HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-28-24 Public Comment - T. McInnis - Fowler Ave extensionFrom:Tim McInnis
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Fowler Ave extension
Date:Wednesday, June 26, 2024 8:28:55 AM
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Bozeman City Commission;
This is a copy of the public comment I submitted two years ago and for which I never received
an acknowledgement. Assuming it got lost in the shuffle of the long, long, long overdueprocess this improvement has taken to materialize I want to resubmit:
Strong support of Fowler Avenue extension.
We moved back to Bozeman in 1993 (having lived here in the 80’s as students). We
looked at several houses on the east side of (N) Sweetgrass Ave but knew even way back
then (30+ years ago!!!) that they backed up to the proposed and logical Fowler Avenue
extension so we purchased a house on (N) Sheridan Ave instead.
Anyone who purchased a house on the east side of Sweetgrass Ave anytime in the last 3
decades (!!!) certainly did so with the full knowledge that Fowler Ave would eventually
be extended “in their backyard” and would/could effect their long term property values
and green-space; it was their free choice to do so and they have enjoyed/become
accustomed to the “privilege” for 30 years. Now the few want to impose the effects of
their poor real estate/financial decision on the many and the commission hasn’t found it
within them to overcome their inertia.
Fowler Ave is, was, and forever shall be the logical (and long, long, long overdue)
north-south connector on the west side of Bozeman connecting present Fowler to now
improved Davis Lane. Please get along with this important and rationale transportation
expansion/improvement project and don’t succumb to the irrational request of a few to
downgrade it from the major arterial it needs to be into a glorified street!!
Tim J McInnis3165 Buell DrBozeman, MT 59718