HomeMy WebLinkAbout07-23-22 Public Comment - L. Nichols - A personal note on Six Range for submission into public commentFrom:Laura Nichols
To:Agenda; Lynn Hyde; Anna Bentley; Brian Krueger
Subject:A personal note on Six Range for submission into public comment
Date:Saturday, July 23, 2022 4:46:49 PM
Attachments:Public Comment Letter_2_to City of Bzn re Six Range West Condos #21235_7-23-2022_LNichols.docx
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Thank you for including this into the public record for this project. My letter is
attached.
Respectfully,
Laura C. Nichols, RPh
4283 Palisade Drive
Bozeman, MT 59718
July 23, 2022
Dear Bozeman Development and Planning Board,
A personal thought on the Six Range West Condos project:
While it appears that the recent July 18, 2022 meeting of the Community Board of Directors is leaning
heavily to approving the overall design if this project in tact (height, rooftop patios, etc.), it is a sad
statement that this group of individuals will not preserve two of the primary reasons they, like me and
many, many others chose to live in Bozeman and Montana:
1. We LIVE in and LOVE LIVING in “Big Sky Country”: Montana is called “Big Sky Country” because
of its abundance of wide-open spaces and skies that stretch uninterrupted to the horizon. How
is having a five-story behemoth high-rise building embracing the truth of the description? It’s a
shame that no one on this Board has any gumption to address how this development, as
currently designed and located within a modest, suburban area of the city, changes the
landscape permanently by eliminating ANY Big Sky for surrounding homeowners and residents.
2. Montana (and Bozeman) ARE “The Last Best Place”: This unofficial motto for Montana (and all
things that are perceived as Montana), is threatened every day by your decisions as city leaders.
Your decisions ARE a threat to this place and they will live on in perpetuity when they become
tangible entities like a 5-story monolithic condo building in the heart of western Bozeman
suburbs.
It saddens me that you are not considering the time and effort of each individual who has objected
publicly to the size and scale of this project. By choosing this type of ‘progress’ over practicality, not only
are you scarring the neighborhoods in which Six Range will reside, but you are telling those who have
provided well-articulated reasons for considering revisions that they, their ideas and their words don’t
matter.
It must be nice to have such power. I will think about that as I sit and look out my window for the next
three years of SR construction and an eternity of its life in my backyard and dream about how, if only
this had three stories, I might see the Montana Big Sky from my backyard instead of some drunk on a
rooftop bar or patio lights and bikes hanging from the balcony 60’ up in what used to a sliver of the Big
Sky in The Last Best Place.
Respectfully submitted,
Laura C. Nichols, RPh
4283 Palisade Drive
Bozeman, MT