HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-05-21 Public Comment - J. Cook - Buffalo Run 2From: Joan Cook
To: Agenda
Subject: Zoning change No 20112
Date: Friday, February 5, 2021 11:55:43 AM
To: City of Bozeman Commission Members
Concerning: Application 20112 Buffalo Run Zone change
Dear Commission Members,
We have lived on Fowler Lane for more than 40 years. We have raised our two sons here
and they have raised their sons here. They are 5th and 6th generation Montanans. We
live ½ mile from the proposed R5 development proposed on land that has been zoned
one home per twenty acres for many, many years. Fowler Lane is an agricultural area.
These first two miles are a gravel road. I have watched the city moving closer every year
and know that it will come. However, I felt protected by the zoning regulations…one
home per 20 acres. Taking one home per 20 acres to an R5 development is atrocious!
Fowler Lane is not the place for high-density zoning. At what point are you going to
protect the landowners whom have worked hard for years in a zoned area that values
open land, livestock, crop production, and wildlife? In addition, this proposed R5
development is less than ¼ mile from land where elk routinely migrate for winter-feed.
We feel especially bad for the neighbors bordering this zone change request. For years
they have worked hard on their beautiful property and home, knowing that they were
protected from high-density housing. They paid the high price for their land as one home
per 20 acres. Please help them by not allowing high density right next to their rural
homes and animals, no matter what!! R5 development does not fit with anything on
Fowler Lane. It isn’t right or honest to allow for R5 zoning in an area zoned 1-home per
20 acres. Zoning is supposed to protect people. We buy property and build our homes
where the zoning fits the lifestyle, goals, business and our dreams. This is very different
from the subdivision off of 19th east of us. There were only 2 homes in that area and all
farmland when the zoning was changed for that subdivision. On Fowler Lane we have
many homes and people affected by this. We, in agriculture, are being pushed out.
Fowler Lane is used to move cattle, horses, llamas, it is used by our tractors and baling
equipment, combines, bale wagons, etc. People use the lane to walk their dogs, ride bikes
with their children, and ride horses because it is a gravel road with less traffic than
Cottonwood to the west and 19th to the east. Both of those roads are dangerous on
which to try to move equipment, ride horses or ride bikes with your kids. Zoning is
supposed to protect us and the lifestyle that comes with that zoning. Deny R5 zoning in
this unique agricultural area. R5 is atrocious and does not fit anything on Fowler Lane.
Thank you for your consideration.
Joan Cook
6115 Fowler Lane
Bozeman, MT 59718