That's the recommendation of Portland-based planning consultants Crandall Arambula, the people the city of Whitefish hired to draft its Downtown Master Plan.
The consultants were recently asked by the Heart of Whitefish downtown merchant organization to weigh in on the issue of building height and massing after several developers presented plans for four-story buildings.
"Whitefish's downtown is unique and fragile," George Crandall and Don Arambula said in their Sept. 26 letter. "It cannot be duplicated; however, it can be destroyed by new development that is out of scale with existing buildings."
The consultants presented a three-point recommendation:
By RICHARD HANNERS - Whitefish Pilot
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