The four-day workshop was held in the same year that the city adopted the Neighborhood Conservation Overlay District (NCOD) to “support a sense of place and preserve the historic districts and neighborhood character.” The workshop explored community goals focused on preserving and capitalizing on local cultural resources, as well as developing an active central business district. 

Local co-sponsors included the Montana Preservation Alliance, Montana State University College of Arts, and Montana State University Extension Service. The first two days opened with foundational lectures on design changes and processes in rural communities led by key Your Town leaders Shelley Mastran from the Rural Heritage program at the National Trust for Historic Preservation and Richard Hawks from the Landscape Architecture program at SUNY Syracuse's College of Environmental Science and Forestry. Core programming included lectures and case study analysis of cultural resource inventorying; a walking tour of Bozeman led by local city officials, planners, preservationists, designers, and engineers; and a culminating participatory design workshop focused on the Main Street corridor, transportation, and land use. 

Learn more from the Bozeman Workshop Notebook.