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Home My WebLink About02-13-24 Public Comment - J. Polasik - Re_ Urban CampingFrom:Joe Polasik To:Joe Polasik Cc:Agenda Subject:[EXTERNAL]Re: Urban Camping Date:Monday, February 12, 2024 7:23:54 PM 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. Following up on this. I would like to thank to commission for taking action with an ordinanceand following through with enforcement. We have seen an immediate affect at our office on West Hemlock! I can sleep much easy knowing our employees are dramatically less likely tohave an altercation coming on going from our place of business. I am no longer spending hours per week reviewing camera footage and I'm sure the Bozeman PD is happy to not bereceiving my calls every other week. We went from have some sort of problem on the street at least every week to zero as soon as the ordinance was enforced. We cannot thank you enough for this. Thank you! I don't not know how this changed other areas of the city or the peoples lives that are/wereliving on the streets. I would be interested in some follow up to the effectiveness of the ordinance as a whole on the city and the people to know if there are still problems areas orhow people are dealing with it. Joe On Tue, Sep 19, 2023, 14:45 Joe Polasik <joe.polasik@moduluscorp.com> wrote: My comments on tonights ordinance for consideration now that I have had a chance to readit. I think the ordinance should be approved as is to quickly abate some of the current issues we are seeing. I also think the following should be considered for amendment. Increase distance from business entrances.Add a distance from school, daycare property, parks and residences. Distance should be more like 1000ft otherwise there will be location loop holes people will find that will continue to negatively impact businesses and residences. Is the city really going to be able to track time stayed at each location? I think a permittingprocess would make more sense than a blanket approval on camping with movement every 5 days. Permitting would allow the city to decide where and when the camping can happenand adjust as needed. This would also put it on the people partaking to make sure they are approved and provide this information instead of the city trying to get it. If someone isunable to handle the permitting process they likely need more help anyway and that would get flagged immediately. The city could also provide basic services in specific locations asseen fit to reduce waste instead of guessing where people will show up. Thank you for you consideration and look forward to seeing the current ordinance enacted tonight. Joe On Mon, Sep 11, 2023, 17:41 Joe Polasik <joe.polasik@moduluscorp.com> wrote:Hello, We here on West Hemlock Street fully support the proposed ordinance on urban camping in Bozeman. We look forward to seeing this ordinance enacted and enforced. Thank you! Joe PolasikModulus On Fri, Jun 9, 2023, 13:03 Joe Polasik <joe.polasik@moduluscorp.com> wrote: We had another assault in front of our office yesterday and had to call 911. We are alsocontinuing to see vandalism and theft from our property. Is the city planning on addressing the situation or are the local businesses/residents going to continue toshoulder the problem? We have had to continue to spend time and money to deal with problems and secure ourproperty. We cannot use our property as we intended. We have to keep our doors locked during business hours. Anything we try to do outdoors here puts our employeesin harm's way and we are worried about them getting to and from their vehicles. If it is not bolted down or locked up apparently it is fair game for the unwelcome residents touse or take. I hope you are losing sleep over this because you will be to blame when something worse happens here due to your inaction. PLEASE HELP!!!!! Joe Polasik Principal c: 406.600.1211 | w: moduluscorp.com Mechanical | Electrical | Lighting | Technology On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 1:38 PM Joe Polasik <joe.polasik@moduluscorp.com> wrote:I have not seen any follow up from the city commission on how the urban caming situation is going to be handled and if laws will be adjusted to empower the police force to act to help bozeman residents. People continue to show up to live onthe streets and it is only a matter of time until this starts to affect more residential neighborhoods. I understand there is a clean up effort in the works to try and provide some temporaryrelief in what we deal with daily and that is very much appreciated! This will help but we also need a long term solution to help people in need without relying onexisting residents and businesses to be the front line. The clean up efforts are needed to get the streets back into working order but it will also only chase people around andthey will likely return or more people will show up if we don't find viable locations for people to park or live. We would really like to see some law adjustments or longer term solutions put inplace to help keep our city to the standards that we all love. Thank You! Joe Joe Polasik Principal c: 406.600.1211 | w: moduluscorp.com Mechanical | Electrical | Lighting | Technology Joe Polasik Modulus