Kalispell City Council at a work session Monday seemed to favor allowing on-street parking in front of Peterson Elementary School along Second Street West.

School staff asked the city to consider on-street parking. The lot across the street at the former Armory property had been used for student drop-offs and pick-ups in the past, but construction of the new Samaritan House apartments on the lot has prompted the need for another option, staff said.

A one-hour limit parking area that fits five to six cars would be designated in front of the school from Meridian Road to the fire hydrant. A patron loading area would be situated just east of the hydrant to the edge of the school. A bus loading area would stretch the length of the paved area to the next-door alley. The crosswalk to the Samari

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