Current Number of Ideas: 339

Topic: Community/Quality of Life

We need an high quality aquatic center in the heart of our community.

105. One hundred and five. One-o-five. That is a lot, no matter how you say it. A simple search in the Yellow Pages shows that Billings has 105 casinos in the city. I don't even know if that is accurate but do we really need more casinos? Please get behind legislation for limited number of licenses per city, somewhat like liquor license rules. Billings needs to be leading the state forward.

-Retrofit and redevelop old dead parking lots. Turn at least one lot into a food-truck plaza. -We need a skate park appropriate to a city. I don't skate.

Discourage commercial offices on the ground floor in the downtown section, including real estate, law firms, bank offices, etc., and encourage food, art, coffee, shopping on the ground level.

-Establish community art projects to paint the grey pillars underneath the overpasses -Rebrand the city, dropping the stale label 'Magic City', replacing with 'Rim City' or 'Cliff City' -Develop the top of the rims commercially with restaurants, shopping, art, and performance -Build a tram to the top of the rims

- Pursue rail-to-trail development wherever possible. - Place a designated bike lane on 8th St. between Grand and Central - Place multi-use paths on Grand Ave, King Ave, and 24th

We have a litter problem. Please help facilitate road adoptions, use of people sentenced to community service, or help allocate funds to fix this.

I believe that the Billings area needs more affordable senior housing. Perhaps with government subsidy (like South 40). With our aging population this is a need that will become more and more evident. Also expansion of city bus lines to help with the expanding population. Also another large grocery store beyond Shiloh to meet the needs of an every growing population between Shiloh and 80th street.

I really like the idea that Yellowstone County Museum will be moved to near Yellowstone Kelly Grave. I like it for also being closer to Boot Hill. Better parking and being more on Bike trail are also advantages. Some improvement for bike trail are also needed to go with the moving of Museum. We need a piece of bike trail to get from 6th Avenue North to the Swords Park Bike trail that would go to the museum. This small piece of bike trail would go by Boot Hill. For bike people coming from tunnel under Main St., we need a short piece of bike trail to get from bike tunnel to Aronson St. and then Aronson to Swords bike trail. This bike trail would be built along alkali Creek and keep bikes off road to airport

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