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Hopes are high in East Missoula after locals stop storage unit zoning

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After they brought hundreds of people together to defeat plans for new storage units in the heart of their town, several East Missoula locals have formed a group with dreams of driving community identity.

“Something else was about to happen to us, instead of with us or for us,” Erika Hickey, one of the organizers of East Missoula United, said of last November’s struggle to define the heart of their neighborhood. She helped organize opposition to a zoning change that would have allowed additional storage units on the empty lot next to Ole’s Country Store at the center of town. They started a Facebook group called “No More Storage Units,” made flyers, put out a comment box and a petition and spread the word as far as they could.

“(East Missoula is) not perfect, but I’m proud to live here and it is home, you know?” O’Riordain said. “And I love it. And it deserves better. We deserve better.”

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