HomeMy WebLinkAbout10-20-25 Public Comment - M. Jackson - Letter to Community Dev. BdFrom:Myriam Jackson
To:Bozeman Public Comment
Cc:Jim Goetz
Subject:[EXTERNAL]Letter to Community Dev. Bd.
Date:Monday, October 20, 2025 3:03:26 PM
Attachments:2025-10-20 Goetz - City.pdf
CAUTION: This email originated from outside of the organization. Do not click links or open attachments unless you
recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
Good afternoon,
Please direct this letter from Jim Goetz to the Community Development Board. Thank you. Best,Myriam
Myriam JacksonLegal Assistant Goetz, Geddes & Gardner, P.C.35 North Grand | P.O. Box 6580Bozeman, MT 59771-6580T: (406) 587.0618 | F: (406) 587.5144
NOTICE: This electronic mail transmission may contain confidential or Attorney-Client privilegedcommunications. It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any unauthorized persons. Ifyou have received this electronic mail transmission in error, please delete it from your system
without copying it and notify the sender by reply e-mail.
October 20, 2025
Via Email Only
City of Bozeman
Attn: Community Development Board
comments@bozeman.net
Dear Members of the Board:
I have just been informed of a proposal by member Delmue to water down the
requirements for the newly-proposed RA zone. To this point, for two years, our neighborhood
and other Bozeman neighborhoods have been fighting for reasonably low density in traditional
neighborhoods. I feel that the compromise solution already reached, which has been the subject
of numerous hearings, is a reasonable compromise. It is not perfect, but we have been able to
come together with the City on this. Essentially, it allows duplexes by right (which is, in any
event, now required by State law) and the erection of an accessory dwelling unit. Now, one
commissioner is attempting to persuade you to recommend an expansion to four units by right.
The member who sponsors this motion is a developer, who, in my opinion, should not
serve on the Community Development Board, or at least he should not be allowed to vote on this
issue. He is attempting to feather his own nest. Over the last two years, there has been a serious
erosion of trust on the part of the public, and the present eleventh-hour motion only feeds that
distrust. Whatever happened to the strict ethics code of the City of Bozeman and the tradition of
careful avoidance of even the appearance of conflict?
Please reject this last-ditch self-serving effort to erode the integrity of the UDC.
Sincerely,
___________________________
James H. Goetz