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The new designation allows for 16 acres of residential building and 14 acres of commercial while also setting aside 13 acres as open space. It also allows a density of 16 dwelling units per acre.

The veto includes $2 million to the Chippewa Cree Tribe for a language immersion school and $250,000 to Missoula for a public plaza on the Riverfront Trail.

Saying new development should bear the cost of the services needed to support it, Missoula County on Thursday adopted a resolution enabling it to collect impact fees whenever a building permit is issued.

With the Flathead National Forest considering a special-use permit for a controversial project at Holland Lake, Missoula County is asking the federal agency to include a provision requiring the developer to comply with local building and land-use policies.

The A’s organization has been busy for months in Carson City, lobbying politicians for support to build a 30,000-seat, $1.5 billion stadium with a retractable roof on the famed Las Vegas Strip.

After less than a decade of owning fast-food restaurants in Montana, Jan and Denny Rehberg of Billings has closed all of them.

Cost estimates for a housing development on city-owned land off Scott Street should soon be clear enough to determine price points and financing, the city said.

After last week's disagreement on process and timing, the Missoula City Council this week approved a request asking city staff and their consultants to include parking reform on a list of items that could best address the city's housing shortage.

Now that Lolo is getting a new school, a team of developers are seeking changes to the county's land-use map in hopes of providing housing and some commercial space on the former school property.

Robbie Liben writes, "Missoula, like all US cities, has vast swaths of excess parking spaces. It is due to our wasteful and archaic zoning laws which for over 50 years have required arbitrary parking mandates within all private residential and commercial development and redevelopment projects."