A Valuable Lesson Learned with the Conflict Mitigation Zoning District Regulations.

The Wall Street Journal: Growing populations of towns in ‘wildland-urban interface’ is a key reason for rising wildfire threat in the West, researchers say.

GovOS: The popularity of short-term rentals shows no signs of slowing down, creating complex issues for local governments.

Park County Proposed Conflict Mitigation Regulations, County Improves Public Participation Rules but comes up short implementing them, Bus Tour to the Future, Livingston Growth Policy, and more!

The Park County Housing Coalition, collaboratively launched by the Park County Community Foundation and Human Resource Development Council of District IX (HRDC), is releasing the 2021 Park County Housing Needs Assessment. This assessment compiles information to document our community-wide housing challenge.

Mountain Journal: Maybe the only hope we have to stop our towns and wild places from changing is to change our belief that their destruction is inevitable. But, as Timothy Tate writes, it's almost impossible to do.

Education for Action. Friends of Park County’s Bus to the Future Tour discusses the future of Park County.

Park County’s Draft Conflict Mitigation Regulations – not a substitute for zoning but we can make them better, with your help. Plus Park County Community Foundation's GIVE A GOOT Fundraising Campaign kicks off.

East Idaho News: Idaho’s picturesque views and endless supply of outdoor recreational opportunities have always attracted visitors — tourists and new residents alike. But the dynamic changed in the past decade, with the rise of third-party rental websites like Airbnb, VRBO and Vacasa.

A potential giant development on Heart K Ranch, Joint Meeting of Livingston and Park County Planning Boards discuss the future of the land around the City, Dennis Glick’s Cautionary Reflections, and more!

Montana Free Press: As home prices soar and people move in, Flathead Valley residents are stymied by a dwindling supply of rental properties. For Kalispell’s Amber Hogan, that means pulling up roots and leaving Montana.

Conflict Mitigation and Beyond, plus your chance to testify before Livingston City Commission on the draft Growth Policy; Friends of Park County suggests some final improvements; massive Heart K Ranch development on the agenda too.

Livingston Planning Board completes its work, dramatically improving the draft Growth Policy. Park County draft Conflict Mitigation Ordinance sent out for public comment. Several bad land use bills have just been passed by the Montana Legislature; others still a threat as session draws to a close.

Our efforts to persuade the Park County Planning Board to take action to stop rural sprawl. The final deliberations on the Livingston GrowthPolicy – including critical discussions about how to turn an advisory policy statement into reality on the ground.

Montana Business Quarterly: The lack of affordable housing has been an increasingly difficult problem for many Montana communities. With relatively few affordable homes available for households earning a low income, and with much of the existing affordable inventory aging and in need of rehabilitation, many households earning a low income are being priced out of housing markets.

The Livingston Planning Board has made great strides in transforming a very ordinary, sprawlaccepting growth policy into a strong statement in favor of compact, traditional pattern of development and the protection of the farmlands, ranch lands and wildlife habitat around the city from rural sprawl.

Mountain Journal: Robert Liberty is a nationally-respected expert on smart—and dumb—ways communities grow. The patterns of development outside of Yellowstone Park alarm him. But hope is not lost. Yet.

Rural Residential Sprawl: What is it? Can it be stopped?

Friends of Park County is a nonprofit organization focused 100% on a single issue – protecting the communities, lands and resources of Park County from unmanaged growth. We need your help to meet this challenge.

Bloomberg: Out-of-state buyers push western Montana home prices up 17%. Local Montanans face New York-Style Affordability Crunch.