HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-19-17 Public Comment - T. Connors - Living WageFrom: Chris Mehl
To: Agenda
Subject: FW: living wage in bozeman
Date: Thursday, January 19, 2017 1:57:07 PM
Chris Mehl
Bozeman City Commission
cmehl@bozeman.net
406.581.4992
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From: Will Price [will@nextfrontiercapital.com]
Sent: Thursday, January 19, 2017 1:24 PM
To: Chris Mehl
Subject: Fwd: living wage in bozeman
Good to see you last night. Smart thoughts from friends who suffered from poor planning.
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From: "Tim Connors" <tconnors@gmail.com<mailto:tconnors@gmail.com>>
Date: Jan 19, 2017 1:14 PM
Subject: living wage in bozeman
To: "Will Price" <will@nextfrontiercapital.com<mailto:will@nextfrontiercapital.com>>
Cc:
interesting stuff
http://www.bozemandailychronicle.com/what-a-living-wage-is-in-bozeman-and-who-makes/article_08c66d8f-f0f4-
5541-87a7-d09ff287c13f.html
if you have influence with the mayor, if we've learned anything from
the bay area, let's not have bozeman repeat it:
- allow micro apartments near downtown. like wework's WeLive model:
very small microapartments with shared common space on each floor.
enables low cost rents for young workers, or seniors, and enables
low-income tenants to be mixed in nicely
.
- incent the big employers to be downtown in buildings vs suburban
sprawl with retail on the bottom, then open floor plan offices, then
microapartments above. if corps own them, the rents stay low for their
employees as incentives are aligned.
- incent real estate developers to build new housing units downtown,
discourage/tax speculation on buying existing units which just drive
up rents. make it a no brainer to build new units vs buy existing ones
to get the best investment return.
- work hard to match # of jobs in downtown with # of housing units.
monitor it carefully, don't let one get too far behind. if it does,
you get sprawl, long commutes, and salary spikes.
- if you have to enable folks to live outside of downtown, build a
below ground subway for mass transit with a handful of stops along the
way, so you get density in multiple locations vs suburban spread and
45 minute commutes...which puts the bulk of the difficulty on the
working poor, who have the least time to commute but are the first to
have to live far from work....