HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-19-21 Public Comment - J. & G. Cook - Buffalo Run App. 20112To: City ofBozeman Department of Community DevelopmentConcerning: Applicatioii 20112 Buffalo Run, Fowler Lane BozemauFrom: Joan Cook, 6115 Fowler Lane, Bozeman, MT 59718January 19,2021Dear Commission Members,We have lived on Fowler Lane for more than 40 years. My son and his family alsolive on Fowler Lane... they are 5th and 6th generation Montanans. We live about 1/2 milefrom the proposed R5 development on property that is zoned one home per twenty acres.Fowler Lane is an agriculture area. It is a gravel road. I have watched the city moving closerevery year and know that it will come. However, taking one home per 20 acres to an R5development is atrocious! This is not the place for high-density zoning. At what point areyou going to protect the landowners whom have worked hard for years in an zoned areathat values open land, livestock, crop production, and wildlife? In addition, this proposedR5 zone change is less than 14 mile from land where elk routinely migrate for winter feed.We feel especially bad for the neighbors bordering this zone change request. For yearsthey have worked hard on their beautiful property and home, knowing that they wereprotected from high-density housing. They paid the high price for their land as one homeper 20 acres. Please, help them by not allowing high density right next to their rural homesand animals, no matter what. R5 development does not fit with anything on Fowler Lane. Itjust isn't right or honest to allow for R5 zoning in an area zoned for 1 home per 20 acres.Do something similar to your recent development and zoning change on southern FowlerLane, Open 40. There, lower density development accommodates the rural atmosphere andwildlife migration. We, in agriculture, are being pushed out. A solution could be to zone ahigher density on the eastern half of the proposed property while having low densitytowards Fowler Lane and the people already living there. In conclusion, do not approve R5or other high density zoning in this valuable agricultural area.^Respectfully,Joan W. Cook _N^.^s^"~^Q<P^N.^^ .C?^^^-Gary L. Cook /^-^^/ ^ ^/- (^?^ L (?QOl^-~v' —T