“I don’t think what people are really pushing against is density, it’s dysfunction. When density is not done well with the appropriate infrastructure — ability to provide services, traffic flow, pedestrian facilities, transit facilities — when you do density without those things you do get dysfunction,” Talago said. “I think people are tired of new development that erodes quality of life.”

“Nobody was doing the job… and the job is to maximize community benefit to do projects that serve the community. ” I’m so excited to finally be able to share […]

The two requests came from neighbors near Centennial Park and in the Bon Ton Historic District south of downtown. Both are in small pockets of R-4, residential high density zoning, and adjacent on some sides to areas of lower-density zoning.

City staff approved resubmitted and scaled down plans earlier this year. Nearby residents filed an appeal in March and commissioners met earlier this month for a hearing on the appeal, but delayed the vote at that meeting after it stretched past the five-hour mark.

“Policy changes are subject to things like engagement, noticing, public hearings”

A proposed project on North 5th Avenue in Bozeman that has been the subject of much pushback from the midtown neighborhood has been put back