During a meeting this week about the controversial unified development code rewrite, Bozeman residents urged city commissioners to more forcefully protect natural resources as the city grows.

The City Commission met for a work session about how natural resources fit into the unified development code and development processes, as one of the last informal discussions on the code before staff get to work on finalizing a draft .

A final work session is scheduled for Tuesday. It is a follow-up on previous conversations about mass and scale of buildings and zoning districts.

More than a dozen people sat through a nearly five-hour meeting Tuesday to give public comments related to agricultural ditches, waterways and wetlands, tree protections and the relation between sprawling or dense devel

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