HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-27-21 Public Comment - M. Herring - The IvesFrom:agenda@bozeman.net
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Date:Monday, September 27, 2021 9:27:17 PM
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Date & Time:09/27/2021 9:27 PM
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Attn: City Commission
PO Box 1230
Bozeman, MT 59771
First Name Michael
Last Name Herring
Email Address herrboz@aol.com
Phone Number 406-599-4706
Comments
Dear folks at City of Bozeman Department of Community Development:
I'm submitting public comment on application 21165, The Ives.
I live in the neighborhood, at 313 North Grand.
This will be the fifth large scale building that this developer has put up within a few blocks of my home. I am
not impressed with the appearance of any of these buildings, nor with their appropriateness for the scale of
my neighborhood of single family homes. They are all 5-6 stories tall, with no pretense of architectural
adornments. They arise directly, and forbiddingly, from the sidewalk. Although they kowtow to the current
"density is better" mindset, they make no attempt to solve the affordable housing shortage. The are dense,
but VERY expensive, and very unsightly.
This building, the first of many in this 2 block area, is no different. Indeed, it looks the same as the others.
(Look at any of them from behind sometime; they are shockingly flat, unadorned, monolithic)
I have reviewed the Community Planning Board approval document, and I find them somewhat gushing in
their support of Homebase's creation of "a new urban form in this part of the City’s Downtown
neighborhood."
"A new urban form"??? Did Homebase write this, or our city's Community Planning Board?
It goes on to extol "a dynamic mixed use and urban mass and scale for this revitalized Downtown
neighborhood." Mass and scale? MASS AND SCALE? Time was that these were felt to be deal-breaking
negatives for a development built next to our downtown neighborhoods.
People want to move here for many reasons, but I propose that living in "a new urban form" of "dynamic
mixed use" is generally not among them.
Please, please, do not continue the slow degradation of our historic, cherished downtown neighborhoods
in pursuit of some vision of density. Density that will profit a few (the developer, the people who will rent
these condos out on Air BnB) at the expense of the many (those of us who live here).
And if we must have density, at least favor development that is not the same old building with a new name
slapped on. In 20 years, no one is going to look back only on these buildings fondly. Nor will they honor the
wisdom of the planning board that approved them.
Enough.
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City Of Bozeman
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