Data / Money & policy / Land use policy
Future land use (city land use plans)
6 of the 10 MLUPA cities publish their future land use map as GIS: Belgrade, Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Kalispell, Missoula. Each city's own category is kept as the label and grouped into nine shared classes for colouring.
About this data
- Published by
- City planning departments (Belgrade, Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Kalispell, Missoula)
Growth policy / land use plan future land use maps (MLUPA cities) - Method
- Downloaded from Growth policy / land use plan future land use maps (MLUPA cities).
- Update frequency
- When plans are adopted or amended
- Last updated
- Oct 6, 2026
- Records
- 3,004
- Coverage
- 6 of the 10 MLUPA cities publish their future land use map as GIS: Belgrade, Billings, Bozeman, Great Falls, Kalispell, Missoula. Each city's own category is kept as the label and grouped into nine shared classes for colouring.
Records in 5 of 56 counties. - License
- Public record
Known gaps
No machine-readable map for Columbia Falls (City GIS (ArcGIS org of cityofcolumbiafalls) publishes zoning, planning boundaries and existing land use only; the growth-policy future land use map is a PDF.); Helena (City/county GIS (helenamontanamaps.org) publishes zoning, URDs and the Helena Valley (county) planning area; no city future land use layer found. Lewis & Clark County's Helena Valley land-use designations exist but are a county plan.); Laurel (No GIS future land use layer found; Montana Commerce's Laurel land-suitability analysis is not an adopted map.); Whitefish (No GIS future land use layer found (growth policy map is a PDF); Commerce hosts Whitefish zoning and TIF districts only.) Maps are policy guidance, not zoning; several cities are mid-way through MLUPA land use plan updates, so check the adoption status on the city's page.
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Fields
| Field | Column | Description |
|---|---|---|
| City | city | |
| Label | label | |
| Map code | code | |
| Category | category | Data 4 MT category. |
| Class | category_label | |
| Plan | plan | |
| Acres in this area | acres | GIS acres. |
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