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Home My WebLink About04-13-17 INC Minutes THE INTER-NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL (INC) MEETING OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA MEETING MINUTES Thursday, April 13, 2017 Attending: Jennifer Rockne (South Central) Kathy Powell (UNA), Joe Genovese (NHVN), Dave Chambers (NENA), Lisa Prugh (Cooper Park), Ginny Cowan (BCNA), Gail MacMillan (BPNA), Evette Allison (MarLin), Maddy Weisz (VUNA), Leeann Fellows (Flanders Creek) Dave Gibson (SENA), Amanda Griffith (BPN), Eli Anselmi (LGNA), Suzanne Held (?) QUORUM Present Jessica Johnson (City’s neighborhood coordinator) Jennifer Johnson (Bozeman Police Department) David Fine (Bozeman Economic Development) 4:30 Jennifer convened the meeting Large conference room at the Library Changes to agenda: Jennifer Johnson will present for BPD first Public comment: None 4:40 Reviewed March minutes. Jack Tyler was not here, Leeann Fellows was in his place (she is already listed as attending in March meeting minutes) Joe moved to approve minutes, Evette seconded, Minutes approved. Special Presentation: Jen Johnson, Bozeman PD – Police Update - Community Resource Officer – she will be filling this position temporarily o Shift in captains within the police department - 463 calls for service (down from last year) o 155 arrests o 234 reports - Community Projects o Highgate Living – having positive presence in community Questions o What is included in criminal trespass  someone on the property that they don’t want to be there (not entering someone’s house). o Trends  car thefts, mostly crimes of opportunity o Removing Community Resource Officer Position?  No, plan to fill it eventually. 4:45 Water Conservation Program - Jessica - Integrated Water Resources Planning – 3 main pillars o water conservation planning o water supply planning o drought management Growth - 3% expected growth/year for population – by 2036 – demand will exceed supply - significant shortage susceptibility to Drought - 3 main sources – 80% from Hyalite and Bozeman Creeks – dependent on snowpack , other 20% is from Lyman creek – drainage north of M. behaves like surface water bc it responds to season. - new supply alternatives o 60 percent water conversation, 40 percent other o Why conservation  more affordable, faster, etc. - Outdoor Water Use o big spike in the summer months. ½ goes towards lawn and landscapes.  Question – would drip watering reduce this? Yes.  Question – MSU and Hosiptal sprinkle during the hottest times of the day. They are not on city water. o To encourage reduction  rebates on water sense controllers, rain sensors, MSMT nozzles, drip irrigation (up to $350),  drought tolerant plants ($150)  can reduce water use by 50-60%  free irrigation assessments (city water use)  inspect for inefficiencies  performance testing  help establish water schedule  Question – can you test for leaks? She tries, but it can be difficult. - Pledge to save in the Mayor’s Challenge for Water Conservation. o www.mywaterpledge.com - will educate you on how to save water and how much.  anyone who pledges is eligible for prizes - Question about Rain Barrels? o Gray area with rain barrels – not legal, but not illegal. o potentially goes against prior appropriation law Patrick Cross from Tree Advisory Board: - Board is made up of people from a variety of backgrounds: real estate, commercial lending, environmental/civic engineering, design and landscape architecture - Job is to assist city and engage community - Gallatin Forest – managed by US Forest Service - Urban Forest – managed by City of Bozeman Forestry Department.  Urban Forestry Action Plan o emerald Ashbore (similar to mountain pine beetle, but affects urban forests, rather than wild forests) o Emerald Ashbore is not here yet – travels primarily through firewood – making Bozeman particularly susceptible  We have a lot of green ash trees in our urban forest o Action Plan  costs more to cut all down rather than just target the sick ones.  recommendation – proactive approach that monitors for the bug and will cut down the 10% that are most susceptible and treat trees that are likely to be infected. o What can you do  water adequately  increase species diversity o Contact – Alex Nordquest the City Urban Forester  anordquest@bozeman.net  www.bozeman.net/Forestry o Questions  Long period of cold – get rid of pine beetle?  cold has to be in the fall, not the winter  Looks like mountain pine beetle are still spreading  Where are we in identifying the 10% of trees that are most at risk?  Already in the process of getting rid of the 10%  Next step is to determine what the pesticide method will be.  Would topping trees work? No. Other problems with topping.  FYI – if they cut down one of your trees you will get a voucher for a new one. Mayor Taylor: * New City Manager – Nothing to add to what has already been said in the public * Strategic Plan - behind because of city manager issue *Black Olive Project – turned down. How important is density from neighborhood standpoint and environment standpoint. That issue is going to keep coming up. - other issue raised – what are we going to do about parking? o One school of thought – making parking difficult will discourage car use o Another point of view – you’ll never stop Montanans from driving - Not really predictable from the Black Olive meetings - Taylor voted against it because of the parking and because the design of the building was not compatible with the neighborhood. But believes that the right six-story building would not have the same failings as this project has had. - Need to incentivize people away from vehicles. 30 years down the road the parking plan may have worked, but cant make that jump in one project. - Other projects will come up that will increase density. There is a call for more density in downtown and midtown. Long run – nodes that make neighborhoods more walkable. - Question – why not use more underground parking? - expense - Will Black and Olive project developers come back? Don’t know. 5:35 Community Development Director, Marty Matsen: Community Development Projects - notification - How to better notify everyone of new projects - Lots coming in that were approved before recession and then put on pause until now - need to meet federal, local, state legal requirements. - Can’t provide more notice in some neighborhoods and not others because can’t pick and choose where to provide more notice and where not to – slippery slope. - New development signs have already been instituted – much bigger, easier to see. - By law has to be on property being developed – might not be seen from right of ways. - QR code on signs will give you the contact info for city developer. - Going to try to use social media more to get information out. - Community Developer Viewer – working on improving the information – one place for everyone to go to. All info available with hyperlinks. Will also have a meeting schedule. - currently have all the info, but need to get staff in place and put it altogether. - Black Olive illustrated the importance of providing info so people can show up to the right meetings relevant to their interests. -Goal - want to put all the city stuff together – street projects, sewer projects, etc. Search your address and it shows everything that’s happening within 500 ft. From Jessica: - this conversation resulted from our previous conversations in this group - put together INC focus group to test it before it goes live - INC hopefully will endorse the page. Comment from Lisa Prugh – The staff in the Community Development office are very friendly and very helpful. Uniform Development Code (UDC) revamp right now – one thing that has come up is that there’s portions of the code that people don’t like. Now is the time to comment on that and bring it up. Show up at the public hearing and give feedback. Question – what’s the difference between 200’ notice and 600’ notice? 200’ requirement is set by the state. Can do something extra – the postage is the expense. So that depends on how many people are going to require notice. - right now legal requirement is to send the notice to the property owner (might be out of state – residence will get no notice). Applicant pays for notice? theoretically yes. Jennifer: Noise Ordinance will be deferred, update from Jessica, then adjourned. 6:00 FYI from Jessica: Neighborhood Meeting – BG Mill Project April 24 – going in front of commission to make recommendations about STRs - Memo with recommendations will be available April 20 will be emailed out Saturday April 22 – Clean up day. See Bozeman.net. RUDAT was a lot of fun – report at BozemanRudat.com SCAN and Cooper Park need to schedule neighborhood meetings. Announcement – Bozeman Preservation Advocacy Group – May 5 B-3 Halo Transition surrounding downtown.