Cascade County is undertaking a second round of comprehensive amendments to its Cascade County Zoning Regulations (CCZR), driven by 2025 Montana statutory changes and internal usability issues. Planning staff have documented extensive edits—consolidating and simplifying definitions, clarifying growth policy references, revising interpretation authority, removing unenforceable landscaping requirements, updating gravel/mining standards, aligning with nonconforming use statutes, restructuring residential and agriculture zones, adding Public Lands & Institutions and Agriculture Industrial Overlays, and reconsidering airport/military overlay mapping and data center/FFL treatment. Staff comments explicitly recommend reorganizing the document into a “modern usable regulation,” grouping scattered design/fencing/sign standards and application/variance/waiver procedures, and adding a comprehensive use table and clearer permit hierarchy.While no consultant is mentioned, this level of restructuring and statutory crosswalk often leads counties to seek outside planning, legal, GIS, and document-production support, especially for mapping overlays, creating cross-reference indices, and implementing new administrative workflows and digital forms. Vendors in planning and zoning consulting, municipal law, technical writing/codification, GIS mapping, and permitting workflow software can engage as Cascade County moves from draft amendments toward final adoption and implementation.

Document indicates intent to move all zoning maps to exhibits, create an index of changes for each update, standardize definitions across zoning, subdivision, and flood regulations, and refine nonconforming-use handling in light of recent legislative changes; military and airport overlays are flagged as particularly problematic due to poor existing mapping.