HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-29-24 Public Comment - B. Johnsen - The GuthrieCustomer Submission #CS-24-352 Open
Created on May 29, 2024 by Brock Johnsen
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the Guthrie, I wrote the attached doc quick please excuse if ru
Assigned to
Mike Maas
Collaborator/s
Lacie Kloosterhof,
Anna Bentley
Due By
06/01/2024
Submission Age
1 Day
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Internal by Brock
Johnsen
Category
Public Comment
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Clerk's Office
Customer Name
Brock Johnsen
Customer Email
BrockJohnsen@gmail.com
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Location 620 North 7th Avenue, Bozeman, MT 59715
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Mike Maas 05/30/2024 07:41am Email
Thank you for your submission to the City of Bozeman
Good morning,
Your public comment has been received and will be distributed for review.
Thank you,
Street Address
620 North 7th Avenue
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City
Bozeman
State
MT
Zip
59715
APN Assessor's Address
Flagged?
No
Census Tract Block Group LowModPct
CDBG Eligible?
No
CDBG Approved?
No
Owner Name
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Owner's Address
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Owner's Mailing Address
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Mike Maas, MPA| City Clerk
City of Bozeman | 121 N. Rouse Ave. | Bozeman, MT 59715
D: 406.582.2321 | C: 406.599.0804
This email is in reference to issue CS-24-352 (CRM-cb2iaXWnS). In case of any queries, you can respond to this email and we will get back to you as soon as we can.
Bozeman, MT
121 North Rouse Avenue , Bozeman, MT 59715
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Hello Terry and COB City Council, please share!,
The Guthrie is a beautiful Building that adds value to the city of Bozeman. Community
development, planning, City council, business inside midtown urban renewal district,
especially those that have invested their lives and livelihoods into north 7th Ave, have
taken great steps to make Bozeman the most livable place, this is a great vision that has
been 20+ years in the making and now starting to see results. You know those better than
me, thank you for your stewardship.
I've heard traffic and density as the concerns, sure more growing city. N6th, N5th, short
street could all be landscaped to half streets, not adversely affecting the business on n7th
and keeping the Whitter school safe. The streets next to playground could be landscaped
in, not adversely affecting house traffic access to the east.
The TIF for this area offers a significant incentive to build, that alone should be enough of a
financial incentive, most if not all of home bases apartment buildings in Bozeman are in
TIF's. This should be a working relationship between home base and City of Bozeman.
Affordable housing apartment size less than 500-600sq' do not seem livable to me, in the
most livable place. If the unit size of the affordable house was increased to 500-600sq' this
would lower the # of units in the development, alleviating density, traffic and offering a
chance for home base to improving on its working relationship with the City of Bozeman.
I've been reading, hearing this phrase from opposition groups to development in the core of
Bozeman, stating wanting to help rewrite the UDC? The UDC is written by career
professionals, degreed professionals in the City of Bozeman Planning, Building,
engineering, more I can't name all, that have dedicated their lives shaping/wrangling the
fasting growing City for how many years now? I applaud their effort, dedication, think it is
self-centered to think of rewriting the UDC to individuals needs and wants.
I support more density in the city of Bozeman and the proposed UDC from December of
2023, more density to be honest. This supports small builders, creates more foot traffic
around local business, putting money in the pockets of local folks, I support. To combat
the call from 20-15 years ago for more housing, more housing, The cheaply mass-
produced mass apartment buildings and complex, south 19th university area as example.
That adds no value to the city of Bozeman and will be a drain on city resources in the future
if not now and needs to stop now.
Walmart 2000, the city of Bozeman would not allow until certain conditions were meet.
We are the fasting growing city/county in the United States for the last 20+ years.
Developers need to be informed before purchase of land or the moment they walk in the
door of planning, a set of plans from another development elsewhere, meeting the
minimum requirements of the COB UDC will not be approved or encounter substantial
resistances to being approved until it is considered by planning to be a unique structure
that adds value to the city of Bozeman, MT.
Also kicking the can/set of plans down the road/hall to the bad actors in Planning, we all
know who they are, to approve a project will not be allowed anymore. You want to build in
the fasting growing city/county in USA, then add value to the community. Unwavering
support of individuals in COB departments needs to be there, it is not easy to stand up
against multi million/billion dollar developers and their resources.
If I look Zillow now there are 500+ apartments on the market with more coming. I've heard
and guessing an affordable housing fund of 7-10 million. For this conversation 10 million.
Short term federal bills are getting 5.5% now, that is $550,000 interest 1 year that can go
toward subsidizing rent for working Bozeman. Helping hundreds if not thousands pay rent.
With more grants growing the principle, keeping the principle's integrity going forward or
until a solution is found for affordable housing. Federal, State, City says you can't do that,
we are dealing with a burden of a federal mandate with 0 resources, this is how we are
handling affordable house.
Please consider this letter, application for vacant city council seat.
Sincerely,
Brock Johnsen