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HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-05-21 Public Comment - J. Cook - Buffalo RunFrom: agenda@bozeman.net To: Agenda Subject: Thank you for your public comment. Date: Friday, February 5, 2021 11:44:00 AM A new entry to a form/survey has been submitted. Form Name: Public Comment Form Date & Time: 02/05/2021 11:43 AM Response #: 869 Submitter ID: 34789 IP address: 97.121.222.151 Time to complete: 13 min. , 8 sec. Survey Details Page 1 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 First Name Joan Last Name Cook Email Address joancook2000@yahoo.com Phone Number 406-587-3773 Comments 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 these roads are dangerous on which to try to move equipment or ride horses. Zoning is supposed to protect us and the lifestyle that comes with that zoning. Do the honest thing and 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 If you would like to submit additional documents (.pdf, .doc, .docx, .xls, .xlsx, .gif, .jpg, .png, .rtf, .txt) along with your comment, you may alternately address agenda@bozeman.net directly to ensure receipt of all information. Thank you, City Of Bozeman This is an automated message generated by the Vision Content Management System™. Please do not reply directly to this email.