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Home My WebLink About07-03-20 Public Comment - Westfield Park Homeowners Association- Bozeman CohousingFrom:WPHA Secretary To:Agenda; Chris Mehl; Cyndy Andrus; Terry Cunningham; I-Ho Pomeroy; Michael Wallner Cc:Tyler Doshier; Matthew Buenrostro; Janne Hayward; Brianne Rogers; Bill Shomento; Morris, Duane; Hatfield, Patrick Subject:Fwd: WPHA: Follow-up from our meeting Date:Friday, July 3, 2020 10:14:05 AM Attachments:2020 0703 WPHA letter to Bozeman CoHousing .pdf Dear Bozeman City Commission, Thank you for your public service and leadership in our community during this challenging times. Please find attached a letter from our neighborhood community expressing concerns aboutBozeman Cohousing's preliminary site plan. We implore you to consider a re-review their proposal prior to the final plans coming to the City Planning Board and onto you for final approval. The upzoned density you have allowedin this annexation changes the very fabric of our community. We will be seeking a meeting with the City Planning Department to understand more specifics about how this planned development will impact our investments in this community. With appreciation,The Westfield Park Homeowners Association ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: WPHA Secretary <wpha.secretary@gmail.com>Date: Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 9:58 AM Subject: WPHA: Follow-up from our meetingTo: <life@bozemancohousing.com> Cc: Tyler Doshier <tylerdoshier@gmail.com>, Matthew Buenrostro <matthewb@gbcmt.org>,Janne Hayward <jannehayward@gmail.com>, Hatfield, Patrick <hatfield@montana.edu>, Morris, Duane <dmorris@montana.edu>, Bill Shomento <bill.shomento@gmail.com>,Brianne Rogers <briannerogers@gmail.com> Hello neighbors,Thank you again for taking the time to share in a dialogue last week regarding your preliminary site plan. Our community has put together a letter reviewing our top concerns with the site plan draft asreceived on June 17. We would deeply appreciate you taking our concerns into consideration as you continue to work to finalize your proposal. We would welcome the opportunity tocontinue a dialogue as your site plan evolves and adapts based on City and community input. With appreciation, The Westfield Park Homeowners Association Westfield Park Homeowners Association Fieldstone Dr, Concord Dr, and Lexington Dr Bozeman, MT 59715 wpha.secretary@gmail.com July 3, 2020 Bozeman Cohousing 3120 Wagon Wheel Rd Bozeman, MT 59715 life@bozemancohousing.com CC: Bozeman City Commission, Bozeman Planning Department Dear New Neighbors, Thank you for the opportunity to meet with you last week to listen, learn, and share in a conversation about your planned development on Doc Robertson’s former property. We applaud your overall vision emphasizing sustainability and focused on individual homes that are well-maintained and aesthetically pleasing. We warmly welcome you to our neighborhood. As discussed during our meeting, we have two main concerns about your preliminary site plan: 1) lack of adequate parking 2) changes to the viewshed across Wagon Wheel Rd As noted on your preliminary site plan, your 40-unit development is currently required by the City to hold 93 parking stalls. Your current plan contains only 67; 22 of which are enclosed garages. We expect that these 93 stalls are a compromise given City code requirements based on adjustments given your intentions for car sharing, bike parking, and additional offsets. Due to our neighborhood’s close proximity, our quiet streets will become the most direct overflow parking available for residents and visitors to your property. While we appreciate your community’s current aspirations to live a low- or no- car lifestyle, please consider our concerns about the reality of Montana’s long winters and great distances with limited public transportation, which result in our state bucking national trends towards reduced vehicle ownership. Given that there is no way to enforce restrictions on Cohousing member vehicle ownership or structure ‘permit parking only’ in our own neighborhood, and as your cohousing leadership and community makeup will inevitably change over the decades, we have legitimate concerns that your aspirations, as noble as they may be, will not play out in reality. We would like to see you increase parking availability on your own property to at least the required 93 stalls minimum. We encourage our public servants at the City Commission and Planning Department to really dig into this site plan and recognize that there is a difference between aspiration and reality. We are concerned that the reality of turning a property that currently houses one single family home into a 40-home property will, literally, spill over and into our neighborhood streets. Secondly, we appreciated in our discussion about the viewshed that you acknowledged that our neighborhood will be transitioning from an open, pastoral viewshed to a high-density parking/garage- scape. As we all know, people have stuff. That stuff tends to slowly build up and spill out, especially when adequate storage isn’t available in compact living spaces. Not only are we concerned that your planned 22 parking spaces in enclosed garages will be taken over by all manner of property that cannot be stored in your individual homes, but that it will also begin to be stored around and behind your garages. Again, we are taking the long view – we want to maintain the character of our neighborhood, which we have worked hard to create and maintain over the past 30 years, for the next 30 years and beyond. We support and enthusiastically encourage your ideas of planting trees in your planned open space between your garages and Wagon Wheel Road to sustain a more appealing viewshed. In addition, boulevard trees have proven a worthwhile investment for our HOA on the west side of Wagon Wheel and we would like to see a tree line mirrored on the public right-of-way on the east side as well. Finally, we wanted to underscore the point shared by one of our longtime Homeowners Association leaders last Monday. We, as a community, have learned that even with the best intentions and professionally drafted bylaws and covenants: enforceability is ineffective – even when supported through costly litigation. We recognize and support the detailed work that Bozeman Cohousing is doing to carefully plan this development from the start and your efforts to ‘do it right’ the first time. It is clear you have all the best intentions. We deeply respect and appreciate the hard work you are doing to develop covenants and bylaws that reflect the vision of your community. As a fellow community that has worked tirelessly in the original drafting and subsequent additional redrafting and defense of our community documents, we caution you to prepare for the reality that very few enforcement mechanisms exist to uphold your vision in daily practice. This high-density development changes the very fabric of our community. We recognize Bozeman is changing; we simply ask that we all collaborate as neighbors to ensure we can all enjoy the communities we have each worked so hard to build and not bring hardships upon each other with planning that is based more on aspiration than reality. With sincere appreciation for your time and attention to these concerns. Your neighbors, The Westfield Park Homeowners Association Duane & Angie Morris 304 Fieldstone Kendall& Doug Child 305 Fieldstone Carol Gibson 311 Fieldstone Sarah & Jordy Hendrikx 312 Fieldstone Jason & Christine Pearcy 318 Fieldstone Patty Carr 407 Fieldstone Patricia Yorwerth 410 Fieldstone Bobbie Bateson 413 Fieldstone Pat & Nancy Hatfield 418 Fieldstone Allen & Dana May 419 Fieldstone Joel Riendeau 424 Fieldstone Kal Schweitzer 504 Fieldstone Francesca Schaerrer 505 Fieldstone Becky Saleeby 511 Fieldstone Walt Connell 512 Fieldstone Steve & Marion Cherry 518 Fieldstone Kevin & Cassie Belzer 519 Fieldstone Dave Ward 605 Fieldstone Elisa Barber & Mark Filonczuk 609 Fieldstone Matthew & Janet Buenrostro 610 Fieldstone Eleanor Christian 3155 Fieldstone W Anthony Tangaro 3191 Fieldstone W Shawn Bates 3203 Fieldstone W Carl & Kim Strozewski 3215 Fieldstone West Jamie Rizzuto 3251 Fieldstone West Janne Hayward 325 Concord Joe & Terri Johnson 330 Concord Brianne Rogers 355 Concord Larry & Debi Barnwell 360 Concord Brett Davis 450 Concord Bill & Stacy Shomento 455 Concord Shad & Cammie Sterzick 500 Concord Brett Boeckel 575 Concord Joe & Andi DiMarco 601 Concord Kim Trafton 635 Concord Julia Beck 314 Lexington Kevin Cook 315 Lexington Ben Dodge 322 Lexington Mike & Debbie Costle 331 Lexington Michael & Melissa Morgner 401 Lexington Tom McMahon 417 Lexington Catherine & John Johnson 434 Lexington Dave & Gina Weaver 502 Lexington Davie & Ann Dickensheets 514 Lexington Roderick Peace 531 Lexington Ross Gjerde 606 Lexington Tyler & Sara Ann Doshier 615 Lexington