Space Bond News Today

Since the mid-1980s, 50,000 acres of ag land in Missoula County have been converted to other uses, according to the executive director of Trust Montana.

Missoula City Council rejects move to ban short-term rental tourist homes

Government meetings this week.

It’s often said that people overestimate what they can accomplish in one year and underestimate what they can do in ten years.

Theres over $12 million left from the $15 million voter-approved Open Space Bond of 2018, but Missoula County has more left of its share than the city.

“We did see a beautiful piece of agricultural land out there that’s slowly getting surrounded by development,” explained an Open Lands Committee member.

Calling it a legacy project that only comes along once in a generation, the Missoula City Council and Missoula County commissioners on Wednesday approved tapping into the Open Space Bond to purchase 480 acres on Marshall Mountain.

The owners placed a conservation easement on the 21.5-acre property earlier this year, meaning it cant be developed into new housing.

Missoula County commissioners are confident of securing funding

While the rest of Missoula fills in with housing and other development, residents of the Rattlesnake could see a large swath of developable land set aside as open space and protected in perpetuity.