HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-01-2020 Public Comment - E. Hosking - Parking Benefit DistrictsFrom: agenda@bozeman.net
To: Agenda
Subject: Thank you for your public comment.
Date: Sunday, March 1, 2020 10:31:27 AM
A new entry to a form/survey has been submitted.
Form Name: Public Comment Form
Date & Time: 03/01/2020 10:31 AM
Response #: 355
Submitter ID: 25243
IP address: 2600:6c67:517f:a010:31eb:193b:508:bedc
Time to complete: 24 min. , 5 sec.
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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 Eileen
Last Name Hosking
Email Address eileenhosking406@gmail.com
Phone Number 4065811135
Comments
Re: Downtown Parking Management District and Parking Benefit Zones
In as much as there seems to be some question regarding the public's ability to comment at the March 2
meeting, I will offer my comments here. The Commission itself has created the parking problem in
downtown Bozeman and downtown neighborhoods by acceding to the demands of developers for relief
from providing adequate parking for the residents, guests, and patrons of buildings proposed and now (too
many) built. You even felt it appropriate to squander the limited number of spots in our downtown garage
by leasing them to such developments. If you felt a revenue source from that garage necessary, why did
you not lease spaces to downtown businesses for their employees and customers? And now you are
proposing that residents of long-established downtown neighborhoods bear the burden of such senseless,
and questionably motivated, decisions. One of Bozeman's most attractive attributes, and one that many
cities wish they could replicate, has been its vibrant middle and working class downtown neighborhoods,
where families (not apartment dwellers) live, work, go to school, grow gardens and work. This proposal, like
so many you've made in the past several years, will further burden this overtaxed and under supported
heart of the city. The developers should pay for the mess they've made, not the people who you should be
serving.
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