HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-27-21 Public Comment - M. Herring - Lamme Street ZMAFrom:agenda@bozeman.net
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Subject:Thank you for your public comment.
Date:Monday, September 27, 2021 8:52:11 PM
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Form Name:Public Comment Form
Date & Time:09/27/2021 8:52 PM
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Submitter ID:44049
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Email:
agenda@bozeman.net
Mail to:
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
To the members of the City Commission and the planning department:
I am writing to give public comment on application 21356, to change the zoning of a portion of the block
bordered by Lamme/Beall and Grand/4th from R4 to B3.
I live in this neighborhood, at 313 N Grand. This area has recently been a hotbed of proposed development.
Over a year ago, the city commission voted to change the zoning of the parking lot across the street from
me to pave the way for Homebase to build a multiplex of generic high-rises.
In approving the Homebase master plan, the Design Review Board Stafff Report cites the "new urban form"
in the neighborhood, "emerging over the past few years as a dynamic mixed use and urban mass and scale
for this revitalized downtown neighborhood."
Wow. I was unaware that my neighborhood needed revitalizing. It has always seemed vibrant to me. "Mass
and scale" have not heretofore been seen as desirable. Our streets consisted of single family homes for 120
years.
It seems to me that the planning department has a vision for my neighborhood that it different from the
vision of those who live here. And that that vision cannot be accomplished without changing some more
zoning to make things easier for developers.
If you allow this zoning change, you will diminish the quality of life for my entire neighborhood, and for
who? For the developer, and for people who do not yet live here, or will never live here (ie, will be using
VRBOs, or will be using it as their Bozeman pad for a few weeks in summer and winter). Why adversely
affect the many to help the privileged few?
People want to move here because of the character of our town. More six story monoliths, built to create
some new urban vision, can only detract from that character.
Enough!! Please just say no.
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Thank you,
City Of Bozeman
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