HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-06-20 Public Comment - S. Gerchow - Application 19410From:Sandra Gerchow
To:Agenda
Subject:Application 19410 - Public Comment
Date:Monday, April 6, 2020 10:54:24 AM
Dear City Commission,
After reading the article in the Bozeman Chronicle this weekend, I felt compelled to write in a
letter of public comment on the subject of the Armory Hotel Project, application 19410. Iwould kindly request that the city dismiss the appeal filed by the condominium board located
at 5 West (Mendenhall).
The city already approved the project several years ago and the building was built asapproved. The developer adhered to the approval by the city, which included the placement of
the mechanical equipment and lighting. To go back now seems extremely unjust to thedeveloper, and unnecessarily costly.
Do any of you remember the boarded up Armory building? What an eye sore it was
languishing, abandoned, and in disrepair, home to drug users and the homeless. Because whowouldn't want to live across from that, I'm sure the condominium owners would have
preferred looking at that, than a well designed hotel.
This developer took a chance and turned a blot on the landscape of Bozeman into somethingpromising and in doing so helped in the beautification of Bozeman in the process. Let's not
delay this project anymore with needless petty complaints and appeals.
Thank you,Sandra Gerchow