Bridger Canyon Property Owners' Ass'n v. Planning & Zoning Commission for the Bridger Canyon Zoning District

This is an appeal from an Eighteenth Judicial District Court, Gallatin County, denial of a petition for writ of certiorari. We affirm in part and reverse in part.

We redefine the issues on appeal:

1. Did the District Court err in denying the writ of certiorari?

2. Did the Commission err in its conditional approval of 360 Ranch’s Planned Unit Development, specifically, its approval of single family housing in the Bridger Bowl Base Area?

FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Public hearings were held in Bozeman, Montana, in December, 1992 and January and February of 1993 to review the application of 360…