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Livingston manager: staff working on 79% of growth‑policy strategies, zoning and parks work next
Summary
City Manager Grant Gager told the Livingston City Commission that staff have implemented or are actively working on the majority of actions in the city's 2021 growth policy, and outlined next steps including zoning code and parks master plan work.
City Manager Grant Gager told the Livingston City Commission that city staff have implemented dozens of items from the 2021 growth policy and are actively working on most of the remainder, giving commissioners a progress update and a road map for upcoming land‑use work.
Gager said the city has implemented 46 of the plan's 219 strategies, is "in progress on another 100 of them," and is in policy development on 26 more. "Staff is working on 79% of the strategies identified in [the] growth policy," he told the commission.
The growth policy, adopted in 2021, is organized around nine topic areas including land use, housing, transportation and natural resources; Gager said the update he presented ties ongoing programs and top priorities to those strategies so the commission and public can track next steps.
Gager outlined several items staff say will advance implementation in the near term: the zoning code update now before the consolidated land‑use board, an ongoing subdivision‑regulation review, the recently adopted planned‑unit development ordinance and the parks‑and‑trails master plan process. He said the zoning update addresses roughly two dozen growth‑policy strategies and the parks master plan will inform at least a dozen others.
On preservation and design, Gager noted the city has been working to meet State Historic Preservation Office requirements and that some strategies were advanced through a gateway overlay ordinance adopted earlier this year (ordinance 3054). On climate and infrastructure, he pointed to the city's Energy Action Plan and a completed tree inventory as building blocks for longer‑term measures.
Gager also described how staff are turning high‑level strategies into concrete actions: some items require regulatory change (zoning/subdivision updates), others are capital work (streets, stormwater, parks), some are data or mapping projects and still others depend on external grants or partnerships.
Asked how the commission will stay informed, Gager said departments will be brought before the commission during the regular budget and update cycles and that a formal review of the growth policy and the future land‑use map is expected to begin in 2026. "In 2026 when we... review the growth policy, a new and updated future land use map will be part of that effort," he said. He told commissioners staff would return with specific project budgets and public processes as individual initiatives move toward decision points.
As implementation continues, commissioners and members of the public urged clear ongoing outreach. Several commissioners said they want staff to continue placing public events, open houses and written updates where residents who don't use social media can find them.
The presentation was an informational update; there was no commission vote. Gager said staff will return with public hearings and formal agenda items as specific regulatory changes or capital projects reach the commission for decision.
