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HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-17-18 Public Comment - L. Barnard - ONE 11 Lofts ProjectFrom: agenda@bozeman.net To: Agenda Subject: Thank you for your public comment. Date: Saturday, March 17, 2018 8:22:52 AM A new entry to a form/survey has been submitted. Form Name: Public Comment Form Date & Time: 03/17/2018 8:22 AM Response #: 86 Submitter ID: 5643 IP address: 172.24.96.111 Time to complete: 3 min. , 7 sec. Survey Details Page 1 Public comment may be submitted via the form below, or by any of the following options. Public comment may also be given at any public meeting. Email: agenda@bozeman.net Mail to: Attn: City Commission PO Box 1230 Bozeman, MT 59771 In-person delivery to: Attn: City Commission City Clerk's Office City Hall, Suite 202 121 N. Rouse Ave. Bozeman, MT First Name Larry Last Name Barnard Email Address barnebozeman@gmail.com Phone Number 4065804089 Comments With regards to the ONE 11 Lofts proposed project at the intersection of North Willson and West Lamme I first am happy to do my duty as a citizen and offer input on the project as proposed. However, I believe the protocol for informing the public and the neighborhood is quite deficient by design, possibly intent. One could consider it evasive. Requiring notice to only the residents within 200 feet of the proposed project, especially for a project of this magnitude, is not a very sincere attempt to inform all of those in a neighborhood so they can individually and collectively assess the impacts on their neighborhood. Placing a sign with information 8 feet out in a snow bank where it is impossible to read is not informing the public. Because that is the requirement does not alone make it adequate or fair to all the people who will suffer the impacts. Exceptions to the rules need not always be in favor of the developer. Those impacts include, as always, the parking problems that come along with a design that ignores the reality of our lifestyle when it comes to vehicle ownership. Again, because the adopted codes allow the design to ignore parking impacts to a neighborhood doesn’t change the reality of those impacts. That property is now occupied as a parking lot for existing residences across the street. Where will those dozens of cars park? During big snow years like this congestion will occur beyond thresholds of safety. Those overflow cars will park up and down the streets for several blocks. The entire area is parked up to the maximum on any given day of the week already. Allowing street parking as part of the formula does not change that existing reality. Proximity to public transportation is a ruse that has no relevance to our town. Where will those buses take you? To Bridger Bowl? Big Sky? Hyalite? The Madison? What thought has been given to the properties one block West of ONE 11 which have been sitting for the last several years, abandoned and boarded over, waiting for a development proposal of the same scale and impact on the same streets and impacting the same traffic flow. Then what about the next “derelict” property in the area to be seized by developers and transformed into a vision of density development? If a developer can’t afford to develop a property because of parking and other limitations then they should not be allowed to shift that cost, aggravation and impact to the public at large. If in the future people are not using cars then more development can be allowed on the parking lots. ONE 11 LOFTS is “Black-Olive” revisited. The same issues are at hand: lack of communication, unrealistic parking requirements, over all inappropriate design and indifference to the impacts on residents beyond that city block. I have no illusions or intention to stop this or any other proposed project in Bozeman. Rather, I want my neighborhood to be allowed to participate in this process and point out aspects of the proposal that are not right or fair. And hopefully influence the design of the proposal. As these above mentioned impacts accumulate, will there be a more aggressive enforcement policy by the City of Bozeman regarding parking? This process is about planning, hopefully for everyone’s future, and should not be about accommodating the developer’s needs (and profits) in the next two years. Please, take these issues seriously because they will not go away regardless how much one wants to believe in the formula. Please, consider having me on any mailing lists regarding this project so I can stay informed and inform my neighbors. Best regards, Larry Barnard, 439 North Grand, Bozeman barnebozeman@gmail.com Thank you, City Of Bozeman This is an automated message generated by the Vision Content Management System™. Please do not reply directly to this email.