Our Work

Our organization began taking shape with an outdoor conversation on a beautiful Montana fall day in mid-September of 2020.

Just two months later we had incorporated as a nonprofit and were actively participating in meeting of the City of Livingston Planning Board’s Growth Policy update process and Park County’s Planning Board’s conversation for a proposed Conflict Mitigation Zoning District.

Our consultants have illuminated concerns ranging from whether there was enough land for future growth inside the city’s city limits- to how rural residential sprawl threatens our agricultural lands, wildlife corridors, and the very bottom line of our local economy.

A detailed history of our Growth Policy advocacy with the City of Livingston Planning Board is linked here.

Links to a variety of online resource and educational materials about land use planning and zoning can be reviewed here.

Our participation in the Park County Planning Board’s Conflict Mitigation Zoning District proposal, as well as our concerns with regard to rural residential sprawl are detailed here.

Relevant webinars and online presentations which we and/or our consultants and associates have hosted can be viewed here.

While our aim and focus has primarily been on our local governmental boards and commissions, several bills floated in the 2021 Montana Legislative session inspired this letter to the governor and our representatives in Helena.

And an archive of our e-mail updates can be reviewed here.