HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-28-25 Public Comment - D. De Bode - Reject the proposed AHOFrom:Debra De Bode
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Reject the proposed AHO
Date:Sunday, January 26, 2025 5:23:19 PM
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Hello Commissioners:
I agree entirely with and support the three point plan suggested by the Better Bozeman
Coalition and copied below. We have been going in the wrong direction as a community withregard to housing - what is being built is NOT what is needed. The vacant luxury condos being
built in the city core aren't helping anyone, and they are ruining established and cherishedneighborhoods. Trading public funds and water rights for a paltry amount of somewhat more
affordable housing is not a good deal for our community.
I'm writing to ask you to vote NO on the draft AHO this Tuesday, and work to repeal thecurrent 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 beproperly 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 characterand 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 buildaffordable housing. This is legal!
Thank you,
Debra De Bode
527 N Montana AveBozeman