HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-28-25 Public Comment - E. Schumann - Vote NO on the AHO!From:Errol Schumann
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Vote NO on the AHO!
Date:Monday, January 27, 2025 9:04:23 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 coreneighborhoods 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 tobuild all the unaffordable housing they want. If they want our water, they build
affordable housing. This is legal! Thank you,