HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-25-23 Public Comment - A. Sweeney - Attn_ community development board, gambrel roofFrom:Alison Sweeney
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Subject:[EXTERNAL]Attn: community development board, gambrel roof
Date:Friday, September 22, 2023 11:55:14 AM
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My name is Alison Sweeney, I live on S. 14th Ave, I was born and raised in Bozeman.
Hopefully there’s going to be more public hearing on the unified development code before it is
passed??? I want to request that a presentation be made that details the worst case scenario ofdevelopment. In other words, what could be the most drastic thing allowed in the new R-A
zone? What would developers be allowed to get away with?
I am not an architect, but I’m also not an idiot. I have been wondering how someone couldpotentially get to 45 feet tall with a structure if the wall plate height is only 25 feet maximum.
I have attached a drawing illustrating something called a gambrel roof. I’ve put it next to my
existing house, and in the footprint of my neighbors current house. Sorry I can’t do this inCAD. I don’t have the skills and I’m currently traveling for work, so I don’t even have access
to my computer. but could someone please tell me why this structure would not be allowed?Because I think it would be allowed.
Not only would my well-being be severely affected by having no sunlight directly on my
house for a significant portion of the year, increasing the risk of ice damming, but it wouldknock out my $20,000 solar electric array, and my $10,000 solar thermal array, which
generates my hot water.
Please reassure me, and (in public)the rest of the community, why something like this would not be allowed to happen under the
new unified development code.
You need to codify protections for existing solar electric and solar thermal systems. I wouldsuggest incorporating R-1 and R-2 into a new zone and limiting this new zone to two stories
only. 45 feet is too tall for a majority of projects in this area!
Thank you,Alison Sweeney