A request to build a new three-story, 111-room hotel off U.S. Highway 93 south of the Whitefish Mountain Mall has been withdrawn after the city’s planning and building department unanimously recommended denial of a conditional use permit.
The tentative plan called for a TownePlace Suites by Marriott, an extended-stay hotel that offers studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom suites with full kitchens and separate living and sleeping areas.
The proposed 63,000-square-foot hotel would sit south of the pond near the mall and require a new road to be built east from U.S. 93 to Whitefish Avenue. The lot is currently empty and zoned as a secondary business district, or use by right, which requires a conditional use permit for buildings greater than 15,000 square feet.
Whitefish TP LLC, which submitted the application, may resubmit its application for a conditional use permit if it still wishes to build a structure that exceeds the square-footage requirement.