Here are some of the headlines from this past week in the Missoulian. To read the full stories, click the link on each headline:
Student athletes at the University of Montana donated their time and expertise on Friday to give a group of about 30 local special education kids a morning they won’t forget for a long time.
The Special Olympics team at the Hellgate Elementary School District in Missoula got to run drills with Griz football players and track and field athletes inside the giant new Grizzly Indoor Practice Facility, or “The Bubble” as it has come to be known, as part of a first-ever partnership.
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It was a frenzied hour-and-a-half of long-jumping, soccer penalty kicks, high-fives, laughing, running, smiling and picture-taking.
Jaden, a student at Hellgate Elementary, practices the long jump at the Grizzly Indoor Practice Facility on Friday.
The event is part of the Inclusive Sports Day program at Hellgate that allows disabled students to try something fun in the community every Friday. Sometimes it's swimming, sometimes it's bowling, but this week was one everyone was looking forward to.
“So, we are a (Special Olympics) Unified Champion School,” explained Hellgate superintendent Dr. Molly Blakely. “We collaborate with other Unified Champion Schools to make sure that our students with disabilities and our special ed students collaborate and integrate with typical kids throughout the school day. But also it’s really, really important to have those activities extend beyond the school day and the environment.”
— David Erickson, david.erickson@missoulian.com
The Missoula County commissioners delayed plans for a rural subdivision northwest of the Wye on Thursday, citing a need to see more data on water availability and the possibility of additional development in the area.
Fire Bucket Meadows minor subdivision would create five residential lots on 20 acres of land. Since the request is smaller than six properties, the subdivision review process has fewer regulations.
Property owner Dale Sparks, who currently lives on the property, said much of the land has been vacant for decades and would be a good place to add homes in the growing area.
"The purpose of the subdivision is for the surrounding neighbors and actually keeping them in mind," Sparks said, adding that the zoning could have allowed 10 parcels on the site. "... I think that good space in between houses and beautiful views of the area can support good neighbors."
— Griffen Smith, griffen.smith@missoulian.com
Several replacements to water mains in the city of Missoula will close streets over the next several weeks, with one main replacement closing parts of Toole Avenue starting on Friday.
The replacements are meant to improve the effectiveness of the city's water system, which has sections that are more than 100 years old and in need of improvements.
Traffic on Toole Avenue between Owen Street and Alder Street will be rerouted starting Friday, March 28, according to a press release from the city. The work is estimated to take one month to complete.
— Griffen Smith, griffen.smith@missoulian.com
Sentinel High School teacher and science department co-lead Lindsay Manzo will be going to Costa Rica this weekend with an Ecology Project International (EPI) teacher fellowship. She’ll return on April 5, hopefully with knowledge of how to apply EPI’s fieldwork lessons to her own classes in biology, wildlife biology and AP environmental science.
The eight-day EPI fellowship will take educators from across the country to Costa Rica to learn about sea turtle biology and tropical wildlife. They’ll visit the Caribbean beaches at night searching for leatherback sea turtle eggs, both to collect data and to move the eggs to hatcheries to keep them safe from poachers.
Sentinel teacher and science department co-lead Lindsay Manzo, pictured on Tuesday, March 25 at Sentinel High School in Missoula. Manzo will be going to Costa Rica with 13 other educators from around the country, from Massachusetts to Miami.
“I think I’m most excited about the fieldwork,” Manzo said this week ahead of her flight on Saturday.
EPI field experience coordinator Keri Geiser, who will be going on the trip, said the goal is not just to give teachers content and teaching tools to bring back to their classrooms, but also to send them back to their schools refreshed and excited about learning.
— Andy Tallman, andy.tallman@missoulian.com
The Missoula Redevelopment Agency’s board of commissioners on Thursday approved using $605,042 in Tax Increment Financing for public infrastructure improvements and site prep for a large new $13-million condominium building in downtown Missoula.
A developer is planning on constructing a four-story, 23-unit building at 322 Levasseur Street, not far from Kiwanis Park. The developer requested the Tax Increment Financing for demolishing an old, unsafe house on the site, public water main upgrades and public right-of-way improvements.
“The new water main will provide sufficient capacity to serve the proposed project, current residents, as well as future, higher density redevelopment in the area,” said city redevelopment project manager Michael Hicks in a memo to the board. “The alley, street and sidewalk improvements will manage stormwater and make the right-of-way safe for public use after water and electric work is completed. The project will also bring new housing supply to the market.”
— David Erickson, david.erickson@missoulian.com
A luxury resort in Missoula County will have access to a small private room in the new terminal of the Missoula Montana Airport, which officials said will be used for their guests, high-profile travelers and occasionally the public.
The Missoula Airport Board approved the three-year, $10,000 annual contract on Tuesday, which allows private resort Paws Up to use a roughly 500-square-foot room past security with a private bathroom, kitchen and seating area.
"The thought from the airport side was (it was) best use to have someone come in, furnish this, operate this as a private room of sorts to be used for clientele," said Tim Damrow, the deputy director of the airport, at a meeting on Tuesday. "The airport also wanted to retain some right to be able to use this."
— Griffen Smith, griffen.smith@missoulian.com
A man allegedly busted with 4 pounds of meth last year after a high-speed chase in Missoula County pleaded guilty Thursday to a federal drug distribution charge that carries a minimum 10 years in prison.
Jeremiah Travis Brooks, 21, was accused of being a passenger in a Cadillac that fled a traffic stop in Powell County on April 5, 2024. Missoula County officers located the car and chased it as the driver reached speeds over 100 mph, according to the offer of proof filed by federal prosecutors.
“The vehicle crashed after exiting the off-ramp near the interchange at Highway 93,” states the offer of proof, signed by Assistant U.S. Attorney Tim Racicot. The driver and passenger fled from the crashed vehicle and were eventually apprehended hours later, hiding in the Town Pump bathroom.”
— Sam Wilson, sam.wilson@missoulian.com
A co-founder and former publisher of the Bitterroot Star has been found guilty of negligent vehicular homicide while under the influence and negligent vehicular assault after a 2023 crash that killed a Darby woman and seriously injured her husband.
District Court Judge Jeffrey DaHood issued his verdict late Wednesday, a little over two weeks after concluding a bench trial for Michael Theo Howell.
Howell, 73, had been charged in the wake of a deadly crash on U.S. Highway 93 just south of Hamilton, when he lost control of his vehicle and crashed into a truck in the oncoming lane. The April 2023 crash killed Janice Mary Graham, 67, and injured Mark Graham, who was driving the other vehicle.
Much of the testimony during the two-day trial focused on the road conditions at the time and whether Howell was driving recklessly. But in his verdict, Judge DaHood appeared to focus on the uncontested fact that Howell’s blood contained a concentration of THC — the main psychoactive chemical in marijuana — that was three times the legal limit for driving.
— Sam Wilson, sam.wilson@missoulian.com
Getting residents to trust local government, strengthening the economy and creating more housing opportunities topped the Missoula Mayor's priorities for her second year managing the city budget.
Mayor Andrea Davis told Missoula City Council Wednesday morning that she hopes to continue setting budget priorities using data metrics and aims to utilize city tax dollars more effectively.
She noted that the official budget process will start in May.
"I believe in the city," Davis told council. "I believe in our people, I believe in (city council) as colleagues, and I think that the best is yet to come for our community."
Last year, the city increased taxes by 16%, although 11% of the increase came from a voter-approved fire levy.
— Griffen Smith, griffen.smith@missoulian.com
Freya, a 9-year-old from the United Kingdom, has autism. She feels overwhelmed sometimes by large crowds, like at parties, or by the bright lights and hustle of a supermarket.
When that happens, she remembers something she learned while rock climbing with her parents and younger brother: "It's OK to get scared." Breathe slow and steady, take small steps. I can do this.
A scene from the short documentary "Freya" shows the British 9-year-old and her family as they ascend a multi-day climbing route. Freya, who has autism, uses skills developed through climbing to deal with scary or overwhelming situations in everyday life.
The story of how Freya applies lessons from multi-day climbs up towering granite peaks to her daily life with autism is the subject of a short but poignant four-minute documentary titled simply, "Freya."
"Freya" will screen in Missoula this weekend when Mountainfilm — the nearly 50-year-old festival of outdoors, environmental, cultural documentaries and storytelling — returns to town on Sunday, courtesy of the Bob Marshall Wilderness Foundation.
— Joshua Murdock, joshua.murdock@missoulian.com
See what balfolk is all about or learn who the best artists under 40 in the state of Montana are.
— Cory Walsh, cory.walsh@missoulian.com
The Montana Museum of Art and Culture is opening a new exhibition, "19 Under 39: Celebrating Montana's Emerging Artists." Above: Robin Graf Dorsey, “A River is a Body Running,” (2024, silkscreen print).
In the video for Shadow Devereaux’s song, “Bring Them Home,” the Salish-Blackfeet MC and producer stands with Chief Mountain towering behind him as he raps about the return of the bison herd to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Devereaux produced the song for the 2024 documentary "Foreshadow," the name he raps under. The very first lines, “Call it perfect timing/better now than never though,” now supply the name and motto for his new solo album.
Salish-Blackfeet rapper Shadow Devereaux at the Area 41 Collective's studio in Missoula on Monday. Devereaux, who performs under the name Foreshadow, produced the song and video for the 2024 documentary "Bring Them Home," about the return of the bison herd to the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
Last summer, he applied for a brand new fellowship, the Billy Conway Artist Fund, designed for emerging Indigenous artists. After some 12 years of do-it-yourself hustle, he was teamed up with a national producer, Lophiile, who has a Grammy Award to his name, in a state of the art recording studio in Livingston.
After that, he knew the album title had to be “Perfect Timing.”
“That's exactly how it came about,” he said. “It just felt like it was the right time. Yeah, can't really say much more than that.”
The seven tracks cover his youth on the Flathead Indian Reservation and messages about resiliency and pursuing goals even when they seem distant, with energetic, organic beats that draw on R&B, funk and more.
— Cory Walsh, cory.walsh@missoulian.com
Missoula's community cinema is screening a tongue-in-cheek horror movie, "Death of a Unicorn," along with "Cuisine de la 'Pocaclypse," a dystopian movie shot in the area.
— Charlotte Macorn, for the Missoulian
The Missoula Downtown Foundation needs to replace the Caras Park Pavilion canopy. Also, a ranch-to-table restaurant expanded in Missoula.
— David Erickson, david.erickson@missoulian.com
A recent review showed that Missoula County Public Schools are providing far more disability services than required by state law — but that might get the district in trouble, since money is tight and they legally have to maintain effort once they’ve established it. That means they can’t cut from the disability services budget, and have to instead raise revenue.
Since fall 2024, Park County Special Education Cooperative director Verne Beffert has been conducting a review of Missoula County Public Schools’ disability services, also known as special education. At the work session for the March 25 MCPS board of trustees meeting, Beffert presented his findings and recommendations.
School districts can get some disability services money reimbursed from Medicaid, but Beffert found that MCPS hasn’t been filling out the paperwork to get that money. He recommended the district look into Medicaid reimbursement.
Schools also get some disability services funding from the state and federal government, but Beffert cautioned against relying on that money. He stated that President Donald Trump’s planned dismantling of the Department of Education, which hands out IDEA funds for disability services, made it impossible to plan for that money. Trump has stated that IDEA and Title I funds won’t be affected.
— Andy Tallman, andy.tallman@missoulian.com
A Missoula man accused of raping multiple teenagers over a period of six years will be tried as an adult on all 12 felony counts he faces, after a judge Wednesday denied his request to be considered a juvenile for some of the charges.
Dawson Barry Simmons, 19, is facing three counts of sexual intercourse without consent, related to allegations that he raped three girls in separate incidents in 2023. In one alleged instance he was under 18, in another he was under 18 and the other incident allegedly occurred around the time of his 18th birthday. Each of those allegations was made in 2024.
In a separate case, Simmons has been charged with eight counts of sexual intercourse without consent, on allegations he repeatedly had sexual intercourse with a girl four years younger than him over a period of years beginning when he was 12. A ninth felony charge in the case accuses him of tampering with evidence.
— Sam Wilson, sam.wilson@missoulian.com
HELENA — Multiple allegations that Senate President Matt Regier improperly hired an attorney during the last legislative session using state dollars were all found to be unsubstantiated by the Legislative Audit Division.
A coalition of Senate Democrats and Republicans who have rebelled against Regier referred his actions to the Audit Division earlier this month. Sen. Shelley Vance, R-Belgrade, initiated the referral process, claiming the attorney contract was akin to the contract dealings that have ensnared Sen. Jason Ellsworth, R-Hamilton, in his own ethics proceedings over much of the legislative session. Ellsworth is a member of the Senate coalition that’s frustrated Regier and Republican leadership across that time.
Vance staked her referral on reporting by the Montana Free Press, which noted a bill to allow the speaker of the House and the Senate president to each hire their own special counsel, as Regier had done, died in the final hours of the 2023 Legislature.
Legislative auditors found that, through a series of separate bills and spending authority, Regier, who was speaker of the House at the time, had hired a special counsel properly, and the six distinct claims the Senate advanced from Vance’s motion could not be substantiated.
— Victoria Eavis and Seaborn Larson, Montana State News Bureau
City staff said this week they're still seeking private donations to conduct a "housing sprint" as they wind down operations at the Johnson Street Shelter and look to find living arrangements for the people who stay there.
The city hopes to house roughly 150 people who use the homeless shelter, which Missoula Mayor Andrea Davis announced earlier this month would close on Aug. 31.
But a nonprofit leader noted during a Wednesday update to city council that just $15,000 of the $400,000 goal the city set to complete the housing sprint had been raised so far.
United Way of Missoula County Executive Director Susan Hay Patrick listed the figures to council and stressed that United Way would not be contributing funds to the effort.
"We will put energy and commitment into the sprint fund, but we will be looking to the public sector, and to institutional funders, foundations, (and) businesses," Patrick said. "It would be too big a lift for us to do alone to add that to our other responsibilities."
— Griffen Smith, griffen.smith@missoulian.com
As Missoula County Public Schools gets squeezed tighter and tighter by budget constraints, the MCPS School Board voted Tuesday to raise permissive levies and put three more levies up for a vote before the community.
The permissive levy, which covers transportation, building reserves and tuition, will increase by about $1.6 million for the elementary levy and about $1.8 million for the high school levy. This comes out to an estimated annual increase of $12.20 and $7.60 per $100,000 of home valuation, respectively. MCPS business and operations director Pat McHugh said this is a larger annual increase than average.
The Board voted to hold a general fund levy election on May 6 to levy $384,947, or about 2.14 mills, for the elementary schools, and $164,315, or 4.95 mills, for the high schools. The elementary levy will raise annual taxes by about $2.89 per $100,000 in home value, while the high school levy will raise them by about 67 cents per $100,000 in home value. These levies, if passed, will give MCPS the money to run its schools at its maximum budget allowed by state law.
— Andy Tallman, andy.tallman@missoulian.com
Gov. Greg Gianforte visited Bonner Elementary on Wednesday to discuss a bill making its way through the Legislature that would allocate an additional $100 million for raising teacher pay in Montana.
House Bill 252, or the STARS Act, builds on the TEACH Act, which was passed and expanded over the last two legislative sessions. According to a Montana Department of Labor report released in December, Montana ranks 42nd in the country for starting teacher pay, and wage growth for teachers hasn’t kept pace with cost-of-living increases. The STARS Act gives schools a piece of its pie if they raise all teacher and qualified staff salaries above $41,000.
Gov. Greg Gianforte speaks with students in a first-grade class at Bonner Elementary on Wednesday.
“We haven’t been paying our teachers what they deserve,” Gianforte said during his Bonner visit.
Gianforte toured the school and visited two classrooms, then held a roundtable to discuss the STARS Act and tout cellphone-free policies in schools. Gianforte has recently advocated for Montana schools to put cellphone-free policies in place, and he complimented Bonner’s current policy, which forbids kids from having their phones out during school hours. Those present at the roundtable agreed that phones were a detriment to students both socially and academically.
— Andy Tallman, andy.tallman@missoulian.com
A fire that completely destroyed the former HuHot restaurant in Missoula caused more than $2 million worth of damage, according to charging documents filed this week.
At an initial appearance Monday for Amy Sue Birk, 34, Justice of the Peace Alex Beal set bond at $10,000 for one charge of negligent arson, a felony. Her arraignment was set for April 7.
Birk told Missoula police detectives that she had gone into a shed adjacent to the HuHot building on March 19 to get out of the weather, according to charging documents signed by Deputy Missoula County Attorney Bill Haney. She built a fire on a metal sheet inside the small shed to heat up some food, she allegedly admitted, and suggested that an ember from the fire may have landed on a tarp that she later fell asleep on.
— Sam Wilson, sam.wilson@missoulian.com
The mugshot of an attorney elected last year to be a Lake County District Judge must be released to the public, a judge overseeing the attorney’s criminal case ruled this month.
Kenneth “Britt” Cotter pleaded not guilty in January to charges filed by prosecutors with Attorney General Austin Knudsen’s office that accuse him of attempting to buy cocaine in 2022. Citing his desire to fight the allegations, Cotter had previously stepped down before taking office.
During the January hearing, Cotter’s defense attorney asked Ravalli County District Judge Jennifer Lint to block the release of Cotter’s booking photo, in part citing the “public nature” of the case against a high-profile local attorney.
Lint, who was brought in to oversee the case in Lake County District Court, agreed at the time and ordered the booking photo be sealed. Following opposing legal briefs on that decision from prosecutors and the defense, however, she reversed course in a March 3 order finding the mugshot is public information.
— Sam Wilson, sam.wilson@missoulian.com
Kristin Bail, a veteran land-management official with more than 40 years of combined experience at the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management, will serve as acting regional forester for the Forest Service's Region 1 beginning March 31.
The Forest Service announced Tuesday that Bail would take over the top position at the Missoula-based Region 1, also called the Northern Rockies Region, from longtime Regional Forester Leanne Marten, who will retire at the end of this Friday, March 28. The region includes 25 million acres of public lands across nine national forests and one sprawling national grassland in Montana, the northern Idaho Panhandle, North Dakota and northwest South Dakota.
Kristin Bail
Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz, an appointee in the administration of President Donald Trump, selected Bail for the acting regional forester job, according to the announcement. Bail has previously been appointed to leadership positions by the administrations of Republican and Democrat presidents.
Regional foresters report to the chief of the Forest Service. It was not clear how long Bail would remain acting regional forester before someone is named permanent regional forester.
— Joshua Murdock, joshua.murdock@missoulian.com
A Missoula man was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in federal prison for drug trafficking after he was busted with 5,000 fentanyl pills last year.
Andrew David Ambler, 26, pleaded guilty last year to possession with intent to distribute, under a plea deal in which prosecutors agreed to dismiss a count of possessing a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, according to court records.
During the May 2024 drug bust, agents with the Montana Regional Violent Crime Task Force also allegedly found methamphetamine and a loaded .22 caliber pistol on Ambler.
He admitted to distributing fentanyl and meth, according to federal prosecutors.
— Sam Wilson, sam.wilson@missoulian.com
Nearing the 60-day mark of the 90-day obstacle course that is the 2025 Legislature, Republicans' "judicial reform" agenda seems to be fleeting.
As of this week, just one Republican-backed bill under the caucus' banner of court reform has fully passed the Legislature and been signed into law by Republican Gov. Greg Gianforte. Eleven of the 27 proposals are dead or being reworked under different titles.
The Senate has emerged as the more stubborn chamber when it comes to those proposals; 10 of the 11 bills that have so far failed perished there, largely by the hand of a band of moderates unofficially called "The Nine," who have allied with Democrats to steer the chamber on some of the biggest items so far this session. That dynamic came into play again last week when the Senate considered another large offering from Republicans: a new layer of the court system that would be fully appointed by the governor.
Senate Minority Leader Pat Flowers, D-Belgrade, whose caucus partnered with moderate Republicans this session, said last week the "general claims court" was not something his caucus is interested in.
— Seaborn Larson, seaborn.larson@helenair.com
A large-scale repair to the Missoula Montana Airport runway is moving ahead after the Airport Board approved an $18 million bid for the project Tuesday, which would completely close the airport to flights for five days in September.
The Airport Board approved the contract contingent on federal funding, which would pay for 95% of the project costs. The Missoula Airport Authority would pay for the remaining expenses.
The repairs are meant to get ahead of routine maintenance and lower long-term operational costs.
"We believe that we are a high priority project with the (Federal Aviation Administration), we are working on getting this funded," Airport Director Brian Ellestad said on Tuesday. "...We have got to get this done."
The airport will close to flights from Sept. 2 to Sept. 7, 2025, for roughly 127 hours of work. Contingencies have been planned for emergencies and for helicopter operations in western Montana.
— Griffen Smith, griffen.smith@missoulian.com
A subdivision that will add dozens of new homes to Miller Creek is a step closer to fruition after Missoula City Council unanimously approved parts of the plan Monday night, including rerouting part of Lower Miller Creek Road.
The council approved rezoning three phases of the Linda Vista Estates subdivision, which includes 77 residential lots on 81 acres, another 18 acres reserved for open space and additional land that has yet to be planned for.
"The rezoning request will help address the increased need for missing middle housing types and be in the best interest of the city as a whole by further preserving recreational open space," associate planner Lauren Stevens said at the meeting.
— Griffen Smith, griffen.smith@missoulian.com
A developer is asking the city of Missoula for a variance from zoning code in order to build a mixed-use building that would have eight residential units and three small commercial spaces.
The project at 4106 Weeping Willow Drive would be located on a vacant piece of land near residential neighborhoods and a business corridor. The site is just off 39th Street and not far from the Walmart Supercenter on Highway 93.
Hope Fisher, a project manager with Gavin Hanks Architects, is representing the property owner on the plan. Fisher sent in an application to the city's Board of Adjustments requesting a variance from setback requirements. The developer would like to build the building 12 feet from the Gharrett Street property line, but the zoning on the parcel requires buildings to be set back 20 feet to protect an existing large, old willow tree.
— David Erickson, david.erickson@missoulian.com
Historical interpretation might seem like a niche field, but Jennifer Robinson explained it’s all around Missoula. If you’ve ever read a sign on the Kim Williams Trail or attended a program at a museum, you’ve seen historical interpretation at work.
“Interpretation is the art and science of how to tell a story,” said Robinson, Montana Natural History Center (MNHC) educational director.
The Montana Natural History Center educational director, Jennifer Robinson, at the Missoula Historic Preservation Center garden on Friday, March 21 in Missoula. Robinson will be presented the Distinguished Interpretive Manager award at the National Association for Interpretation’s annual regional workshop in Missoula.
That’s what she does at the MNHC, and what she’s done for her whole career: tell stories about landscapes, flora, fauna and culture to connect people to place.
“It’s how to make the history of our land and our stories come alive for the public,” Robinson said. “We all have stories. We all have experience. Regardless of where we’re coming from or where we’re going, our stories define who we are.”
— Andy Tallman, andy.tallman@missoulian.com
An expert on conservation, sustainability and natural resources will be featured at the next University of Montana President's Lecture.
Peter Seligmann, who has spent nearly 40 years in conservation in leadership positions at various organizations, will give a talk titled “Head in the Sky, Feet in the Mud” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 26 in the University Center Ballroom, according to a UM press release.
Peter Seligmann
Seligmann "works in partnership with governments, communities and businesses to find innovative and pragmatic solutions to ensure the sustainability of the world’s natural resources," the release said.
— Andy Tallman, andy.tallman@missoulian.com
A development group is seeking a height variance from the city in order to construct a large new four-story Hyatt Place Hotel at 220 Expressway in Missoula, which is a vacant plot of land west of North Reserve Street.
A hotel management company based in Idaho Falls called InnTrusted is working with the city to build the large hotel, which would include an indoor pool, a bar and a restaurant.
The current zoning on the land allows for a maximum building height of 50 feet, and the developers are requesting a variance to allow the hotel to be 53 feet, 9 inches tall. They are actually seeking a reprieve of 4 feet, 3 inches in order to have a 6-inch buffer zone for "grading" and construction contingencies.
— David Erickson, david.erickson@missoulian.com
Proposed designs of the new Hyatt Place Hotel showing either a three-story version or a four-story version.
A plan to construct a fairly major housing and commercial development near the California Street pedestrian bridge in Missoula took a step forward last week as the Missoula Consolidated Planning Board unanimously approved a rezone request.
Richard and Kammy Zavarelli of Missoula own a 5-acre site at the north end of California Street, just south of the river, and are planning to redevelop the property to add several multi-story residential buildings, including a five-story, 53-foot tall mixed-use building, along with townhome units. The Missoulian has previously reported that if the rezone is eventually approved by the Missoula City Council, as many as 280 dwelling units could be allowed on the three parcels.
In their application, the developers are planning 235 dwelling units and 8,500 square feet of commercial space.
— David Erickson, david.erickson@missoulian.com
