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City staff reports progress on Livingston’s 2021 growth policy; consultant funding, waterway and stormwater work planned
Summary
City Manager Grant Gager told the commission that roughly one-third (73) of the 219 strategies in the 2021 growth policy have been implemented, with key next steps including a waterway study, stormwater evaluation, and a consultant-led update funded in part by $25,000 appropriated in FY2026.
City Manager Grant Gager briefed the Livingston City Commission on Jan. 6 about progress implementing the 2021 growth policy and laid out near-term priorities including a waterway study, technical zoning changes, public-works design updates and a stormwater evaluation.
"Fully one third of them, 73 have been implemented," Gager said, summarizing staff’s accounting of the 219 strategies in the plan. He said roughly 85 strategies are in progress, 29 are in policy development, and 32 have not yet been started.
Gager described recent accomplishments: adoption of a parks master plan; ordinance 3064 (zoning-code text); resolutions 5179 and 5180 (map and overlay adjustments); ordinance 3065 (floodplain regulation updates to align with state standards and the National Flood Insurance Program); and ordinance 3066 (subdivision regulation updates). Looking ahead, he identified a waterway study to better define floodplain regulations for different local waterways, a technical zoning-text amendment for uses in the industrial zone, and staff-level updates to public-works design standards to align with subdivision rules.
Commissioners asked whether the update would use a consultant and about funding. Gager said the FY2026 budget includes funding for consultant work and that the city estimates a consultant engagement of roughly $50,000; he stated about $25,000 has been appropriated in the current year. He described the procurement sequence: scope development, a public Request for Proposals, review, and (depending on dollar thresholds) commission consideration. Gager told the commission he typically allows six months for procurement and that outreach would include meetings required by state law for a growth-policy update.
Commissioners identified immediate priorities for the update: stormwater management, waterway and floodplain work, completing the industrial zoning text amendment, annexation policy review, urban-forest/pest management (including Emerald Ash Borer response), and discussions about economic-development and wayfinding. Several members requested educational briefings for the newly sworn commissioners on complex issues like stormwater, floodplain regulation and the river’s changing conditions since the flood.
What happens next: staff will draft an RFP scope and bring it to the commission for input before release; the clerk will coordinate procurement timing and public engagement for the update process.
