HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-27-22 Public Comment - S. Kirchhoff - Transportation Advisory Board comment Apr 27, 2022From:Steve Kirchhoff
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Subject:Transportation Advisory Board comment Apr 27, 2022
Date:Wednesday, April 27, 2022 5:26:38 PM
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Dear Transportation Advisory Board,
I am writing to urge you to NOT adopt Resolution 2022-03.
There is not enough time to enumerate the many lapses in reason and representative government enshrined in this
brief resolution. The first thing I would say is, this board has no rightful stake in making this un-democratic
decision. This board, the Transportation Board, which is governed by the economic development wing of the city, is
not the rightful entity to manage the city's responsibility to citizens in the maintenance of their quality of life.
Economic development is not properly a concern of people living in residential neighborhoods, and the board that
decides crucial questions bearing on the quality of neighborhoods should be responsive to their daily existence, not
the enhancement of Bozeman City’s economic development. So, the organizational chart which puts your board as
overseers of this decision, is wrong. And you are making a decision in a domain where you have no rightful place to
make one.
This resolution makes me heartsick. This resolution, whatever else you might entertain yourselves in thinking it
accomplishes, is designed to increase margins for developers, who are beholden to finance houses and their
benchmark margins. My hunch is, no one on this board believes what I just wrote in the previous sentence. My
hunch is, you believe you are doing something good for the future of the community. That’s why I am heartsick.
Sincerely,
Steve Kirchhoff