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Today I’m setting out on a solo, self-supported mountain bike ride tracing a modified version of the Continental Divide Trail (CDT) – the hiking trail (not the more common Great Divide Mountain Bike Route). My goal is to contribute to defining a canonical, bike-legal version of the CDT and to set a realistic benchmark for how […]

Bozeman could learn a lot from Fayetteville, Arkansas. Fayetteville is a university town in the Ozarks that’s become an amenity destination for many of the same reasons as Bozeman (vibrant city, recreational opportunities, strong economy). In its recent rankings, People For Bikes identified Fayetteville as one of Bozeman’s peer cities. You’ll note in the rankings that Fayetteville recently blew […]

Bozeman’s new draft development code uses a form-based approach to residential zoning. According to the Form-Based Codes Institute, A form-based code is a land development regulation that fosters predictable built results and a high-quality public realm by using physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle for the code. The purpose of a form-based code is to […]

While headlines concerning the 2023 Montana Legislative session were dominated by efforts of the Republican supermajority to dismember Montana’s constitution and strip the rights of women and trans Montanans, there was at least one vibrantly bipartisan issue in Helena this year: implementing zoning reforms to clear obstacles to creating the housing needed for Montana to […]