What are Optional Content and Neighborhood Plans for Growth Policies? 

In addition to the minimum requirements set forth in the statute, growth policies may also contain additional information, policies, goals, or objectives of the community, 76-1-601(4), MCA. For instance, the growth policy may contain an infrastructure plan to help the community project infrastructure needs over the next 20 years, identify a future land use map of where the community seeks to develop into the future, and set forth incentives and techniques for guiding growth into those areas, 76-1-­601(4)(c), MCA. In addition, a growth policy may contain one or more neighborhood plans, which can provide more detailed long-term comprehensive planning for a more focused area within the jurisdiction, whose residents may have different or more cohesive goals, objectives, and strategies than elsewhere in the community. A community may have a growth policy in place and 8. Land Use and Planning Law in Montana 184 then adopt a separately developed neighborhood plan as an amendment to the growth policy.