HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-09-19 Public Comment - D. Smith - Lack of Parking in Bozeman To The Bozeman City Commission:
I and probably most of Bozeman read the article in the Bozeman Daily Chronicle with great interest on
parking issues that we are currently suffering big time. The proposed hotel should not be allowed
unless they provide proper and ample parking for their customers. The city garage should not be used
by developers. As a taxpayer who paid for the parking garage we should have a say in how it is used.
I don't recall getting a rebate on my taxes for the money the city is receiving on the leases it is giving
out.
I have lived in Bozeman fifty six years and it used to be that when a new business was going in you
first had to provide parking and if you couldn't your building didn't go up. I have managed a property
three blocks from main street and I can assure you that when the building was put up we were required
to provide adequate parking spaces. I am currently having major problems with my parking lots in that
the town seems to think that they can come and park and walk up to main to go shopping and to lunch.
I have over fifty tenants and about two hundred fifty people in the building. If that hotel is allowed to
go in without sufficient parking I will have to hire personnel to monitor my parking lots so that the
patients and employees can park in the lots we have provided for them.
It's time the city holds the developers accountable. For every property that is put up the developers
can't promise that the tenants will be allowed to park in the parking garage. Quite frankly, if I were to
have to pay the high prices of the downtown hotel, then have to park in a parking garage and haul my
luggage across the street, past the homeless who hang out by the bus station I would not be impressed.