HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-28-25 Public Comment - B. MacFawn - Vote NO on the AHO!From:Beth MacFawn
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Vote NO on the AHO!
Date:Tuesday, January 28, 2025 8:08:34 AM
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Hello Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and Commissioners,
I'm writing to ask you to vote NO on the draft AHO this Tuesday, and work to repeal the current AHO entirely. If
you are unwilling to take these steps to get our community out of The Housing Trap, at least mandate the following
3 point plan:
>Limit the use of this ordinance to greenfield development where infrastructure can be properly sized to
accommodate the impacts of this much density.
>Enlist creative solutions like an Affordable Housing Overlay Zone (AHOZ) and incentives to local homeowners to
create invisible infill in core neighborhoods to protect historical character and NOAH.
>Mandate that developers proposing to use the City’s problematic Cash-In-Lieu of Water Rights provision
(CILWR) provide affordable housing in exchange for the use of our water! A finite and undervalued public
resource. If they bring water rights they are more than welcome to build all the unaffordable housing they want. If
they want our water, they build affordable housing. This is legal!
I own a home within the NCOD and want the character of my neighborhood to be maintained as single or 2-story
homes To allow an additional 1 or 2 stories in this NCOD district would ruin the historic nature of town.
The AHO should be used out in the newer areas of city development, not within the historic neighborhoods of town.
Please vote NO on the draft AHO and work to repeal the current AHO entirely. Please address incentives for
homeowners to build ADU/cottages in their backyard, rather than developers who get subsidies for building while
forever changing the character of historic downtown.
Thank you,
Beth MacFawn