Development Projects

Project Description

The Missoula County Planning, Development and Sustainability Department (PDS) has received a Floodplain Development Permit #26-12 from Grant Creek Crossing – Missoula LLC for reconstruction of Schramm Street in the Grant Creek regulated flood hazard area.

The site is located at the Schramm Street crossing over Grant Creek, about 725 feet of Reserve Street: Tract 3A-1B COS 7031, S05, T13N, R19W in Missoula County.

What is a floodplain development permit?

The primary purpose of a floodplain development permit is to promote public health, safety and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain.

Public Comment

Submit public comment by 5 p.m., Monday, April 6, through the following three ways.

1. Use the comment tool below. You must be registered on Missoula County Voice
2. Email floodplain@missoulacounty.us
3. Mail to Planning, Development and Sustainability
   • Attn: Matt Heimel, Floodplain Administrator, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802

Questions or want to make an appointment?

Please feel free to call 406-258-4647 or email floodplain@missoulacounty.us with any questions or to make an appointment to review the permit application.

Important Documents and Links

Cover Letter

Floodplain Permit Application

Revised Map

Engineer Certification

Floodplain and Shoreline Administration Webpage

Physical applications are available in the PDS office at 127 E. Main St., Suite 2, in downtown Missoula

This permit is subject to approval by the floodplain administrator and does not go before the county commissioners.

Project Description

The Missoula County Planning, Development and Sustainability Department (PDS) has received a Floodplain Development Permit Application #26-08 from Amee Tafoya for reconstruction of a cabin in the Clearwater River regulated flood hazard area.

The site is located at 975 Leaning Pine Drive on state-leased land: Parcel: 13, COS 4875, S)4, T16N, R15W in Missoula County.

What is a floodplain permit?

The primary purpose of a Floodplain Development Permit is to promote public health, safety, and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain.

Public Comment

Submit public comment by 5 p.m., Monday, April 6, through the following three ways.

1. Use the comment tool below. You must be registered on Missoula County Voice
2. Email floodplain@missoulacounty.us
3. Mail to Planning, Development and Sustainability
   • Attn: Matt Heimel, Floodplain Administrator, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802

Questions or want to make an appointment?

Please feel free to call 406-258-4647 or email floodplain@missoulacounty.us with any questions or to make an appointment to review the permit application.

Important Documents and Links

Floodplain Permit Application and Value Estimates – 8.28.25

Floodplain Permit Application and Values Estimates – 9.18.25

Construction Plans

Modified DeAcetis Cabin

Floodplain and Shoreline Administration Webpage

Physical applications are available in the PDS office at 127 E. Main St., Suite 2 in downtown Missoula

This permit is subject to approval by the floodplain administrator and does not go before the county commissioners.

Project Description

The Missoula County Planning, Development & Sustainability Department (PDS) has received a Floodplain Development Permit Application #26-05 from George Neumunz for construction of a stream crossing in the Sixmile Creek regulated flood hazard area.

The site is located on the west side of the Sixmile Road: Lot 21 of Six Mile Timber Tracts #2, S23, T15N, R22W, Missoula County.

What is a floodplain development permit?

The primary purpose of the floodplain development permit is to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain.

Public Comment:

Submit public comment by 5 p.m., Monday, April 6 through the following three ways.

1. Use the comment tool below. You must be registered on Missoula County Voice
2. Email floodplain@missoulacounty.us
3. Mail to Planning, Development, & Sustainability
   • Attn: Matt Heimel, Floodplain Administrator, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802

Questions or want to make an appointment?

Please feel free to call 406-258-4647 or email floodplain@missoulacounty.us with any questions or to make an appointment to review the permit application.

Important Documents and Links:

Floodplain Permit Application

Supplemental and Revised Packet

Discussion and Review

Floodplain and Shoreline Administration Webpage

Physical applications are available in the PDS office at 127 E. Main St., Suite 2 in downtown Missoula

This permit is subject to approval by the floodplain administrator and does not go before the county commissioners.

Project Description

The Missoula County Planning, Development, & Sustainability Department (PDS) has received Floodplain Development Permit Application #26-03 from Gregory Axtman for electrical utility work.

The primary purpose of a Floodplain Development Permit is to promote the public health, safety, and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain.

Project Location

The site is located at 1744 Snowmass Drive in the Clearwater River regulated flood hazard area: Parcel 15 of COS 5140, Section 04, Township 16 North, Range 15 West, Missoula County. See location here.

The full application is available for review online or in the PDS office at 127 E. Main St., Suite 2, in Missoula.

Please feel free to call 406-258-4657 or email floodplain@missoulacounty.us with any questions or to make an appointment to review the permit application.

Public Comment

Submit comments by 5 p.m., Friday, Oct. 17, by using the comments tools below, by emailing floodplain@missoulacounty.us or mailing to Planning, Development, & Sustainability, Attn: Matt Heimel, Floodplain Administrator, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula MT 59802.

Related Documents and Links

Floodplain Permit Application

Application Signatures

Site Map

This permit is subject to approval by the floodplain administrator and does not go before the Board of County Commissioners.

Project Description

The Missoula County Planning, Development and Sustainability Department (PDS) has received Floodplain Development Permit Application #26-22 from Nicholas Caras to make improvements to an existing commercial building.

The primary purpose of a Floodplain Development Permit is to promote public health, safety and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain.

Project Location

The site is located at 7 Rock Creek Road in the Clark Fork River floodplain: Parcel C of COS 1041, S12, T11N, R17W, Missoula County. See location here.

The full application is available for review online or in the PDS office at 131 East Main St. in Missoula.

Please feel free to call 406-258-4657 or email floodplain@missoulacounty.us with any questions or to make an appointment to review the permit application.

Public Comment

Submit comments by 5 p.m. Friday, July 24, by using the comment tool below, emailing floodplain@missoulacounty.us or mailing to Planning, Development and Sustainability, Attn: Matt Heimel, Floodplain Administrator, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula MT 59802.

Related Documents and Links

Floodplain permit application

Cost estimate

Appraisal for purpose of floodplain review

Floodplain and Shoreline Administration webpage

Project Description

The Missoula County Planning, Development and Sustainability Department (PDS) has received Floodplain Development Permit Application #26-20 from Tollefson Properties LLC to build a utility enclosure for a pump that is part of a project to divert water from the Bitterroot River to Miller Creek.

The primary purpose of a Floodplain Development Permit is to promote public health, safety and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain.

Project Location

The property is located at 6225 Haugan Drive in the Bitterroot River floodplain, S14, T12N, R20W, Missoula County. See location here.

The full application is available for review online or in the PDS office at 131 East Main St. in Missoula.

Please feel free to call 406-258-4657 or email floodplain@missoulacounty.us with any questions or to make an appointment to review the permit application.

Public Comment

Submit comments by 5 p.m. Friday, August 12, by using the comment tool below, emailing floodplain@missoulacounty.us or mailing to Planning, Development and Sustainability, Attn: Matt Heimel, Floodplain Administrator, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula MT 59802.

Related Documents and Links

Building permit plans 6.5.26

Joint application Oxbow diversion project

Floodplain and Shoreline Administration webpage

Project Description:

Lorna Richardson is requesting to use the family transfer exemption from subdivision review to divide her existing 45.8-acre property at 4328 Mount Ave. into two parcels (Parcel C1: 22.935 acres; Parcel C2: 22.875 acres). Lorna plans to gift C1 to her daughter, Lisa Ann Edwards, and keep C2 as her primary residence.

What is a family transfer?

Montana law specifically allows landowners to divide land and gift or sell one parcel per immediate family member (like a child, parent or spouse), without full subdivision review.

Requests for family transfers must always come before the commissioners. Missoula County considers dozens of family land transfers every year. It’s not rare — other counties across Montana regularly process these applications too. It’s not a loophole — it’s in the law for a reason: to help families live near each other or pass down land. It doesn’t skirt regulations — the process requires surveys, documentation, fees and approval by county commissioners.

The landowner and recipient must be real people, not LLCs or corporations. It can only be used once per family member per county.

Project Timeline:

County commissioners hearing: 2 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 27

• In-person location: Sophie Moiese Room, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula
• Virtual option: Residents can attend the meeting via Microsoft Teams. To join the call on your phone, call 406-272-4824, Conference ID 467 457 758#. To join the meeting on your device, follow the links on the agenda that will be published at http://missoula.co/bccmeetings

Project Lead:

Katy Reeder, 406-258-4657

Public Comment:

Submit public comment by using the comment tool below.

Important Links and Documents:

Richardson Family Transfer application

Project Description

Tyler Loterbauer is requesting to use the family transfer exemption to divide their 20.1-acre property located at 12282 Rosco Road into two parcels (Tract 1: 10.05 acres; Tract 2: 10.05 acres). Loterbauer plans to gift Tract 2 to their father and keep Tract 1. Both tracts are intended to be developed with residential housing with individual well and septic systems.

Loterbauer also requests an aggregation exemption from subdivision review to expunge an underlying boundary line within the parent tract, which had been identified by the Missoula County Clerk and Recorder.

The property is unzoned and is classified as Open and Resource Land by the 2002 Regional Land Use Guide, an update of the 1975 Comprehensive Plan.

Subdivision Regulations and Exemptions

Missoula County’s subdivision regulations promote public health, safety and general welfare by ensuring any subdivision of land in the County’s jurisdiction provides for adequate light, air, water supply, sewage disposal, parks and recreation areas, ingress and egress and other public requirements. Many requests to divide land must go through the subdivision process to ensure these requirements are met, but certain types of land division are exempt from subdivision review. Landowners can apply for one or multiple subdivision exemptions when their development plans meet the state and local requirements for the applicable exemptions.

• Family Transfer Exemption
  Landowners can request a family transfer exemption when they intend to divide their property to gift or sell the newly created parcel(s) to an immediate family member.
• Aggregation Exemption

Landowners can request an aggregation exemption when the division or combination of parcels will not create new lots or otherwise significantly alter the development potential.

View subdivision exemption criteria.

What is a family transfer?

Montana law specifically allows landowners to divide land and gift or sell one parcel per immediate family member (like a child, parent or spouse), without full subdivision review.

Requests for family transfers must always come before the commissioners. Missoula County considers dozens of family land transfers every year. It’s not rare — other counties across Montana regularly process these applications too. It’s not a loophole — it’s in the law for a reason: to help families live near each other or pass down land. It’s does not skirt regulations — the process requires surveys, documentation, fees and approval by county commissioners.

The landowner and recipient must be real people, not LLCs or corporations. It can only be used once per family member per county.

Project Timeline

County commissioners hearing: Thursday, Aug. 13, 2 p.m.

• In-person location: Sophie Moiese Room, Missoula County Courthouse Annex, 200 West Broadway, Missoula
• Virtual option: Residents can attend the meeting via Microsoft Teams. To join the call on your phone, call 406-272-4824, Conference ID 467 457 758#. To join the meeting on your device, follow the links on the agenda that will be published at http://missoula.co/bccmeetings

Project Lead

Kevin Dantic, 406-258-4657

Public Comment

Submit public comment by using the comment tool below.

Important Links and Documents

Loterbauer family transfer exemption application

Loterbauer existing and proposed conditions

Planning, Development and Sustainability webpage

Project Description

The Missoula County Planning, Development and Sustainability Department (PDS) has received Floodplain Development Permit Application #26-24 from Mari Houck of Five Valleys Land Trust to construct access improvements for an open space property.

The primary purpose of a Floodplain Development Permit is to promote public health, safety and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain.

Project Location

The site is located east of 29 Rock Creek Road in the Clark Fork River floodway: S7, T11N, R16W, Missoula County. See location here.

The full application is available for review online or in the PDS office at 131 East Main St. in Missoula.

Please feel free to call 406-258-4657 or email floodplain@missoulacounty.us with any questions or to make an appointment to review the permit application.

Public Comment

Submit comments by 5 p.m. Friday, July 24, by using the comment tool below, emailing floodplain@missoulacounty.us or mailing to Planning, Development and Sustainability, Attn: Matt Heimel, Floodplain Administrator, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula MT 59802.

Related Documents and Links

Floodplain permit application

Floodway certification

Project map

Floodplain and Shoreline Administration webpage

Project Description:

The Missoula County Planning, Development and Sustainability Department (PDS) has received a Floodplain Development Permit Application #26-17 from Missoula County Public Works Department to reconstruct and expand the Riverside Park cul-de-sac parking area to address deteriorating infrastructure, improve emergency vehicle access, meet accessibility requirements, and accommodate increasing park use.

The primary purpose of the Floodplain Development Permit is to promote public health, safety, and general welfare, to minimize flood losses in areas subject to flood hazards, and to promote wise use of the floodplain.

Project Location:

The site is located on the north end of Lakeside Drive in the FEMA-designated Bitterroot River floodplain in Lolo: S26, T12N, R20W, Missoula County. See location here.

The full application is available for review online or in the PDS office at 131 E Main St., in Missoula.

Please feel free to call 406-258-4657 or email floodplain@missoulacounty.us with any questions or to make an appointment to review the permit application in person.

Public Comment:

Submit public comment through Monday, July 6, by using the comment tool below, emailing floodplain@missoulacounty.us or mailing to Planning, Development and Sustainability, Attn: Matt Heimel, Floodplain Administrator, 200 W. Broadway St., Missoula, MT 59802.

Important links and documents:

Floodplain permit application

Missoula County Floodplain and Shoreline Administration