Neighbors appeared unimpressed with a developer’s plans for housing east of the Flathead River along River Road near Columbia Falls.

An informal meeting last week drew a heated response from the public as Laura Burnham and her associates from Berg Land Company of Victor, Idaho laid out plans for the development, which calls for 203 units on about 50 acres of what is now an open field of grass.

The plan would be to annex the property into the city and run city services like sewer under the Flathead River at the developer’s expense.

Under the proposal River Road would be moved to the east and would intersect U.S. 2 with a traffic light, although project engineer Mike Brodie conceded it would take a study by the Montana Department of Transportation to determine whether a light was warrante

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