HomeMy WebLinkAbout03-31-26 Public Comment - G. Prahasto - Comment on Downtown Parking From: Genevieve Prahasto
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Date: Thursday, March 26,2026 1:19:51 PM
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From: Genevieve Prahasto <prahastokg@amail.com>
Date: Thu, Mar 26, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Subject: Public Comment on Downtown Parking
To: <comments@bozemanmt.go>
Dear Bozeman City Council and Planning & Zoning
Parking has been well-and-truly messed-up downtown! As a lifelong resident with
a home and business in the downtown business district, I paid for on-street parking
for my business. Now, with condos, construction, apartments, businesses in
residential areas: those parking spaces I paid for are taken by 7:30 AM! Having
allowed housing without required parking on-site, a whole parking debacle has been
strained-and-stretched: with no end in sight. Common sense: not dollars: would
have curbed this daily stressor long ago.
A proposal was suggested some time ago to build a parking garage behind the
Gallatin County Courthouse. What has happened with that? Why is it not
progressing? (Not that that will help people who live downtown in apartments
above stores on Main Street...Which has always been a problem...)
Perhaps an agreement with churches--parking-permit-required--residents could
utilize one space on weekdays? Or have a park-and-ride-- utilizing parking at the
mall or other shopping center areas; negotiate some-kind of mutually beneficial use
agreement.
Sincerely,
James Savage
103 N. Grand
Bozeman, MT