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Council preliminarily adopts master fee schedule ordinance and advances parking, speed-limit changes to public hearing
Summary
Council gave preliminary approval or set final-hearing dates for a city master fee schedule ordinance and provisional adoption for updates to parking and speed-limit code; public hearings were set for April 21, 2025 for fee schedule and parking updates.
Belgrade City Council moved several citywide code items forward at the meeting, preliminarily adopting a master fee-schedule ordinance and provisionally adopting updates to parking and speed-limit code; public hearings on final adoption were scheduled.
Staff presented an ordinance to establish a master fee schedule, codify procedures for annual updates by resolution and publish a single source for city fees. Council preliminarily adopted the ordinance and set a public hearing for final adoption on April 21, 2025. Staff said a finalized fee schedule and accompanying resolution will be provided to council before the hearing.
The council also provisionally adopted Ordinance 2025-3 to amend Title 5, Chapter 4 (parking). Major changes include stricter language prohibiting storage of trailers and recreational vehicles in the public right-of-way (with officer discretion and exemptions for actively hitched/temporarily used trailers), a prohibition on obstructing mailboxes, an increase in civil parking fines from $20 to $40, and an increase in the city's storage fee for vehicles from $100 to $175 per month if the city must store a vehicle on city property. Staff said the change follows two years of enforcement experience under the revised 2023 code and came after consultation with police and code-enforcement staff.
Council also provisionally adopted Ordinance 2025-4 to reorganize and modernize speed-limit rules in Title 5, Chapter 2. The revision replaces a street-by-street listing with an engineering-warrants process (staff-driven, administrative) for setting special speed zones, which staff and the police department said makes enforcement clearer. Staff emphasized the city cannot set speed limits on state highways (such as portions of Main Street); the new approach allows staff to set school-zone times and special limits after engineering analysis and to remove fixed time limits when school is not in session.
All three pieces of proposed code will return for final action after the posted public-notice and hearing periods. Council voted unanimously to set hearings and provisionally adopt the parking and speed amendments.
