Gallatin opens 30-day public comment on 2025–2029 consolidated plan; proposes sidewalks in three low‑income census tracts

Gallatin City planning staff opened a 30‑day public comment period Oct. 2 on a draft citizen participation plan and the city’s consolidated plan for 2025–2029, saying the plans will guide how the city uses Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) dollars over the next five years.

Planning department staff said the city has placed a paper copy of the draft citizen participation plan on the lectern in City Hall and posted it on the planning department’s website, and that both plans were available for public review from Oct. 2 through Nov. 1. “This is for the adoption of the citizen participation plan and the consolidated plan for 2025 through 2029,” the staff member said.

The staff presentation said the draft consolidated plan concentrates proposed CDBG-funded public facilities projects in three eligible census tracts that meet the HUD definition of low‑ and moderate‑income areas and together comprise roughly 95% of Gallatin’s eligible census tracts. Staff identified proposed sidewalk and pedestrian-connection work along portions of Water Avenue, South…