HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-15-25 Public Comment - M. Bateson - Project 24147 Parking Mess for Boutique HotelFrom:Mary Bateson
To:Bozeman Public Comment; Terry Cunningham; Joey Morrison; Jennifer Madgic; Douglas Fischer; Emma Bode;Chuck Winn; Greg Sullivan; Nicholas Ross; Candace Mastel; Nicholas Focken
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Project 24147 Parking Mess for Boutique Hotel
Date:Sunday, April 13, 2025 1:30:45 PM
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Re: Project 24147 Parking Mess for Boutique Hotel
Date: April 13, 2025
To: Bozeman City Commission, City Manager, City Attorney, Transportation and Engineering
and Community Development Departments.
Below is an image copied from Bozeman's Community Development Viewer.
https://gisweb.bozeman.net/Html5Viewer/?viewer=planning
The location of Project 24147 Boutique Hotel is shaded green. The parking lot to the east is
the proposed location for parking for this new development. See anything funny about this
picture? I DO. I laugh when I see there are only two available spaces in the lot. The lot is >
95% full. So, are the ~46 spaces being claimed by this development “available”? What
happens to people already using these spaces in order that they may visit businesses in the
area? This seems a HOT MESS in the making. The question is: Can Peterson Holdings of
Seattle Washington give the parking spaces currently used to this new development? As a
Bozeman taxpayer, I do not want to be paying for the litigation that will occur if this project
is approved with no account for the parking situation.
There was a Parking analysis done for this project conducted by 406 Traffic & Transportation
Consulting, but they only studied the parking utilization on Mendenhall Street. This study was
conducted in October 2024, the shoulder season, not summer tourist season, not ski season.
It concluded, “The PM period utilization shown by this study is higher than the 85% level,
which indicates that some form of action could be warranted to improve parkingconditions even without the proposed hotel project.” EVEN WITHOUT THE HOTEL PROJECT.
Please don’t make a bad situation worse!
Thank you for your attention.
With Respect, Mary Bateson, Bozeman Resident