Research Reports

Cities in Montana use zoning to tell us what kind of houses can be built and where. They say whether we can have single-family housing in one neighborhood, or apartment buildings in another. The Montana Zoning Atlas 2.0 uses the National Zoning Atlas standardized methodology to evaluate 13 fast growing Montana counties to see how…

While regulation is necessary in some cases to protect health, safety and the environment, the accumulation of thousands of regulations has been shown to stifle economic growth and substantially increase the cost of doing business.