HomeMy WebLinkAbout16521 Neighborhood indicators Memo to PB 2-19-19
TO: PLANNING BOARD
FROM: TOM ROGERS
RE: GROWTH POLICY UPDATE – DISTRICT AND NEIGHBORHOOD
INDICATORS OR BOUNDARIES
DATE: FEBRUARY 19, 2019
Tanya Andreasen will present the City’s Neighborhoods program on the evening of
February 19 and generally describe the programs intent and purpose and ongoing
activities. Following this summary staff will ask each of you to create a map illustrating
your personal impression of Bozeman neighborhoods and districts. Staff will provide a
number of data sets to inform your decisions.
The Planning Board has discussed neighborhoods as a concept and planning tool to
integrate and implement the community plan. In addition, the Bozeman Strategic Plan
(New Interactive Strategic Plan web site) includes specific references to districts and
centers. Three of the proposed seven community plan vision themes are directly related to
this concept. The Board’s focus on land use and the plan align with the notion of
neighborhood plans to more accurately reflect the City’s character.
The Strategic Plan:
An Engaged Community
Well Planned City
Proposed Vision Themes:
The shape of the city
A city of neighborhoods
A city bolstered by downtown and complementary districts
This exercise is informal use only at this time. Although no formal action will result staff
will continue this activity by requesting key individuals from many city departments to
describe how they would define our neighborhoods and districts. The departments include
Engineering, Planning, Park and Recreation, Finance, Economic Development, Parking,
Neighborhoods, and selected members of the organized neighborhoods. Upon completion
staff will report back to the Planning Board with these different perspectives.
This memo is purposefully vague on details in an effort to initiate the conversation and
allow you an opportunity to create your own metrics for determining boundaries and how
the City or community member’s could use this as a tool to implementing the community
plan and measuring its efficacy. The following characteristics and consideration may be
employed to develop criteria on how to determine an appropriate boundary for a district
or Neighborhood. This is not an exhaustive list, only a starting point.
Arterial and collector streets
Schools
Historic structures or features
Sewer/water system
Fire service areas
Character
Parks, trails, and open space
Quadrants. We used the corner of Main and 19th for our online questionnaires
Economic conditions and BID’s, TIFF Districts, etc.
Environmental constraints such as water courses, wetlands, and other natural
features
Questions the Board might want to consider are as follows:
1. Should the city continue exploring defining the meaning of a districts and
neighborhoods?
2. Should the city consider using defined districts and neighborhoods as a tool for:
a) Communication and public engagement in governance,
b) Character preservation or creation,
c) Economic diversification
d) Determining future and use designation and zoning classification, or
e) Other consideration
The City hosts a wide variety of data on our Community Development Viewer. Please take a
few moments before the meeting and refresh your knowledge of the available data we
could consider when determining a neighborhood or district boundary. A direct link to the
viewer is HERE. Additional data is hosted on the Public Works viewer. These data sets
include water, sewer, drainage basins, transportation, and others. Please click HERE for the
public works data viewer. An example is shown in Figure 2 below.
Attachments: additional maps of other districts
Figure 1 – Existing neighborhoods
Figure 2 – Public works viewer example