Missoula County Subdivision Regulation Routine Maintenance 2024

The Missoula County Department of Planning, Development and Sustainability is completing routine maintenance to the Missoula County Subdivision Regulations that were last updated in 2020. This routine maintenance is intended to address regulatory changes from previous Montana legislative sessions. When a conflict between state statutes and local regulations exists, staff always follows the state statute.

Key legislative changes from the 2022 session include an expedited timeline for exemptions in subdivision, changes to the family transfer exemption, a process for review of administrative minor subdivisions, and changes to new information with phased development.

Staff also made amendments where the code needed clarifications, better alignment with processes or procedures and general housekeeping. Finally, staff changed any typographical errors and made copy edits throughout the regulations.

Staff hosted an online informational meeting on this routine maintenance on Feb. 1. Join the meeting via Microsoft Teams, meeting ID: 264 715 181 736, passcode: 4p23sM. You can also join via the phone at 406-272-4824, ID 171198297.

The Missoula City-County Consolidated Planning Board opened a public hearing on these updates at their regularly scheduled meetings on Feb. 6 and made a recommendation on Feb. 20.

The Missoula County commissioners then opened their hearing and made a decision on these updates on April 11.

You can find the adopted maintenance updates on this page under "Documents" on the right-hand side. Please keep in mind these documents have not been formatted to their final version. After final adoption of the maintenance updates, the documents will be reformatted and published.

Watch the informational meeting staff held on Feb. 1 below: