Category: Smart Growth

Can’t do Infill – Lot Width Minimums

Post author By Mark Egge
Post date December 7, 2020
Categories In Bozeman, Smart Growth, Thoughts

I’m highly interested in building some sort of infill project in the northeast neighborhood. My primary intention is add additional units of housing (in part to offset my own guilt about being “part of the problem”). I also just think it would be neat to build something add something to the neighborhood and community. The […]

Summer Reading List

Post author By Mark Egge
Post date May 23, 2020
Categories In Bozeman, Rants, Smart Growth

Interested in some light summer reading? Consider picking up a copy of Bozeman’s Unified Development Code! Carve out some time, though—it’s longer than Kafka’s The Trial and The Castle combined. Critics are calling Bozeman’s little book of rules: “A haunting chronicle of stifling and inhuman bureaucracy—Kafkaesque in the fullest sense.” “Essential reading for affordability advocates.” […]

Making Bozeman a Better Place to Bike and Walk

Post author By Mark Egge
Post date January 6, 2019
Categories In Bozeman, Public, Smart Growth, Transportation

An Open Letter to Bozeman City Commission Re: Making Bozeman a Better Place to Bike and Walk 6 January 2019 Madame Mayor, Mr. Deputy Mayor, and Commissioners: Bozeman’s Strategic Plan rightly calls for increased participation in active transportation. Active transportation makes our community healthier by improving physical health and air quality and improves the livability […]