HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-05-26 Public Comment - D. Uehara - Hanson Lane App 25775 Annexation and Zoning From: Dianne uehara
To: Bozeman Public Comment
Cc: contact(d)harvestcreekmt.org
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Hanson Lane App 25775 Annexation and Zoning
Date: Tuesday,May 5,2026 7:02:53 AM
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To whom it may concern,
I have lived in Falcon Hollow for nearly a decade,and I am asking the City Commission to deny or delay
Application 25775 and direct staff to pursue R-A zoning instead of R-B for the Hanson Lane parcel.
My kids walk Annie Street.That's not an abstraction—that is the route they use to get to Emily Dickinson
Elementary.The City's plan extends Annie Street as a through connection to the Oak Springs Subdivision,and
without installed traffic calming before that connection opens,Annie becomes a cut-through.A roundabout alone is
not enough.Recent experience in Bozeman shows that crosswalks paired with roundabouts are a problem,and the
children who walk that stretch every school day deserve a pedestrian-impact study before the Commission votes,not
after.
On the zoning itself:R-B allows five-story buildings at densities that have no business sitting next to an established
single-family neighborhood.No building within sight of this parcel is taller than two stories.The UDC 2025 R-A
classification was designed for exactly this kind of annexation—it allows a range of housing types while keeping
heights at 40 feet and density at or below 6 units per acre,which matches what is already built along this corridor.
BCP Goal N.1.11 calls for gradual and predictable densification,not a leap from R-1 and R-2 surroundings directly
to R-B intensity.
Deputy Mayor Fischer and City Manager Winn both said in open session on April 14,2026,that no four-or five-
story buildings will go on the adjacent City-owned parcel.The development constraints on both parcels are the
same.The zoning outcome should be the same.
Over 90 neighbors have already submitted comments opposing R-B.The Community Development Board
recommended approval anyway.I am asking the Commission to listen to what this neighborhood is actually telling
you.
Aloha,
Dianne Uehara
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