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Home My WebLink About03-09-17 INC MinutesTHE INTER-NEIGHBORHOOD COUNCIL (INC) MEETING OF BOZEMAN, MONTANA MEETING MINUTES Thursday, March 9, 2017 Attending: Jennifer Rockne (South Central) Kathy Powell (UNA), Joe Genovese (NHVN), Jack Tyler (Flanders Creek), 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) QUORUM Present Jessica Johnson (City’s neighborhood coordinator) Michael Bachich (Bozeman Police Department) David Fine (Bozeman Economic Development) 4:30 Jennifer convened the meeting Large conference room at the Library Changes to agenda: Carson Taylor will not be here today Public comment: None 4:40 Reviewed Feb minutes. Eli Anselmi (LGNA) was present during Feb meeting Gail moved to approve minutes, Lisa seconded, Minutes approved. Special Presentation: David Fine, Economic Development Department. - department is 4 years old, also manages tax increment finance districts - City passed an economic development strategy. Focus on 3 areas: o Business growth – supporting retention and growth of current business, and encouraging new businesses. o Infrastructure - Currently a shortage of office spaces for middle-large sized companies. o Education - providing businesses with qualified work force. - Economic Development = Growth o job growth, for resilient economy need diverse job base - Midtown o Tax - need taxable income o working to incentivize investment, new B2M zoning o Bozeman needs retail in midtown, but also needs housing, which drives retail o updating streetscape – more pedestrian friendly. o Many property owners have donated land to do some of the projects. Questions - Lisa went to Envision Tomorrow workshop, N. 7th was on everyone’s map for high-density housing. Vacant areas available for housing? o They’re R-5, but property owners are not interested - How is Bozeman Fiber project going? o going well, focus is intensely on downtown area, still early stage. - Talk within city of a grocery store on 7th? o Not focused on attracting any particular business - Jennifer – what about local independents in the Economic Develop- ment Report? Any plans to support local independent businesses o Focus is on sector development, which includes local independents - Kathy – economic development in neighborhoods. If Bozeman contin- ues to grow we need 13,000 more places to live. How is Economic Development accounting for that? o It is not Economic Developments focus. There are other groups that address that – Community Development and Affordable Hous- ing Advisory Board. Economic development collaborates some- times. - Lisa – sign ordinance, Catspaw won’t change their sign, and doesn’t have to unless they change their building? o Correct 5:00 Police Update - No crime trends going on right now - The last 4 stolen vehicles recovered were recovered through aban- doned vehicles. So if you’ve seen a vehicle in the same place for a while, give them a call. o How long will it take to get an abandoned vehicle towed? It can take a while. Have to send notice to registered owner by certified mail after several citations. If it’s causing a traffic hazard it will be moved sooner. - warm weather – graffiti will start increasing, report it. Paint is donated to cover it, but no volunteer to paint it. If anyone is interested send them their way. Painting deters more graffiti. o Blackmore building and Black-Olive location – SK tag. Police are trying to figure out who SK is. - Citizen police academy is coming up on Wednesday nights. 5:10 FYI from Jessica: - Clean up day April 22. Bag up trash, leave on city street, waste de- partment will pick it up. Can register now. Fun to make it a neighbor- hood event. Free e-waste, but you have to bring it to Logan landfill. Bozeman.net/cleanupday - RUDAT – Regional Urban Design Assistance Team. Volunteers to identify ways to encourage desirable change. o Next Tuesday from 6:30 to 7:30 at Beall Center. o Friday April 7, the whole community is invited to meet at Treeline for a neighborhood walkabout.  group will work on Saturday, Sunday and Monday and then present at Ellen Monday April 10 at 5:30. o BozemanRUDAT.com - Bozeman Sunrise Rotary Club o Fix up Festival – September 23, applications need to be in April 1 o Low income, own and live in their home are eligible for updates to their home. - Tonight at 7 there will be a meeting about the development on Bab- cock and Wallace - Fix-it Clinic – fairgrounds, May 6 at building 4 from 10am to 2pm. o If you have a skill contact Rob gallatinsolidwaste.org - Short term rental update: o City staff has put together an ordinance. It’s an internal document. o Timelines (tentative)  End of April – going to commission for policy discussion  Beginning of May – going to zoning commission  Mid May – first reading of ordinance  End of June – effective date o Staff Report  doesn’t define the rental of room in a home as a short term rental  differentiates between properties that are and are not prima- ry residences o Open to public comment until date of commission meeting  Jessica suggests waiting until staff recommendations are out and pay attention to the questions staff has posed to commission. That is where they will need input the most - Question about ADUs from Kathy – no date yet. won’t be until after the end of April. Action Items: None 5:30 Discussion: Led by Jack How to find out about a new development going up in your neighborhood: - Curiosity about development near you. How do you start to find out information about new developments? Nextdoor and Gov Website - 41% of people are on Nextdoor. 59% are not (not getting city updates from Jessica) - Jessica’s updates provide codes for developments – first two numbers are the year of the project, next three are project number - Click 2 Gov website – lists developments that have site plans. - What happens when you try to look at documents? o No documents for any of the projects. No access to information. o What would you do next?  Call the planner, but Community Development office is super busy - The system starts to break down. effects the sense of community. No mechanism to deal with getting info out. Other ways to find out about development - signs in corners of project sites. o But the postings might be placed in low trafficked areas, where the community is not likely to see the notice. - developer has to notice people within 200’ radius of the project (state requirement). Is there a better way to get the info out? - will talk about finding solutions at a future INC meeting - Things to think about o Part of the problem is when to make the narrative available because it is likely to change many times. o City doesn’t want any degree of arbitrariness between what is done with one pro- ject vs. another project. Solution Brainstorm: - Increase notice area to 600’ - has to apply to everyone. Developer pays for it. $ + la- bor. - 200’ notification but more robust website. $ and time. - what does INC want?  narrative  prospective photos  zoning info  Scheduled dates for design review  contact info – planner name, etc.  language of notice letter – make it easy to understand, “laymens terms” o Neighborhood association rep can inform the neighborhood of projects • but a lot of development is occurring where there is no neighbor- hood association. - Comments: o When notice goes out to an established neighborhood association it can include contact info of one of the neighborhood reps so they can provide important info? o Making public notice more widely available via technology. o What about notifying the resident instead of the owner? Could require both physi- cal and mail notice - A list of questions will be sent out to INC so we can continue to brainstorm solutions. 6:22 Meeting adjourned