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Former councilman Jerry Ballas said the state High Court’s decision in the Roe case shows that the councilors who started taking on petitions for lot line adjustments were in the right.
“I just think that the Supreme Court ruling pretty much vindicated the position of eight people on the City Council at that time who [...]
Remember the Lowe case? Some people who haven’t been keen on the zoning rewrite brandished it, its criteria, as evidence the city was doing this rewrite upside down and backwards?
Well, the judge’s order said it isn’t even clear whether the Lowe criteria apply here. And it says the city considered those things, such as public [...]
… on the judge’s decision about the zoning lawsuit.
City attorney Jim Nugent said the case was an extra one on the judge’s docket, and a ruling may not come out until next week.
“He could easily need this weekend to work on it and not issue it until Monday,” Nugent said.
It’s expected sometime before 7 p.m. [...]
It isn’t back-in parking on Spruce Street, said Mayor John Engen. Nope, painting those new spaces is a primo example of being able to do more with less, and jumping on an opportunity when one arises.
(OK. Math. Fifteen spots x $18,000 per space = $270,000. That’s the value, per the city. What it cost? Some [...]
On the rewrite: “PAZ appears ready to wrap up their review and send the project back to the City Council floor for final action.” This from OPG. Last I heard, the council would likely take up the new code either the last Monday in September or the first one in October.
On the lawsuit: Plaintiffs’ attorney [...]
With Missoula judges bowing out of the zoning lawsuit, the case heads to Helena.* Missoula City Attorney Jim Nugent said the suit will be before Judge Jeffrey Sherlock.
So, the judge who ruled on the lawsuit about funding public schools, a.k.a., the education judge?
Said Nugent: “He might be educating all of us.”
– Keila Szpaller
It’s official: 11 a.m. Thursday, Sept. 3, the roundabout at Higgins-Hill-Beckwith will open. This per Councilman Bob Jaffe’s committee report.*
Jaffe also writes that Councilors Dick Haines and John Hendrickson want builders to help decide how to measure building height in the new zoning book. From existing grade? From finished grade? Well, from Jaffe: “… this [...]
In another brief,* plaintiffs in the zoning lawsuit continue to argue for quick action from a judge. Petitioners accuse the city of “smoke screen” arguments and continue to say citizens need more and specific information to fully participate.
In other words, the number of meetings isn’t important if the people invited don’t really understand what’s going [...]
The city of Missoula is asking the court to deny or quash the lawsuit — a “writ of mandate” — filed on the zoning rewrite. Deputy city attorney Keithi Worthington forwarded the city’s response.*
In it, city attorney Jim Nugent writes that the “affidavits are permeated with speculative allegations as to what, in their personal opinion, [...]
I’m going to vent first. My folks just spent nearly a week visiting me. We had a lovely time, but I have not been able to convince them to move here. I showed them the best Missoula has to offer — Rattlesnake hikes, Missoula-made ice-cream, Missoula-brewed beer, Montana-grown steak — and my mother will not [...]
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