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PCC MEMO: November 6, 2019 Prepared by: Jennifer Boyer
Upcoming PCC Meeting Schedule:
Tuesday, December 10, 2019 3:00-5:00pm, Community Room Courthouse.
https://gallatincomt.virtualtownhall.net/planning-community-development/pages/triangle-community-plan Notes from November 4, 2019 PCC Meeting
Bozeman Growth Policy Update: December 3, 2019 will host a public meeting. The plan is focused on the inside the boundary with a hard line urban boundary. The plan reduced 14 land use categories to 8 and emphasizes density, mixed use, live-work, a housing plan and annexation. 6 Themes: Neighborhoods (with centers of schools, parks etc). Downtown and Complimentary Districts Natural Environment Accessibility, Complete Streets and Mobility Economic Health Regional Coordination (ready to adopt the PCC plan!) Belgrade Growth Policy & Parks and Trails Plan Update: Began March 2019 and is now going before the City Council and Gallatin Commission. The new plans are considerably more in depth and the Park plan was essential to be enable public expenditures. CTA was contracted to do both plans at the same time and this fostered more involvement for the growth policy, nearly 10% of the population submitted comments. The overall goal is to promote a sense of community that is distinct, separate and an interesting place. The future land use map focuses on density where water and sewer services are located, with nodes of commercial and mixed use. The plan encourages neighborhood plans coming in before subdivision. Concerns include the fast rate of growth and housing costs. There is a focus on downtown to generate development interest (urban renewal and TIF district). Encourages taller buildings downtown now that fire ladders are updated. Opportunities for city-owned parking downtown. The Parks plan will be within the growth policy and includes an inventory of current parks and infrastructure and future opportunities and staffing needs. Surveys found residents willing to pay a little more on taxes to support parks and trails. One
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consideration is creating a parks district larger than the city limits (possibly school district boundary). Overall it fits nicely with the PCC Triangle Community Plan. And Belgrade will be ready to adopt the Triangle plan after the Belgrade Council and County Commission adopt the growth policy. Discussion / Comments:
• With Belgrade and Bozeman planning areas overlapping, how will that coordination be managed?
• Will Belgrade focus on annexation? It is not a big focus of the plan with constraints of gravity, airport, interstate.
• What are the opportunity sites that were identified? Aquatics facility near senior center, downtown streetscape, civic development downtown, convention center at airport, meeting rooms needed.
• More focus on urban core for Belgrade with reduced parking requirements.
• Focus on bike-pedestrian path.
• The Belgrade land use map focuses on developing neighborhood plans before development. Including the areas of residential low density (5-10 units per acre) that could be served by Four Corners Water and Sewer.
• Belgrade may need to re-evaluate the transportation plan. (RR crossing at Jackrabbit)
• Where will future industrial land be zoned since it is getting priced out of Bozeman? Belgrade has quite a bit of industrial zoning.
• The County works closely with Belgrade on the growth policy but what about Bozeman? There are different statutes that govern the review, but all include sections on inter-governmental coordination. Triangle Plan Outreach Public Comment spreadsheet will be shared with the PCC every Friday to track input.