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HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-05-16 Public Comment - D. Raffensperger - Black OliveFrom:Dennis Raffensperger To:Agenda Subject:Zoning regulations update meeting Date:Monday, December 05, 2016 8:38:55 AM Commissioners, I would like to attend this evening’s meeting to hear the presentation by the planning department but cannot. I have two suggestions that I would like the commissioners to hear: 1. The provision allowing unlimited exchange of “car share” parking spaces for standard parking spaces at a 1:5 ratio, as at the Black-Olive project must be addressed. It is patently ridiculous that there is no cap on the percentage of standard parking spaces that can be offset by “car share” parking spaces. For the developers of Black-Olive to simply overlook the community’s concern about number of parking spaces by both increasing the number of apartments and at the same time decreasing the number of physical parking spaces demonstrates a level of hubris that seems to me to be an affront to the community at best. 2. As reported in the Chronicle, the Design Intent Statement submitted by the architects for the Black-Olive project is the worst form of “archi-speak”, and as a graduate of an ivy league graduate school in architecture believe me, I’ve heard a lot of it. The statement about the use of solids and voids on the building evoking the geology of natural forms is meaningless toward any attempt to allow the community to have any real understanding of the decision making process behind the formal development of the building and its attempt, or lack thereof, to relate to its surroundings. The Commission should require that this statement be resubmitted in a manner that can be understood by a lay person and that bears some relationship to a real world explanation of the design of the building. If the City is going to require a statement of design intent then architects must be required to formulate these statements in a way that clearly addresses the design as it relates to the way the building responds to City code requirements and interacts with its context. Thank you very much, Dennis Raffensperger Dennis Raffensperger, AIA, GGPdRA Architects 720 S. Tracy Ave., Bozeman, MT www.dRA-Architect.com (o) 406.624.6782 (c) 406.581.8759