The Butte Silver Bow Zoning Board of Adjustment met on August 21, 2025, to consider a special use permit for a short-term rental, a variance for a garage setback, and to hold elections for board officers. All applications were approved unanimously.
We're uh a little early for the uh zoning board of adjustment meeting, but uh we have all our board members who are gonna be here here. Um all the staff that's gonna be here here and all the applicants are here, so let's uh let's kick this thing off. Joello, you want to do a call oh wait that's called over I thought we were gonna never mind a roll call, but um all right. So first thing is uh board elections. What we're going to do is we'll take nominations. Um Becky will go ahead and write those down and then at the end of the meeting um we will uh vote on those and uh then we'll be done. Is that correct, Becky? Okay. Um I'll uh I'll introduce us. I'm Stephen Co. I'm sitting in until we do elections and we'll see see where that shakes out. Um we've got Garrett Craig, Heidi Rosenleaf, Lexi Murphy, and Mike McKinnon, Mike Key on McKeon? McEwan. I knew I knew how to say it. Um we got uh Joella here in at the seat, we've got Aiden sitting over there and Becky over there. So without further ado, um do we want to uh open up for nominations? So we just yell them out or what are we doing, Becky? Okay. We'll be informal, just uh raise your hand and we'll take nominations. How's that? Thank you, I think. Okay. Um for vice chair, uh I'll return the favor, Mike if you're up for it. Okay. Any other nominations? I know that we can can we nominate people who aren't here. Um I think they're they're fair and on the table if somebody wants to nominate either Justin or Shanna. So movement, we'll uh close nominations and we'll take care of the the final part of that business after real business. All right, moving on to uh item number three on the agenda, appeals and reports. First, uh on the docket is special use 2512. This is an application for locate a short-term rental rental in an existing residence at 810 Weskalina. Do we have a staff report, Aiden? Yes, we do. All right, go for it. All right. Um so the property in question is located at 810 Weskalina Street, special use 25-12. Um the applicant is Kilster Holdings LLC and Christine and Michael Young. The proposal is to locate a short-term rental in an existing residence located at 810 Muscalina Street. Findings. So any lodging provided by a homeowner owner for compensation is recognized as a special use allowed in any residential zoning district, provided that the prescribed use is in harmony with other permitted uses in the zone and not found con to be contrary to public interest. The special use process provides for review of public input a measure of the potential impact of the proposed use on the surrounding neighborhood and compatibility of the proposed use with the adjoining neighborhood. Um to present to the board we have outlined the 20 questions um of the special use application. Here's an aerial view of where the property is located as well as our zoning map. You can see it's located in our R3 zone. Here is an outside look at the property. Um kind of a before and after view. You can see that the property has gone through fairly significant outdoor improvements. The location and character of the property and surrounding buildings. The properties located in an R3 multifamily residential zone. The zoning area consists primarily of residential uses with a few commercial uses in close proximity, including the Zip Trip Gas Station, the Hummingbird Cafe, and the Montana Tech campus.