Brannigan’s Pub is asking for any permit to open an upstairs dining region with separate casino and card table rooms too as a loosening of Kalispell zoning regulations that limit the size of accessory-use casinos.

“We don’t know if it can get accepted, rejected or what, but we’re going to ask,” stated Dewey Swank, a partner within the project.

Kalispell organizing staffers suggest that both on the pub’s requests be approved. The requests go ahead of the Kalispell Organizing Board for consideration in addition to a formal recommendation on Tuesday and must then clear the Kalispell City Council.

Brannigan’s Pub opened final November inside the renovated Loading Dock building across from Depot Park. The enterprise is asking to get a conditional use permit necessary to open an accessory-use casino inside 300 feet of a park, school, church, residential zone or one more casino.

Kalispell’s zoning ordinance limits the size of such casinos to ten % with the business’s total floor space. That may function for corporations with larger buildings, nevertheless it will not operate for any smaller sized company for example Brannigan’s, Swank mentioned.

Due to that, the pub is also asking to get a zoning text amendment that would loosen the regulation to 20 % of your total floor space for corporations that have 6,000 square feet or significantly less.

Inside a report for the Kalispell Arranging Board, organizing staffers stated they assistance the change.

The ten % limit appears to function for bigger businesses, but smaller sized ones, “especially those attempting to redevelop existing space downtown, may not have the ability to create adequate casino area to correctly function,” the report states.

Planners noted that a common gaming machine measured 17 inches wide when the regulation was written and now measures 28 inches or wider, meaning much more space is necessary to permit exactly the same level of function.

Brannigan’s proposal is trying to produce the existing guidelines extra equitable for smaller sized firms and the “additional flexibility would open up the potential to redevelop smaller current spaces into restaurants and bars with minor accessory gaming areas,” the employees report states.