HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-19-17 Public Comment - B. Gallik - UDC Subchapter 4BFirst Name brian
Last Name gallik
Email Address briangallk@yahoo.com
Phone Number 4064-404-1728
Comments
I am very disappointed (but not surprised) by your decision to "re-approve" changes to the B-3 zoning in the
conservation overlay district. Those changes were made without proper notice to adjoining landowners and our
opportunity to comment on the same. Judge Brown's decision, particularly his statute of limitations ruling is, I
submit, in error and sets very bad precedent. Until it is appealed and overturned, however, I must respect that
decision.
You will quickly see the adverse impacts of your decision on our neighborhoods. The results will not be pretty. I
predict, as I advised you last month at a commission meeting, a domino effect. The word "conservation" in the context of our neighborhoods has become meaningless. No longer is the neighborhood the valued commodity.
Instead it is the land. Existing housing stock will, as on North Grand, will be demolished to make room for high rise
condos or town homes the architecture of which is out of character with the neighborhood and existing problems
with parking will become only worse.
Adding insult to injury is that the planning director makes the decisions on projects within the "neighborhood
conservation" district, unless that decision is reclaimed by the commission. When I was on the planning board, I
supported that idea. I didn't see this train wreck coming.
On top of the foregoing, the cost of adversely impacted landowners to appeal adverse decisions by the planning
director, when the commission refuses to reclaim the decision (which is political safe), is unreasonably high and, I
submit, unconstitutionally denies people access to the courts, to the extent it is based upon the ability to afford
the appeal.
Fortunately the ballot box remains a remedy.
Best Regards
Brian Gallik
316 North Third Avenue
Bozeman, MT 59715
(406) 404-1728