HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-07-21 Public Comment - U. Neese - Buffalo Run DevelopmentFrom: River Inn
To: Agenda
Subject: Buffalo run annexation 20112
Date: Thursday, January 7, 2021 5:31:39 PM
Attention city of bozeman Department of community Development Attn. Chris Saunders:
Thank you for letting me respond
to the Buffalo Run annexation
request ( application no.20112)
First, a little history. The land
now under consideration
for annexation is owned by a
development company from
Colorado, Yellowstone
Investment Group.
They have come to our
community with in the last
year with the intention
of making a lot of money. Their
proposal for this rural, agricultural
land would create a peninsula of
high density asphalt and
condos, surrounded by
agricultural land on both sides
that is currently zoned by the
county to only allow one septic
system per 20 acres, not for the
proposed 288 condo units. The
cities own plans for R5 zoning
say that this zoning has to be
with in a close proximity of
amenities so that walking and
biking are possible there are no
amenities close to this
development. Chapter 38 article
3in the
municipal codeF.
Residential mixed-use high density district (R-5). The intent of the
R-5 residential mixed-use high density district is to provide for high-
density residential development through a variety of compatible
housing types and residentially supportive commercial uses in a
geographically compact, walkable area to serve the varying needs of
the community's residents. These purposes are accomplished by:
1.
2.
Providing for a mixture of housing types, including single and
multi-household dwellings to serve the varying needs of the
community's residents.
Allowing offices and small scale retail and restaurants as
secondary uses provided special standards are met.
Use of this zone is appropriate for areas adjacent to mixed-use
districts and/or served by transit to accommodate a higher
density of residents in close proximity to jobs and services.
This zoning is not compatible with
meadow creek or the rural
landscape.
The ingress and egress of this
property has only two
options — namely, Kurk Drive through Meadow Creek
subdivision for most of
development and
Fowler Lane. Kurk Drive is
a narrow lane with residential
homes not designed
to accommodate thousands
of cars coming and
going. Fowler Lane is an unimproved
county gravel road bordered
closely on both sides by irrigation
ditches. It is also not designed to
cope with 1000 or more vehicles
using it every day. Even under
current traffic use, we
landowners along Fowler
Lane control the dust ourselves
at a yearly cost of more
than $500.
Meadow Creek subdivision
was designed in the early 2000s
for family residential homes. If
this new annexation and project
are approved, those
homeowners will have
their quality of life drastically
changed, along
with the degradation of
their health and safety. In
addition to the environmental
impacts on water and air quality,
public health and safety is a
major argument for why this sort
of spot/leap-frog development
should not be allowed. In
Bozeman, the impacts of growth
and development, and the loss of
natural landscape, are already
alarming. The last thing we need
is more of the same. The
sacrifices required by this type of
intrusive development on
valuable agricultural land, all in
the pursuit of financial
gain, should not be Bozeman's
future.
Ursula Neese
5532 Fowler Lane
Bozeman,MT 59718