired in June 2013.

The property would now be zoned one-family limited residential district.

The owner of the property is listed as Glacier Ranch Holdings LLC, of Bristol, Tennessee.

City Council will review both items at its Oct. 2 meeting at City Hall.