Editor's Note: The Chronicle has interviewed the three candidates for Bozeman mayor and will publish stories about their backgrounds and policy stances over three days this week. Profiles of the six City Commission candidates will follow. First in the mayoral race is John Meyer, followed by Brendan O’Connor and Douglas Fischer.

Environmental lawyer John Meyer is campaigning this fall for both the mayoral race and for a controversial ballot initiative affecting housing and water policy.

It's the second time Meyer, 44, has appeared on the ballot. He ran for mayor in 2023, where he got 3,991 votes — about 1,500 less than Deputy Mayor Joey Morrison, who won the election. Bozeman’s city charter holds that whoever wins the mayoral race first serves two years as deputy mayor, so Morrison wil

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