HomeMy WebLinkAbout02-20-24 Public Comment - J. King - Comment on Appeal of Site Plan 22047From:Jeffrey King
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Subject:[EXTERNAL]Comment on Appeal of Site Plan 22047
Date:Monday, February 19, 2024 8:15:45 PM
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Re: Appeal of the City’s Approval of Site Plan #22047
Commissioners,
When the Sundance Springs PUD was approved the Bozeman City Commissioners of that time
designated the parcel under review, Lot #2, as part of a potential Neighborhood Services
area. Kagy Korner was maybe going to be re-created in Sundance Springs. Serving local
neighborhood needs and reducing across town driving was the Commission’s intent.
The current applicant asks this City Commission to ignore the regulations of the PUD, the
Master Plan and the Development Guidelines and Covenants by allowing the construction of
densely packed destination business spaces on Lot #2. The proposed site plan with two multi-
story buildings - instead of the one low-rise structure approved in the Master Plan - indicates
the current Lot #2 owners do not think small businesses mainly serving the immediate
neighborhoods are viable on this valuable land.
To be commercially viable, and therefore marketable by the current developers, they must ask
your approval for two large buildings that gobble up the land in a manner that leaves only 44
parking spaces for what could at times exceed 275-350 employees and patrons. From the
applicant’s architectural drawing it is easy to calculate the number of seats inside and outside
of the two proposed buildings and to conclude that these structures are NOT intended to
house Neighborhood Service businesses.
The proposed buildings are specifically designed for larger destination businesses which will
attract patrons from all across the Gallatin Valley. People will drive to Sundance Springs to
dine, drink and sit outdoors on patios and lawns with hundreds of other patrons. The streets
near these behemoth buildings will be hazardously jammed with arriving, departing and
parked vehicles, the vast majority of which will be from outside of the neighborhood. That was
not the City Commission’s original intent for this land, nor is such oversized, dense
development allowed on Lot #2 by the legally binding Master Plan and Development
Guidelines.
This applicant’s site plan confirms that Lot #2 is not a viable Neighborhood Services property
when judged by the binding Guidelines and Master Plan. The Findings of Fact and Order were
written in 1998 as the PUD was created. In Findings Condition #29 the Commission stipulated
that, should the Neighborhood Services use prove untenable, Lots #1 and #2 could be
converted into six residential lots adherent to the Sundance Springs Covenants and
Guidelines. I suggest that you abide by the Findings of Fact and move ahead with the rezoning
of Lot #2 into two residential lots and that you implement the same change in zoning for Lot
#1, converting it into four Sundance Springs residential lots.
Please grant the appeal and deny application #22047. It is time to rezone these Lots!
Respectfully Submitted,
Jeffrey King - 24 year Sundance Springs owner and former BOD member
Re: Appeal #23214 of the City’s Approval of Site Plan #22047
Commissioners,
When the Sundance Springs PUD was approved the Bozeman City Commissioners of that �me
designated the parcel under review, Lot #2, as part of a poten�al Neighborhood Services area.
Kagy Korner was maybe going to be re-created in Sundance Springs. Serving local neighborhood
needs and reducing across town driving was the Commission’s intent.
The current applicant asks this City Commission to ignore the regula�ons of the PUD, the
Master Plan and the Development Guidelines and Covenants by allowing the construc�on of
densely packed des�na�on business spaces on Lot #2. The proposed site plan with two mul�-
story buildings - instead of the one low-rise structure approved in the Master Plan - indicates
the current Lot #2 owners do not think small businesses mainly serving the immediate
neighborhoods are viable on this valuable land.
To be commercially viable, and therefore marketable by the current developers, they must ask
your approval for two large buildings that gobble up the land in a manner that leaves only 44
parking spaces for what could at �mes exceed 275-350 employees and patrons. From the
applicant’s architectural drawing it is easy to calculate the number of seats inside and outside of
the two proposed buildings and to conclude that these structures are NOT intended to house
Neighborhood Service businesses.
The proposed buildings are specifically designed for larger des�na�on businesses which will
atract patrons from all across the Galla�n Valley. People will drive to Sundance Springs to dine,
drink and sit outdoors on pa�os and lawns with hundreds of other patrons. The streets near
these behemoth buildings will be hazardously jammed with arriving, depar�ng and parked
vehicles, the vast majority of which will be from outside of the neighborhood. That was not the
City Commission’s original intent for this land, nor is such oversized, dense development
allowed on Lot #2 by the legally binding Master Plan and Development Guidelines.
This applicant’s site plan confirms that Lot #2 is not a viable Neighborhood Services property
when judged by the binding Guidelines and Master Plan. The Findings of Fact and Order were
writen in 1998 as the PUD was created. In Findings Condi�on #29 the Commission s�pulated
that, should the Neighborhood Services use prove untenable, Lots #1 and #2 could be converted
into six residen�al lots adherent to the Sundance Springs Covenants and Guidelines. I suggest
that you abide by the Findings of Fact and move ahead with the rezoning of Lot #2 into two
residen�al lots and that you implement the same change in zoning for Lot #1, conver�ng it into
four Sundance Springs residen�al lots.
Please grant the appeal and deny applica�on #22047. It is �me to rezone these Lots!
Respec�ully Submited,
Jeffrey King - 24 year Sundance Springs owner and former BOD member