HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-13-24 Public Comment - K. Pettyjohn - Unhoused Permits are a waste of $From:Katie Pettyjohn
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Unhoused Permits are a waste of $
Date:Tuesday, August 13, 2024 12:14:23 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, rumor mill has said that you are looking at wasting even more of the city's money and
validating campers in the street further by issuing permits (which we knew you were going todo anyway by ignoring the survey results). The city attorney said this would be almost
impossible to keep up on and a waste of our city employee resources.
If you go this route, I at a minimum expect those permits to only allow camping on cityproperty. If you force all of these neighborhoods in Baxter Meadows to follow all of the
zoning and plat rules you make them go through, how can you then allow people to do drugsand put their feces in our water right next door?
My faith in you is zero to enforce this because you haven't enforced the other ordinances you
passed anyway. There are numerous campers who haven't moved in over 6months.
I urge you to do away with ROW camping entirely.
Also, because you seem to think this is just a NIMBY issue, I'll act like it, a reminder that my<5 year old and elderly mother play less than 300 ft from many of the campers. Would you be
comfortable with that for your family? https://www.kbzk.com/news/crime-courts/urban-camping-crime-saturday-drug-bust-in-
bozeman-sends-three-to-jail
Katie Pettyjohn