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Bozeman Development Consortium - Survey #1

Welcome to the first in a series of surveys designed to help establish the Bozeman Development Consortium as a voice for the Development Industry in Bozeman City Policy. In this Survey, we will be asking you for feedback about Development Processes and Policies.

For those of you joining us because you signed our Petition, please know that we appreciate your support. For those of you who are not familiar with our Mission, to learn about our goals and see who has signed the petition, please go to:

www.bzndevconsortium.com

We hope that these surveys will be brief and easy. One note though, while you can fill these out anonymously, we would ask you to consider letting us know who you are and what you do in the Development Industry so that we can more easily match respondents across more than one survey.
1.What is your primary role in Bozeman's Development Industry?
2.How long have you worked in Bozeman Development?
3.What types of development process have you been through?
4.How many Development Projects have you contributed to in Bozeman?
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50
100
5.For the next three questions, please make sure your answers total 100%

What percentage of these projects are residential?
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50
100
6.What percentage of these projects are commercial?
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50
100
7.What percentage of these projects are land only (i.e. subdivision and lot sales)?
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50
100
8.What is your best estimate of value (in millions of dollars) of the projects you have contributed to in Bozeman?
9.How many projects have you taken through the Bozeman Planning Dept?
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50
100
10.How many projects have you taken through the Bozeman Building Dept?
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50
100
11.Considering the projects you have taken through the City of Bozeman, please tell us your view of the steps in the process (enter N.A. if you did not use a particular step)
Great
OK
Neutral
Not so good
Needs work
Informal Review Application
Informal Review
Formal Review Application
Formal Review
DRC Recommendation
Receptiveness & Responsivity
Timeliness & Turnaround
City Commission Decision
Project Denied
Project Approved
Project Preliminary/Conditional Approval
Permit Granted
Building Inspection
Certificate of Occupancy
12.Regarding the development steps above please add additional detail for any step you rated lower than "OK":
13.When you have had difficulty moving a project through the City of Bozeman, was the difficulty due to or were the following policy conflicts cited...
Everytime
Frequently
Regularly
Sometimes
Rarely
Growth Policy/Community Plan
Review Turnaround Time
Staff Availability
DRC Review Issues
Repeated iterations of the Review and Comments Process
Uniform Development Code (UDC) Issues
Inspection Availability
Inspection Results
Policy Impact on Cost
Policy Impact on Process
Online Submission Difficulties
14.Have you ever had an unexpected delay with an approval?
15.Regarding the difficulties listed above for please add any pertinent comments for any difficulty that had a frequency of greater than "Sometimes":
16.When thinking of your projects and the turnaround time to get to a site plan approval, building permit, or other executable point:
Considerably more
Somewhat More
About expected
Somewhat less
Considerably less
Completion time
Completion time compared to other jurisdictions you have worked in
Was there a financial impact due to the turnaround time
17.Given your past and current experiences with Bozeman City Development Processes and Policies, are there additional examples, or constructive feedback that you would like to provide?
18.From a governance and policy standpoint, do you think that:
Very much so
Somewhat
Neutral
Not really
Definitely not
The City Commission understands and appreciates the role, goals, and contributions of the Bozeman Development Community to the success of Bozeman.
The City Commission has made themselves accountable to the Bozeman Development Community as a primary source of quality of living and property taxes.
The City Commission has an obligation to engage with the Development Community as an industry.
City Policies reflect an awareness of the Development Process.
City Policies reflect an awareness of the costs of Development.
19.Are you aware of Bozeman's new streamlining plan for the Planning and Building Depts?
20.Are you aware of the Bozeman's new Uniform Development Code Revision Web Site?
21.It is optional, but we would appreciate your name and business info to help correlate subsequent surveys:
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