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Consultant summarizes focus‑group findings; planners outline state‑driven zoning changes
Summary
Cushing Terrell summarized focus‑group findings highlighting housing shortages, river and trails preservation, childcare constraints, and options to ease lot sizes and ADU rules. City planners outlined state bills that mandate permitting ADUs/duplexes and increase commercial heights and altered parking requirements, shaping the forthcoming land‑use code rewrite.
Consultants and city planning staff used the meeting to update the commission on community focus‑group findings and on how recent Montana legislation limits and directs local zoning decisions.
Consultant Nora Bland, director of planning for Cushing Terrell, reviewed summary themes from focus groups and stakeholder interviews: housing affordability and availability are limiting employers’ ability to retain staff, summer conversions of long‑term units to short‑term rentals worsen staffing stress during peak season,…
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