The Bozeman City Commission met on March 24, 2026, to deliberate and vote on the appeal of a commercial site plan for the Sundance Springs subdivision, adopt the Fiscal Years 2027–2031 Capital Improvements Plan (CIP), issue a mayoral proclamation, and hear public comments. Key outcomes included a 4-1 vote to uphold the director's conditional approval (with an added lighting condition) and unanimous adoption of the $300 million CIP.
Appeal of Sundance Springs Commercial Lot 2 Site Plan (Continuation from Feb 24, 2026) Assistant City Attorney Severin clarified that the hearing was closed on Feb 24; the commission’s sole task was to discuss and vote on whether to uphold, amend, or overturn the director’s conditional approval.
Fiscal Years 2027–2031 Capital Improvements Plan (CIP) Adoption
Mayoral Proclamation: First Contact Day (April 5, 2026)
Special Presentation: Transportation & Engineering Department
Commission FYI / Discussion
Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Tuesday, March twenty fourth, City Commission meeting of the city of Bozeman. We are glad that you are here joining us tonight. Um I'm gonna walk through a little bit of how the procedure is gonna look, um then we'll get the meeting underway. Um for those that are here in the room, you've obviously decided you're here, you're in the room with us, that's one way you can participate. Um anyone can stream online as well from our website and our meetings video page at Bozeman dot net. You can watch um from cable channel one ninety, and you can also tune in just with audio um by calling in to the phone number that's listed on all of our agenda packets. Um, but in if you participate in that way, you will not be able to give public comment, you'll just be listening to the meeting. Um if anybody is ever having a connectivity issue, you know, just back out and join again if you have any uh needs to be accommodated to participate or or hear and follow along today, our deputy clerk uh Mr. Alex Newby will be the point person to be able to help you out with that. And some of the ways to be able to participate in public comment today. This is sort of an odd meeting where we have an action item that does not have public accomplish comment associated with it, but normally every item following the appeal item will have public comment associated with them. That will include consent. That will include the section of general public comment that is on non-agenda items, as well as the following action items. Um three minutes in person, same kind of deal for each of those. Thank you. So as uh what moving on, do we have any changes to our agenda this evening? So good evening, Mayor. We have no changes tonight. Okay, no changes to our agenda. So we'll move on to our appeal, um, which is a continuation of a February meeting. Um, and I'll kick it over to our our deputy attorney um Sabird here in a moment to just kind of remind us what's on the menu for us tonight and how this procedure is gonna work as a catch up from where we were last time. Um, and just a reminder for everybody who's here. Um, that hearing incorporated the public comment record. So there's no new information to add to the record of the decision tonight. There won't be public comment associated with this item. There's been no new information from staff or otherwise to inform the decision for this evening. Um to add on that, or I can just hand it over. No, I'd like to uh just provide an opening comment from our assistant city attorney, as you said, that will set the stage for the deliberation and the decision that you will make today. Thank you, Mayor, members of the commission. Um, just to remind you that there was a site plan application submitted for the development of the commercial lots in the excuse me, Sundance Spring subdivision, and it was reviewed as all site uh plans are and was ultimately conditionally approved by the director of community development back in December of 2025, pursuant to uh the UDC at that time. Um a timely appeal was submitted by the um appellants in this case. And as a reminder, this is the second site plan that has been proposed for that property. The previous site plan was overturned on appeal. That uh appeal is completely separate and distinct from that, which is in front of you tonight, but for those few findings that the uh commission made that were incorporated and considered for this uh site plan that's before you. The appeal tonight at issue was notice. Public comment was accepted, and a hearing was held before this body on February 24th of 2026. At that hearing, city staff uh presented their um reasons for why they believed the appeal, or excuse me, the director's uh conditional approval should be upheld. The appellants proposed their reasons for why they believed the uh decision should be overturned, and we also heard from the property owner at that hearing. And uh, you all as commissioners had the chance to ask questions of all those presenters, and all that information is contained in the record. Uh public comment was also taken as the mayor indicated. And then at the conclusion of that meeting, the hearing closed. And the only thing that was continued till today was the discussion and vote. So today your sole job is to have that discussion and vote and to decide whether direct the director's conditional approval of the site plan application for the Sundance Springs uh commercial uh lots should be um upheld, amended, or overturned. And as a reminder, the commission is to consider only the relevant information in the record when making its findings and decision. Okay. Any questions or clarification on the process that we're completing this evening? Okay. Um I think we can just move on to starting with a motion and um discussion of relevant findings. Yeah, Commissioner Magic. Sure.