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Home My WebLink About04-25-24 Public Comment - S. Bieluch - Re_ 811 W Mendenhall Public NoticeFrom:Scott Bieluch To:Jacob Doesschate; Planning Technician; Bozeman Public Comment; City Desk Subject:[EXTERNAL]Re: 811 W Mendenhall Public Notice Date:Tuesday, April 23, 2024 10:36:15 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. Hello, Thank you for the reply. This is the second time this developer has failed to abide by the law and notify me. The first time this developer got away with violating my rights and held ameeting and successfully changed the zoning without notifying me and violating my property rights. The City held a second meeting to include me, but it was a sham, the commissionershad already made up their minds and did not listen to one word that I or any other neighbor said. Commissioner Coburn said 'I hate doing things twice' , his attitude was let's get this overwith and there was no changing his mind or getting him to listen to a single word I said. I lost all my faith in democracy at the local level. The zoning change for this project was unlawfuland I still intend to sue the city. Attempting to exclude me a second time only proves my case and demonstrates that this is a crooked developer trying to unfairly and illegally interfere withthe democratic process. Thank you for forcing them to follow the City rules. Attempting to notify me by general delivery addressed to my condo's name was a deliberate attempt by a shady developer to violate my rights and exclude me from the process. I verymuch do not appreciate this attempted crime and I would like to request an investigation - clearly the developer has my name and address from the zoning fraud they previouslycommitted and were called out for. My house would not even be a condo if not for the Planning Department forcing the change on me, and then the fact that my house is technicallya condo is used to discriminate against my ownership and exclude me from notification of multiple Planning Department Projects adds insult to injury. It is completely unfair that theplanning department forced me into calling my 1960 raised ranch a condo, and then used that condo label to exclude me and deny my property rights. I have several questions for whoever is in charge of this project - I would like to know if this project is under Administrative Review? It most certainly needs tobe, the developer has a very shady reputation and is currently trying to sneak many bad things past the public. If the project is not under administrative review, how may I request that itgoes to Administrative Review? How can I find out what variances or deviations or exemptions from the City rules that the project is seeking? I fear the developer is trying to sneak even more height through, when thewhole neighborhood was against the zoning change and no one wanted the fifth floor allowed in the first place. Are they seeking a pass on the City's building height rules? How can I officially request that the developer provide a parking study for W Lamme St? Myproperty will be highly negatively affected and severely de-valued by increased traffic on W. Lamme. It is already like the Grand Prix for the Domino's Piazza Drivers and has anextremely high volume of traffic. Many of the houses don't have driveways. My own driveway is blocked at least once a month due to the current parking shortage. Adding 95 units with 68 parking spaces will negatively impact the quality of life in this neighborhood, solely toincrease the profits of an out of state developer. Parking is already in severely short supply in this neighborhood. I'd like to request that with this development, there is a condition that my street be made Permit Parking Only. Myparking options are limited to a one block radius. One block to the West is the High School Permit Zone. One Block East is North 7th Ave, not feasible to park on and carry my groceriesback to my house. My truck would be vandalized or hit or stolen if overnight parking is even allowed on N 7th. One block South is W, Mendenhall, no Parking there Tu and Th overnightand the 446 daily vehicle trips will dominate W Mendenhall Parking and leave me no space there. To the North is a dead end N 8th Ave. There are a few spaces there, but only one houseon the street has a driveway and it is a triplex. The Vet employees currently use all the available street parking. If the street on my block is full, I have zero parking options. People park in front of my house to shop at Basiclai - a retail store the city allowed to havezero off street parking, People park in front of my house to pick up a piazza at Domino's. People park in front of my house and eat tacos from Taco Johns drive thru. People park infront of my house and shop at the used clothing store on N. 7th. There is already a parking shortage!!! Can you please pass this email along to whoever is in charge of making parkingpermit zones and let them know that this area desperately, desperately, desperately needs to be included in a permit zone currently and even more so (if that is even possible) when thisbuilding's construction commences. Please, there are daily conflicts on my block already over parking, or lack of parking that is. This project should be re-thought completely. The City is being taken advantage of. Offering5% of the units as affordable is a complete disgrace and does not deserve any incentives from the City, whether they are "shallow" or not. This project as proposed is a bad deal for the Cityof Bozeman. If the developer wants incentives, variances, deviations etc from the people and City of Bozeman, then the Commissioners need to represent the people's interest and demand25% affordable housing. You'll never build out of a housing crisis by offering 5% affordable units and selling 95% high end luxury apartments to out of state 2nd homeowners. Fivepercent affordable units is not good enough. The City and people of Bozeman can do much, much better than what this developer is proposing. Thank you, Scott Bieluch805 W. Lamme St Bozeman On Tue, Apr 23, 2024 at 12:51 PM Jacob Doesschate <jdoesschate@bozeman.net> wrote: Good afternoon Scott, I would like to thank you for bringing the error in the public notice to our attention, the public notice was not sent out to all adjacent property owners by the applicant on the 811 WMendenhall project. At the Department of Community Development, we greatly appreciate that you alerted us of errors made by the applicant during the public notice period. As such,this project will be required to have a new notice period, with new mailers sent out to all adjacent property owners. I will make sure to personally check the list of adjacent propertyowners, to ensure that you will receive a mailer containing the notice, during the new notice period. Thanks, Jake Doesschate | Development Review Coordinator, Community Development City of Bozeman | 20 East Olive St. | P.O. 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