HomeMy WebLinkAboutBCPTCU Change Summary 10-14-2025 Bozeman Community Plan
Technical Compliance Update
2025 Summary of Changes
The City is updating the Bozeman Community Plan (adopted in November 2020) to comply
with changed state law. Due to a constrained timeframe for compliance, the update is focused
on addressing those elements responsive to new state law. The plan contains five chapters
and four appendices. State law requires a review of the plan every five years. Adjustments are
made if found to be needed during the review.
Chapter 1 – Basics: A general overview of the plan and community, and the question of
engaging with and responding to growth. Updated data for population and descriptive data is
included. Updates to titles of related documents have been provided.
Chapter 2 – Themes: Identifies goals and policies. This the most aspirational section of the
document. Titles of related documents associated with each theme have been updated. Minor
adjustments to introductory text have been made due to passage of time and some updated
maps were provided to show current information. No changes were made to any goal or
objective. Goals and policies are not regulations but they inform and guide implementing
regulations.
Chapter 3 – Future Land Use: Establishes the geographic area for which the city plans. No
specific time frame of development is represented on the future land use map. Descriptions of
land use designations shown on the map explain general intentions and types of development
expected. Each designation has zoning districts that implement that designation. The names of
those zoning districts have been updated to match with the ongoing update to the Unified
Development Code.
Chapter 4 – Implementation: This chapter focuses on how the plan will move from the
written page to reality. Specific metrics to measure progress are identified and a short-term
task list is laid out. No changes to metrics were made. The task list was updated to remove
completed work.
Chapter 5 – Amendments and Review: Any plan evolves over time. This chapter describes
how that should happen and provides some summary information about the state required
process for considering land use plan amendments. It also provides a basic description of the
process for zone map and text amendments and for reviewing site development proposals.
Appendix A – Engagement and Process: A description of the process of completing the
plan initially and this technical update. Added the details of the update process.
Appendix B – Infrastructure and Supporting Data: State law leans heavily on information-
based decision making and planning. New subjects have been added to the content the City
must consider. This appendix has been entirely reformatted to better assemble the data in the
topic groups the state uses in the law. It describes the state required subject areas, identifies
data sources related to the subjects and provides some summary descriptions of key
information points. This appendix is a complete replacement to address both subject matter
and format changes.
Appendix C – History and Physical Setting: This chapter has had a minor update to bring it
current for events of the past five years and add some new historic images.
Appendix D – Glossary: Minor changes to improve description of the future land use map
and connect a hyperlink to the map.
Future Land Use Map (FLUM): Shows the geographic distribution of future uses within the
planning area. The FLUM is demonstrating a possible ultimate build out that will require much
longer than the 20-year planning period. The future land use map has been updated to reflect
amendments made since initial adoption and correct minor boundary errors.