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This platform is intended to provide opportunity for community engagement and to gather input on how to improve City of Bozeman Standards for Design and Construction and the City Modifications to the Montana Public Works Standard Specifications (MPWSS).
What are the Engineering Standards?
The Engineering Standards include two documents, the City of Bozeman Standards for Design and Construction and the City Modifications to the MPWSS. The overarching function of the Engineering Standards is to protect public health and safety, provide for clear design criteria, provide review procedures and inspection requirements, and generally promote operational efficiency while minimizing cost of public infrastructure.
Why are the Standards for Design and Construction and City Modifications being updated?
The current design standards were formally adopted in 2004 and have been updated via seven addendums since that time. Additionally, the MPWSS, sixth edition, from April 2010 has been revised, and a new comprehensive MPWSS Version 7 was recently released. The City Modifications to these standards must be updated to amend the MPWSS for local conditions.
Primary objectives of this comprehensive update are to modernize the standards, organize the standards for clarity, investigate and implement changes to advance affordable housing by minimizing life-cycle costs associated with public infrastructure, include design criteria from the City’s infrastructure facility plans, and ensure consistency with state and federal regulatory requirements (for example, Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD)).
A private consultant gathered input from City staff, the local development community, and stakeholders to update documents containing the existing City’s public works infrastructure design requirements. They used the input from the existing standards to develop the new draft standards.
City of Bozeman Design and Construction Standards Comment Form
If you have comments on the Final Draft City of Bozeman Design and Construction Standards that you would like to see implemented in the final document, please download the .pdf linked below, add your comments, and send your marked up version to Cathlyn Hammond at chammond@dowl.com. In your email, please include the marked-up document and section/paragraph number for reference. Please feel free to submit as many comments as you wish. The final public comment period for this draft is July 1 to July 22, 2024.
View the Updated Draft City of Bozeman Design and Construction Standards
City Modifications to MPWSS Comment Form
If you have comments on the Final Draft City Modifications to the MPWSS that you would like to see implemented in the final document, please download the .pdf linked below, add your comments, and send your marked up version to Cathlyn Hammond at chammond@dowl.com. In your email, please include the marked-up document and section/paragraph number for reference. Please feel free to submit as many comments as you wish. The final public comment period for this draft is July 1 to July 22, 2024.