HomeMy WebLinkAbout04-21-25 Public Comment - P. McGown - Project 23185, Hotel Bozeman, must be re-noticed!From:Patty McGown
To:Bozeman Public Comment; Erin George; Chuck Winn
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Project 23185, Hotel Bozeman, must be re-noticed!
Date:Sunday, April 20, 2025 8:42:15 PM
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Director of Community Development, Mayor, Deputy Mayor, and Commissioners,
What is going on? This action appears to indicate the city may have already made up its mind
about this development. Actions speak louder than words.
Project 23185, Hotel Bozeman, must be re-noticed!!!Why?? Because the “documents file” in the community development viewer did NOT contain
any documents until April 18th.
The start date for public review was March 31, 2025. That’s an 18 day delay before putting theimportant and mandatory documents online so the public has something to read for due
process.
What the city planners have done by, what appears to be blatantly NOT making the documentsavailable until only 4 days before the end of public comment, is indicate, behaviorally, that
this project may have already been rubber stamped. It appears that the city is just going thruthe motions of representing residents, the “public” in this case, the people who actually care
about Bozeman, and who vote and pay taxes.
The honest truth is: Documents should have been available to the public since the beginning ofthe noticing period on March 31st, 2025.
And for the life of me, I wonder why the city is behaving this way?
Not making the documents available gives the public only 4 days to review all the documents
associated with the development. Not only is this insufficient time to complete a detailedexamination of all the documents, it is a violation of our municipal code!!!
This action is a VIOLATION of our Montana constitutional right to meaningful participation.
And the “public” is pissed off about this. How can I trust any of you when you look me in theeye at those meetings and tell me you are listening to me. You are not listening to me or other
residents. You are listening to developers. This is another example of residents losing trust inthe city. This is an example of what appears to be the city showing favoritism to developers.
This is an example of the residents being cheated out of their time to comment ondevelopment projects.
This is wrong!!!
As a property tax paying and voting resident, I demand that the city “Re-notice project 23185,Hotel Bozeman”.
Thank you,
Patty McGown222 S 13th Ave
Jandt Neighborhood