HomeMy WebLinkAbout06-12-25 Public Comment - A. Sweeney - HPAB agenda for June meetingFrom:Alison Sweeney
To:Bozeman Public Comment; Sarah Rosenberg
Subject:[EXTERNAL]HPAB agenda for June meeting
Date:Thursday, June 12, 2025 10:01:51 AM
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Hello Historic Preservation officer and advisory board,
I wanted to ask that room please be made on the agenda for the June meeting for two topics
related to the City Commission's work. Could the board please discuss these and make arecommendation to the Commission before their June 24th work session on the UDC update.
NCOD Moratorium
At the June 3rd City Commission work session on the UDC update Commissioner Madgicsuggested that the City implement a 6 month moratorium on large developments within the
NCOD. This temporary moratorium is allowed under state law and would only apply tobuildings over 35,000 sq. ft. This moratorium would serve the following purposes:
1. It will show the community that the Commission and Community DevelopmentDepartment are sympathetic to their anxiety about redevelopment. It will show
people that the City is listening to them.2. It will give us time to craft tools that regulate mass and scale of development in our
core neighborhoods, that are the gem of our small city. Things like parcel assemblyfor example.
3. It will give us time to discuss as a community changes in state law that will affect ourability to regulate development in B-2M and the B-3 zones.
4. It will give us time to adjust the zoning map to make sure it aligns with residentsdesires.
5. It shows we can learn from our mistakes. Leaving the first version of the AHO on thetable while it was being rewritten was a mistake. It allowed for the Guthrie version 2
to slip in without the greater affordability required under the revised AHO. Thatentire project is an abomination on many levels, but the lack of affordability is
probably the biggest gut-punch in the whole package! Let's not make the samemistake with the UDC.
Please include time (and maybe even an agenda item) to allow for board discussion andrecommendation on a temporary moratorium in the NCOD.
Neighborhood Rezoning Proposals
Two neighborhoods have come forth at the invitation of the Director of CommunityDevelopment with rezoning proposals to be included in the UDC update. Bon Ton Rezoning
Proposal and Centennial Park Neighborhood Conservation in Action proposals have eachreceived over 70 public comments in support. These are grassroots efforts that took months of
volunteer time from residents of these neighborhoods reaching out to educate each other andcreate proposals to the city for different zoning. They have crafted their proposals around
state law requirements and Bozeman's Growth Policy. These applications for different zoningare not the same as developer initiated requests also received by the City as part of the UDC
update.
Commissioner Bode expressed interest at a commission meeting in having the HPAB weigh inon these proposals and how the city should handle them.
Please include time (and maybe even an agenda item) to allow for board discussion of these
proposals and a recommendation to the City Commission that supports these neighborhoodsnot being required to go through the full ZMA process, but being considered as part of the
UDC update itself.
View Centennial's proposal here.View the Bon Ton's proposal here.
Thank you so much for considering these additions to the agenda for the June HPAB meeting.
Alison B. Sweeney
Bernadette's Handmade JewelryBozeman MT
406-404-5740alison-bernadettes.com