Dick Thweatt for Helena.

I’m running for election to the Helena City Commission and I need your support and your vote on Nov.3rd. We all live in Helena for similar reasons. We want a small-town quality of life set in a Montana landscape. We want a city as livable and sustainable as the surrounding landscape is spacious and natural.

  • This means coming together as a community to shape Helena’s future to ensure that our economy thrives while becoming increasingly environmentally sustainable and retaining our small-town quality of life.

  • It means a community of neighborhoods built to a pedestrian scale like our older ones, where children can safely walk to school and neighbors greet each other on the street, and cars and bicycles share the streets in harmony.

  • It means creating incentives to re-develop and revitalize the heart of our community, like Downtown, the Sixth Ward, and Capital Hill Mall, into mixed-use neighborhood centers where all kinds of people can live, work, learn, shop, and play.

  • It means gradually transforming our commercial districts into more attractive entryways, and into places for people as well as cars.

  • It means developing a growth policy specific enough to guide where and how our community will grow, rather than the unpredictable and confrontational, ad hoc decision-making process of the past.

  • It means adopting the land use regulations and market incentives necessary to make the growth policy effective.

  • It means a community offering affordable housing choices, and economic, educational, and cultural opportunities for a diverse population.

  • It means being responsible stewards of city open space lands and forests, protecting both public safety and biological diversity.

  • It means continued close cooperation with Lewis & Clark County.

  • It means keeping Helena the unique and desirable place that it is to live, work, learn, and play.

Dick Tweatt
Dick Thweatt

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"Having worked with Dick Thweatt over the years on numerous community planning projects in the City of Helena and in Lewis and Clark County, I value his hard work, objectiveness, but above all his commitment to finding solutions that can benefit everyone. Dick’s knowledge and experience will be an invaluable asset to the City Council, particularly as it addresses the City’s biggest challenge……planning for the future."

Jerry Grebenc,
professional planner and former Director of Community Development for Lewis and Clark County.