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Subject:[EXTERNAL]Comments on Fowler extension
Date:Friday, August 1, 2025 10:50:53 AM
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We are homeowners on Caterpillar street in Bozeman. It is our home. I am
disappointed that the City is considering three-story and four-story homes
right across the intersection 3 houses away from me. I have several comments.
1. There should be a setback green belt between the Harvest Creek
subdivision and a subdivision with a totally different character.
2. I have serious concerns about the traffic on Caterpillar if there is an
intersection leading into this extension. At the present time, I notice a
large amount of traffic coming east on Oak, turning into New Holland,
then east again on Caterpillar to access Springbrook and Durston beyond.
Speed averages 35 miles an hour. To dump traffic from this extension into
Harvest Creek is very unacceptable. Children are riding scooters, paying
soccer, bike riding and walking with their pets. They frequently use the
streets in winter as the snow is plowed smooth there. They avoid the
uneven pavers on the sidewalks which can be hazardous.
3. There is no road buffer between this subdivision and Harvest Creek. This is
unacceptable. Those residents need a straight shot in and out of the
extension and not weave through another neighborhood. This goes to the
greenbelt idea.
4. Muti-story buildings are backing right up to single family homes. This is
uncharacteristic of other neighborhoods where a single family home
subdivision is butted up against multistory homes within 20-25 feet.
There goes the property values in Harvest Creek, and your tax revenue.
5. Privacy fences are useless as 4 story residences will peer right into
windows and yards.
6. These are likely to be rental properties. There is a whole set of negative
repercussions for neighbors of renters. There is no permanence to that
neighborhood. Crime, noise, night-time disturbance are all issues.
7. The density in this extension is totally unrealistic. You have packed units in
to a very small space . There is insufficient parking in the extension which
will flow into Harvest Creek. Inability to property snow plow our streets in
Harvest Creek will result.
8. Your process stinks. Everyone has known of the Fowler extension for
years. Why is it that you are rushing to slap up extremely high density
housing all of a sudden with no prior planning, notice, discussion, sitting
down with Harvest Creek to make acceptable modifications as you
develop your planning. This is an open disregard to the neighborhood of
Harvest Creek. It’s a very large subdivision, and we deserve more input
and some yielding here on this plan. Did homeowners, when they
purchased their homes in Harvest Creek, have any clue we would be
sandwiched against a multistory crowded complex?
9. The amount of green space in this extension is ridiculously low. Every
other subdivision in the area has plenty of green space, and its not lawns
on townhomes. It’s a park.
I am totally furious that your zeal for multi-unit townhomes has gone this far,
that you are destroying older single family homes for the sake of prioritizing
high-density housing. Bozeman used to be a great place to but a middle class
single family home. No More. You have gone off the rails with multiple story
high density housing. Put it in appropriate neighborhoods, not established
single family home neighborhood.
Mary VanFleet, 3165 Caterpillar Sr