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County attorney: city——suit over Bozeman Partnership zoning dismissed with prejudice
Summary
An attorney for Madison County told supervisors the City of Madison and Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit alleging improper meetings and payments tied to zoning changes affecting roughly 350 acres owned by the Bozeman Family Limited Partnership; discovery yielded no evidence of backroom deals, he said.
At a Madison County Board of Supervisors meeting, Robert, an attorney retained by the county, reported that the City of Madison and Mayor Mary Hawkins Butler voluntarily dismissed a lawsuit that had accused individual supervisors of secret meetings and improper payments connected to a zoning change affecting about 350 acres owned by the Bozeman Family Limited Partnership.
"I have been retained by the county to defend it," Robert said, summarizing the litigation and the county's response. He said the city alleged specific supervisors——identified in the complaint as Steen, Banks and Griffin——held "surreptitious meetings" tied to a land donation intended for ramps and access along Interstate 55 and the Union Parkway overpass.
Robert…
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