HomeMy WebLinkAbout01-28-25 Public Comment - P. Oliver - Vote NO on the AHO!From:Pete Oliver
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Vote NO on the AHO!
Date:Friday, January 24, 2025 12:32:51 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 to take these steps to get our community out ofThe 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 tolocal 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 WaterRights 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,
Pete Oliver413 N Wallace