HomeMy WebLinkAbout12-27-24 Public Comment - A. Sweeney - Thank you HPAB!From:Alison Sweeney
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Thank you HPAB!
Date:Friday, December 20, 2024 9:54:31 AM
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In this season of gratitude I want to thank the members of the Historic Preservation AdvisoryBoard for their letter this past summer to the City Commission regarding the proposed Guthrie
development and how it measures up to the regulations of the NCOD and historic properties.
Acting in their advisory capacity, they helped inform City Commissioners about provisionsand policies the City uses to manage change (not prevent it) in the historic core neighborhoods
of Bozeman. As a city we are very fortunate to have such dedicated, hard working, thorough,expert volunteers serving on this board!
I want to thank them additionally for their dialog at the December 18th board meeting. I look
forward to reading and learning from their expertise in the forthcoming letter they moved towrite to the Commission regarding the second Guthrie application.
While I believe they as a board were underutilized during the Landmark Program engagement
this past summer (having been given no official duties) I value so much their input on whatneeds to be updated in our code so that we can adequately protect what is special about this
place we call home in the face of intense speculative redevelopment pressure in historicneighborhoods.
Thank you board members for all your work so far on the Landmark program and for your
continued service as we rewrite Historic Preservation in Bozeman! Thank you for powerfullyadvocating for your involvement in the UDC rewrite! All aspects of code, when applied to
historic neighborhoods, are within your purview and I hope you continue to weigh in onthe updates. Your voice has great value to so many of us!
Happy Holidays!
Alison B. SweeneyBernadette's Handmade JewelryBozeman MT406-404-5740alison-bernadettes.com