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COMMISSION RESOLUTION NO. 3492
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF BOZEMAN,
MONT ANA, ADOPTING THE CRITICAL LANDS STUDY AS A PLANNING
DOCUMENT FOR THE CITY OF BOZEMAN AND ACCORDINGLY CHANGING
THE DESIGNATION TO CRITICAL LANDS PLAN.
WHEREAS, the City of Bozeman recognizes the negative impact growth and development
could have on critical lands and therefore on the City's quality of life, and
WHEREAS, the City of Bozeman recognizes the threats to life and property associated
with developing areas characterized by natural constraints, and
WHEREAS, the City of Bozeman recognizes the need to ensure that development occurs
in a location and manner that protects life and property, and
WHEREAS, in 1994 the City of Bozeman and Gallatin County directed the Bozeman City-
County Planning Board to prepare a Critical Lands Plan for the Bozeman City-County
Planning
Jurisdiction; and
WHEREAS, during 1996 and 1997 the Bozeman City-County Planning Board worked
closely with the Bozeman City-County Planning Office staff, as well as natural
resource
professionals from local, state, and federal agencies, to prepare a Critical Lands
Plan document;
and
WHEREAS, this document contains information for the following critical lands: wetlands;
floodplains; rivers, streams, and ditches; aquifers and recharge zones; geologic
constraints;
farmland and open space; and fish and wildlife habitat, and
WHEREAS,
this document contains the following information
for critical lands:
background, extent within the Bozeman City-County Planning Jurisdiction, maps,
regulations and
protection programs, goals and objectives, and protection options, and
WHEREAS, a Master Plan Amendment was proposed to include the Critical Lands Plan
as
an element of the 1983 Bozeman Area Master Plan and the 1990 Bozeman Area Master
Plan
Update, and
WHEREAS, the Bozeman City-County Planning Board held a public forum to introduce
the
plan on April 1, 1997, and
WHEREAS, the Bozeman City-County Planning board held a public hearing on the
proposed Master Plan Amendment on April 15, 1997, and
WHEREAS, on May 6, 1997, the Planning Board considered all public testimony and
letters received and voted 5 to 3 in support of the Amendment, and
WHEREAS, the Bozeman City Commission held a public hearing to consider the Critical
Lands Plan Master Plan Amendment on May 19, 1997, and
WHEREAS, although the Bozeman City Commission recommended approval of the
application, the Master Plan was not amended to include the Critical Lands Plan
because the
requisite approval of Gallatin County was denied; and
WHEREAS, the Bozeman City Commission voted 5 to 0 to rename the document the
Critical Lands Study and recommend it as a resource document to be used by staff,
the City-
County Planning Board, and the City Commission, and
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WHEREAS, the information contained in the Critical lands Study is still relevant to the
planning area for the City's proposed new growth policy, and
WHEREAS, Section 76-1-601, M.C.A., requires that growth policies include maps and text
describing an inventory of the existing natural resource characteristics and features
of the
jurisdictional area, and
WHEREAS, Section 76-1-601, M.C.A., also requires growth policies to include projected
natural resource trends for the life of the growth policy, and
WHEREAS, the Critical lands Study document fulfills these requirements for the Bozeman
area and is therefore incorporated into the Bozeman 2020 Community Plan, the City's
growth
policy.
NOW, THEREFORE. BE IT RESOLVED by the City Commission of the City of Bozeman,
Montana, that the Critical lands Study shall be designated as the Critical lands
Plan, and that the
Critical lands Plan be and is hereby adopted as the City's guiding policy regarding
the protection
of life and property in relation to critical lands, as well as the protection of
the critical lands
themselves.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Commission of the City of Bozeman, Montana, at
a regular session thereof held on the 22nd day of October, 2001.
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MARCIA B. YOU~ayor
ATTEST:
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R BIN L. SUlLlV N
Clerk of the Commission
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