“I don’t want that neighborhood to be inundated with traffic," said council member Julie Armstrong. "I would request that we have multiple meetings with neighborhood councils to see what they want, because there are so many kids in this neighborhood and bringing more traffic into that would be a nightmare for those families."

David Rogers, a representative with Costco Wholesale, traveled from Washington state to make the request for annexation to the City Council’s Land Use and Planning Committee on Wednesday.

He said Costco has been looking for a number of years to relocate its existing warehouse on Reserve to a site that would allow the company to build a Costco “with all the bells and whistles that Missoula deserves.”

Rogers did address the fact that there have been rumors that Costco had been looking at other sites in Missoula.

“Though I won’t go into where that site is, we had been looking at another site in the city and it was a parcel assemblage and we were not able to come to terms with one of the property owners, which caused us to come back to the site we’re looking at today,” he said.