Montana Transportation Choices
Transportation Choices to Enhance Community Character,
Public Safety, Economic Vitality, and Natural Landscapes in Montana
Montana's state transportation program represents a major force shaping the state's cities, towns, and countryside as well as a major influence on the state's economy and quality of life. The Montana Transportation Choices Study evaluates the state's program in light of current guidelines, goals, and requirements contained in federal transportation laws, and compares Montana's transportation program to best practices among the states in key policy areas of importance to Montana's citizens.

Details of the study findings have been published in a set of issue papers addressing issues and topics identified by stakeholders from across Montana:

This project was organized and funded through the Western Montana Alliance for Sustainable Transportation (WestMAST), in conjunction with the Montana Smart Growth Coalition.

Getting the Growth You Want:
A Citizen's Guide to Subdivisions and Smart Growth
What to know more about how to help or halt a new subdivision? This guide is for you, whether you're a concerned citizen, neighborhood activist, planning board member or an elected official. Getting the Growth You Want (1.1 meg PDF file) covers the basics of how subdivisions in Montana are proposed (and either approved or denied); what makes a good subdivision; and how to get involved.

Tools for Smart Growth
Visit our new resource Tools for Smart Growth in Montana, an online collection of success stories on how communities and counties in Montana and the intermountain West are making the six smart growth goals below a reality. You will also find links to the enabling regulations and plans that made these goals a reality.

The 2001 State of Growth in Montana:
The State and Impact of Growth and Planning in Montana
This report details the impacts that Montana's unplanned growth and sprawl has had on farming and ranching, affordable housing, transportation, and on twelve of the state's fastest growing counties. The purpose of the report is to bring together, for the first time, data and information relating to how Montana is growing, including information available from the 2000 Census.