Great Falls city officials moved ahead with the Little Shell Tribe’s Good Medicine Community housing development, a project meant for tribal members that would add more than 100 housing units on 18 acres.
Great Falls city officials moved ahead with the Little Shell Tribe’s Good Medicine Community housing development, a project meant for tribal members that would add more than 100 housing units on 18 acres.
Great Falls, Mont. — Great Falls city officials moved ahead with the Little Shell Tribe’s Good Medicine Community housing development, a project meant for tribal members that would add more than 100 housing units on 18 acres.
City commissioners approved the project last week, and some said they saw it as a needed addition to Great Falls’ housing supply.
Commissioner Rick Tryon said the city needed housing and believed the development could help ease that pressure.
“This is an awesome project. I think it’s really well though out,” said Great Falls City Commissioner Rick Tryon.
Tryon also said he had concerns about traffic and safety tied to the development.
“There are legitimate concerns that were raised that we need to have about traffic and about safety,” Tryon said.
Some Great Falls residents raised questions about how construction could affect EMS response times and traffic around town.
City staff provided a traffic analysis that outlined three possible routes for drivers to consider during commutes.
Little Shell Chippewa Tribe Chairman Gerald Gray said he wants the tribe and the city to keep working together on the project to improve results for Great Falls.
“We choose partnership, we choose annexation because we want this neighborhood, the families that live here and the tribe itself to remain an active part of the Great Falls community,” said Little Shell Chippewa Tribe Tribal Chairman Gerald Gray.
The housing development is expected to move forward in phases.
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