HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-13-23 Public Comment - K. Belton - UDC_ Careful review required; back to the drawing board, with a positive approachFrom:Kate Belton
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Subject:[EXTERNAL]UDC: Careful review required; back to the drawing board, with a positive approach
Date:Friday, October 13, 2023 1:37:48 PM
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Dear Advisory Board,
As a city, we have an opportunity to create positive change through careful and thoroughly-
researched urban planning.
This is exciting — and much needed — as our community faces a shortage of affordablehousing, a regional labor shortage, and an overburdened infrastructure and workforce.
The UDC proposal has caused unintentional harm to the community thus far, in that this
particular proposal does not meet the needs of our community, as you now understand.
The good news is that the feedback from the public gives us an opportunity to take theproposal back to the drawing board, to work to create a new proposal that solves the problems
facing Bozeman today, and offers a plan for a brighter, more sustainable future for thiscommunity.
There is much negativity surrounding this process and the first proposal; I encourage you all to
consider the value of an engaged public and take their collective knowledge as a means towork hard for a better solution.
You have a team of engaged citizens ready to support you in this effort to affect positive
change. It will require more work, a slower and more thoughtful pace, and a consideration oflivelihoods and realities not your own — but it will be worth it for the economic viability of
this place we all call home.
Sincerely, Kate Belton