Contact Information:

Rick Hartz, County Planner

Beaverhead County Land Use and Planning Department
Beaverhead County Courthouse
2 South Pacific Street STE #7
Dillon, Montana 59725 
Phone: (406) 683-3765

Fax: (406) 683-3769
E-mail: rhartz@co.beaverhead.mt.us

Hours: 8 a.m. to noon - 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Closed Holidays

 

Mission:

The Land Use and Planning Department provides technical planning assistance as well as land use and development services in Beaverhead County. The Department:

• Provides staff support to the following advisory and decisions making bodies:
  County Commission
  Town of Lima
  County Planning Board
  County Airport Board
• Provides technical planning support to the County Commission, Planning Board, and general public for the development and implementation of the Beaverhead County Growth Policy and other land use plans.
• Manages and administers the County’s Subdivision Regulations, as well as a variety of other land use ordinances and regulations.
• Provides staff support and issues permits as part of the Big Hole River Conservation development Standards and Permitting Process.
• Administers and reports to County Commission on applications as part of the Beaverhead County Wireless Communications Facilities Ordinance.
• Reviews and reports to decision-making bodies on subdivision proposals.
• Administrates and issues permits as part of the Airport Affected Area Regulations for the Dillon Airport.

Provided Services:

Land Use & Planning Department

Subdivision:

• Certificates of Surveys (COS)

• Exemptions

• Applying for subdivision, hearings, etc.

• Subdivision Regulations

• Subdivision and COS process

Land Use Permits:

• Big Hole River Conservation Development Standards

• Application Process

• Wireless Communication Facilities Permit Process

• Dillon Airport Affect Area Ordinance

Long Range Planning:

• Beaverhead County Growth Policy

• Area Plans

• Resource Use Plan

Planning Department:

• Application Fees

• Reports

• Current Activities

• Planning Board Bylaws

• Planning Board Expectations

Planning Board:

The Planning Board meets the second Thursday of each month at 1:00 P.M. in the Multi-purpose Room of the Law Enforcement Annex of the Beaverhead County Courthouse.

The nine Board members are appointed by the County Commissioners and serve two-year terms. One of the members of the Board must also be a member of the Beaverhead County Conservation District.

Members serve 2-year terms.

For a list of county planning board members, please click here.

Subdivision:

• Beaverhead County Consultant List
• 2010 Subdivision Step by Step Process Application Package
• Beaverhead County 2010 Subdivision Regulations
• BVHD Revegetation Plan
• Subdivision Weed Management Plan
• Surveyor Information Form
• Surveyor Process Notice
• Weed Beaverhead County Weed District
• Weed Board Resolution
• Weed Plan Approval Notary Form
• 2009 Fee Schedule for Planning & Sanitation

Land Use Permits:

• Big Hole River Conservation Development Standards
  Ordinance and Application Form
• Wireless Communication Facilities Ordinance
• Wireless Communication Facilities Application
• Append A (Map) Dillon AAA
• Append B (Map) Dillon AAA
• Append C (Map) Dillon AAA
• Append D (Map) Dillon AAA
• Append E Dillon AAA
• Append F Page 1 Dillon AAA
• Append F page 2 AAA
• Append F Page 3 Dillon AAA
• Append F page 4 AAA
• Append F Page 5 Dillon AAA
• Append F page 6 AAA
• DILLON AAA REGS EFFECT
• AAA Permit and Variance Application

Planning Department:

• 2009 Fee Schedule for Planning & Sanitation
• Zoning Petitions Policy
• Planning Board Bylaws May 2009
• Planning Board Public Meeting/Hearing Expectations
• Right to Farm Ordinance
• 2009 Year End Report and Septic Report Chart
• www.montanaplanners.org/
• Code of the New West

Long Range Planning:

• Beaverhead County Growth Policy
• North Dillon Area Plan
• Grasshopper Area Plan
• Big Hole River Watershed Land Use Plan
• Public Lands Resource Use Policy and Plan Adopted July 2010
• Dillon Growth Area Plan Adopted July 2010

What’s New?

• Future Growth Patterns Study
• Future Growth Patterns
• Fiscal Impact Analysis of Future Growth Scenarios

Agenda and Minutes:

• click here for the Land Use and Planning Department agendas and minutes