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HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-28-25 Public Comment - P. McGown - AHO voteFrom:Patty McGown To:Bozeman Public Comment Subject:[EXTERNAL]AHO vote Date:Tuesday, January 28, 2025 10:36:55 AM CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Hello Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and Commissioners, Thanks to Commissioner Madgic for setting up the zoom meeting with C Marohn. I am writing to request that you Repeal the current AHO entirely. The Current AHO ordinance keeps Bozeman in the housing trap according to Charle Marohn from “strong towns”, who recently presented via Zoom to the Bozeman community. The housing trap gets more people to pay more money for housing. This is a trap maintained for banking and government securities where “large developers and centralized financial institutions have t unprecedented sway over what is built and where“. This is happening right here in Bozeman. Tonight, you have the power to reclaim control over this housing trap. Even Bozeman will stay trapped if you pass this AHO, where you are giving my tax dollars for investment housing. I am tired of developers getting Rich and me subsidizing it. According to Mr. Marohn, Bozeman must take some steps to get out This housing trap some ideas include shifting, subsidies away from tax breaks for big developers and toward actual assistance for local homeowners and small scale developers. These subsidies could include grants or low interest loans for constructing ADU’s or what he suggest calling backyard cottages. Another step would be simplify regulations and incentivize local builders. This also promotes shared infrastructure for ADU’s duplexes, etc., which is not feasible for 5 over 1’s. 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! Thank you, Patty McGown