Proposed growth policy for Great Falls emphasizes city’s core over urban sprawl

Proposed growth policy for Great Falls emphasizes city’s core over urban sprawl

The city of Great Falls has released a draft of its new growth policy, a document that aims to guide development decisions in Montana’s slowest-growing major city. The new document introduces a future land use map, which focuses on neighborhood characteristics and infrastructure to identify the types of commercial and residential densities that make sense for different parts of town. That planning incorporates requirements passed by the 2023 sta…