HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-01-21 Public Comment - R. Cotten - The IvesFrom:Rex Cotten
To:Agenda
Subject:Application 21165
Date:Friday, October 1, 2021 12:52:00 PM
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I am opposed to this do for he following reasons:
This is an area of direct transition between business and residential areas. The plans do not
provide an adequate transition between this massive 6-story, 171,654 gross square foot (gsf)building and the adjacent neighborhood. In fact, the building is across the alley and street from
single family homes on two sides. The parking lot this is being built on was zoned residentialuntil recently. Neighbors protested the zone change from residential to business to no avail.
· This Design Review Board staff report lists this Bozeman Community Plan policy asrelevant to the project: “Goal N-1: Promote housing diversity, including missing middle
housing.” Here’s a definition of missing middle housing: “Missing Middle Housing is a rangeof house-scale buildings with multiple units—compatible in scale and form with detached
single-family homes—located in a walkable neighborhood.” Examples include Single-familycottages, Duplexes, Townhomes, Bungalow courts, and Carriage houses. By any definition, a
6-story, 171,654 gross square foot (gsf) mixed-use development is not “missing middlehousing.”
· This building goes against the Bozeman Community Plan Goal N-4: “Continue toencourage Bozeman’s sense of place.” The majority of HomeBase buildings, including this
one, look basically the same: a large mass and scale building with no character. This does notbuild a sense of place. When standing on Lamme and looking at the back of the Element, 5
West, and the AC Hotel or on Mendelhall looking at the front of these buildings, I couldliterally be anywhere. There is no sense of Bozeman at all. A proliferation of more of these
buildings dissolves our sense of place.
Thank you,
Rex Cotten
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