HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-14-23 Public Comment - B. Michaels - Please DO NOT eliminate R1 and R2 zoning!From:Bethany Michaels
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Subject:[EXTERNAL]Please DO NOT eliminate R1 and R2 zoning!
Date:Thursday, September 14, 2023 4:59:34 PM
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Dear City if Bozeman,
Please DO NOT eliminate R1 and R2 zoning in Bozeman.
Please DO continue to more carefully consider what neighborhoods/corridors to open up for further development.
Such as the expanded limits along main, 7th, and 19th.
Also please consider encouraging developers with zoning of newly developed land along the outer edges of the city
— zoning that would encourage developments of large apartment buildings with very small -sized apartments (like
micro-sized, the size of an RV, a hotel suite, or tiny European one and two room flats). Build as small as it takes to
be $750-$1200 per month. Go as far out along the edges of city limits as possible to make the dirt more affordable
to build on. Give the developers tax break incentives or other incentives to build such mini-unit apartments. Then
route city bus stops to those new locations.
Developments like that would give affordable housing options to those who’ve lost trailer house options and are
living in campers on the streets, and new college graduates who work coffee shop jobs and ski bum jobs, and young
singles/couples/families who want to save up for a down payment and are willing to live small to do it. Or retired
locals on fixed income who just want to stay near family and are willing to live small to do it.
At the rate Bozeman is growing, think tiny European/micro size apartments, on new dirt, with good public transit.
Don’t totally wreck the city in giving the developers a free for all of zoning.
I also believe opening up just North Rouse for bigger zoning would be good. Zone the whole street for Mixed use
buildings if it’s not already. (And I live right next to rouse at 310 E Peach St. I don’t want the rest of my
neighborhood wrecked, but Rouse makes sense for what all I see there from main to Story Mill Park.
Thank you,
- Bethany Michaels