HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-28-25 Public Comment - P. Holland - Vote NO on the AHO!From:Patrick Holland
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Vote NO on the AHO!
Date:Saturday, January 25, 2025 8:06:13 PM
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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 totake 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 infrastructurecan be properly sized to accommodate the impacts of this much density. >Enlist creative
solutions like an Affordable Housing Overlay Zone (AHOZ) and incentives to localhomeowners 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 ofWater 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 thanwelcome to build all the unaffordable housing they want. If they want our water, they build
affordable housing. This is legal! Thank you, Patrick Holland, MD