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Home My WebLink About10-25-22 Public Comment - R. Watson - Public Comment - Application 22174 - With Staff ResponseFrom:Nakeisha LyonTo:AgendaCc:Danielle Scharf; Lenna JohnsonSubject:FW: Public Comment - Application 22174 Date:Tuesday, October 25, 2022 9:49:21 AM Additional public comment from the response I previously provided to this individual. Thank you, Nakeisha Lyon, AICP | Associate Planner | Community DevelopmentPronouns: she, her, hersCity of Bozeman | 20 East Olive St. | P.O. Box 1230 | Bozeman, MT 59771P: 406.582.2963 | E: nlyon@bozeman.net | W: www.bozeman.net/planningThe City has enhanced our project intake process and will now be receiving all project submittals - New and Revisions, through ProjectDox. As a result of this transition in process, response times to inquiries may bedelayed. We understand the impacts any delay may create for your site development and we will make every effort to provide you with the highest level of customer service in a timely manner. We encourage youto review our Development Center webpage and become familiar with the new intake process. Your patience during this transition is greatly appreciated. From: Ryan Watson <greenjeansinc@gmail.com> Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2022 8:52 AM To: Nakeisha Lyon <nlyon@BOZEMAN.NET> Subject: Re: Application 22174 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Thanks for your awesome reply. I know a lot of these things have long term tracks and kinda on the surface seem to be good ways to possible get this roadway opened to andthrough the park but i guess the real problem is that clearly Northwestern wanted an access gate. And in building their own gate they got a multi million dollar piece of property.That doesn't seem to generally help the flow and need of the many other users in the zone that may want back and safe access to the rear of this area. Northwest should have paid for that just like any development that wants a roadway and access. Its true some of city land in that 8 + acres is in the floodplain but some is not. I also think that it would bereasonable to assume that the roadway should be built to connect Rouse to mainly behind all this with proper sidewalks ect so all the business and neighbors can use it as an accesspoint not just northwest as they are being put ahead of the general public in this deal. Neighboring buisness could benefit in this area with the connectivity. Roadways parking andaccess all have an intrinsic value to the flow and use of areas in the community and can be built in 100 yr flood paths or drainages i think as theirs many examples....as far as abuildable section a proper roadway would allow for fire resources and access to those city spots not in the plain. Thanks hopefully this can get to the right folks some slight adjustments could really help this area with some of the homelessness issues that seem to hide in the region as well. Best Ryan Watson On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 10:30 AM Nakeisha Lyon <nlyon@bozeman.net> wrote: Hi Ryan, Thank you for your public comment on this project. Your comment has been noted for our records and forwarded to the representative(s) to address or respond to if they deem necessary. From my understanding, the parcel was a land exchange between Northwestern Energy and the City of Bozeman. This was to allow for the construction of Manley Road to connect to Glen Lake Rotary Park as well as providing additional access to the Northwestern Energy Property that exist to the south of Glen Lake Rotary Park. This was approved by the City Commission in 2018. I have attached the preliminary/contingent land exchange agreement as the property appraisal process for this land exchange is denoted in Section 5B beginning on page 5. The access roadway to the north of the current Northwestern Energy facility, and this proposed storage yard is for Northwestern Energy Access only from my understanding of the private access easement which would not require a City standard upgrade of this access road at this time. The land exchange agreement additionally denotes the Northwestern Energy has paid for the construction of Manley Road to the park with other additional costs for engineering and surveying work and the appraised value of the land that based on estimates would be greater than the City Exchange Parcel (Section 4, top of page 5). I am not sure what the appraisals say at this time and where the final agreement for this land exchange is since that is not within the scope of this site plan. However, I can assure you the City is going through the appropriate processes as it would require of anyone else doing development in the community. I have some inquiries out to the City Attorney and the Engineer on the project to make sure I am not missing anything, and to provide you with the appraisals and other documents that I cannot seem to find on our database. Let me know if you have any other concerns or questions, Thank you, Nakeisha Lyon, AICP | Associate Planner | Community DevelopmentPronouns: she, her, hersCity of Bozeman | 20 East Olive St. | P.O. Box 1230 | Bozeman, MT 59771P: 406.582.2963 | E: nlyon@bozeman.net | W: www.bozeman.net/planningThe City has enhanced our project intake process and will now be receiving all project submittals - New and Revisions, through ProjectDox. As a result of this transition in process, response times to inquiries maybe delayed. We understand the impacts any delay may create for your site development and we will make every effort to provide you with the highest level of customer service in a timely manner. We encourageyou to review our Development Center webpage and become familiar with the new intake process. Your patience during this transition is greatly appreciated. From: Ryan Watson <greenjeansinc@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2022 2:15 PM To: Chris Saunders <csaunders@BOZEMAN.NET>; Agenda <agenda@BOZEMAN.NET> Subject: Application 22174 CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Im writing this to address what i feel is another example of the city using land that they own for misuse. Given this parcel is owned by the city of bozeman. Is it not a legalobligation that before transfer, the parcel be apprised and offered to the highest bidder if moved outside the confines of city ownership? Furthermore the unimproved roadwaywith neither lights nor sidewalks is unsafe for other traffic if this is turned into a pole yard? What a horrible use for a section of town that is growing and could be used for thecity. Why would we be obligated to give this to Northwest energy without the roadway being connected as planned over to Manly? You can clearly walk this and see theconnection to the bozeman yard. It could make a killer new planning office is prob worth close to 2 mill and does not yet even have connectivity to the other yard. As a neighbori think this area deserves a better option than to give this parcel to Nortwestern energy....its almost borderline scandal. When other developments are forced to provide parking fixroadways and improve areas for the greater good of the neighborhood. Why are we letting a private company with gobs of resources extort the finite resources and landopportunities of the city. Application 22174City of Bozeman emails are subject to the Right to Know provisions of Montana’s Constitution (Art. II, Sect. 9) and may be considered a “public record” pursuant to Title 2, Chpt. 6, Montana Code Annotated. As such, this email, its sender and receiver, and the contents may be available for public disclosure and will be retained pursuant to the City’s record retention policies. Emails that contain confidential information such as information related to individual privacy may be protected from disclosure under law.