Boom to Bust in Bozeman, Big Sky and Missoula?

The blush is off the rose. Twenty minutes to get across town on Main Street. Disappearing open space. Crowded fishing, floating and hiking venues. Bozeman is starting to lose its draw. Anyone visiting Bozeman and willing to plunk down a quarter-of-a-million dollars (minimum) for a home, is thinking twice about trading the traffic jam where they came from for the bumper-to-bumper of Bozeman.

Could Big Sky be next?

Rampant growth isn’t quite as apparent in Missoula, yet. It’s a larger town so it absorbs development better and the changes are less noticeable. But with a city growth policy that’s going backward, not forward, and no zoning in the county, Missoula’s day of reckoning is coming.

By Pete Talbot

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