What is Clearly Belgrade?

Clearly Belgrade is the City's comprehensive, strategic planning effort to develop a unified and aligned vision for Transportation, Water/Wastewater Infrastructure, Land Use, and Parks, Recreation & Trails in the City of Belgrade. This effort will also develop an innovative web-based platform, unique to our community, that improves access and interaction with the City’s current and future planning documents.

This 3-year long master planning effort will look the city and surrounding area (the Belgrade Planning Area) to update the City's long-range planning documents to ensure they align and paint a CLEAR picture of Belgrade's future.

Active Projects

Background

Belgrade is experiencing unprecedented growth in and around the community. The most significant indicator of this growth is the number of new people who are moving to town. Belgrade will add somewhere between 4,800 and 6,000 people between 2019 and 2030 who will need adequate housing, service goods, and recreational activities to maintain the livability that attracts people to this community.

Responding to these projections, The City of Belgrade has completed a wide range of updates to existing planning and policy documents including design, transportation, water, and zoning in recent years. However, many were developed independent of one another and through various methods. The City hired a consultant team (Cushing Terrell) to complete a Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats (SWOT) Analysis which concluded in July 2022. The SWOT analysis included an investigation on the age and implementation status of each document, how the documents are used by staff and public, and potential conflicting information. The analysis concluded with a recommendation for the city to:

"Consider a more comprehensive step forward in updating its Guiding Documents. We recommend that the City move beyond more pdf-based documents and be a leader in Montana and develop a comprehensive set of documents that is master plan based but most importantly and interactive web-based document that is user friendly for both staff and public."

This recommendation established the foundation for the Clearly Belgrade master planning effort.

Overall Master Planning Projects

The overall project will touch over 12 planning documents from a variety of sources while collaborating with local, regional, and state partner agencies informed by the valuable input of residents, businesses, and stakeholders throughout our community..

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