HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-11-26 Public Comment - M. Osman - Commissioner Sweeney's slideshow From: Mary Lou Osman
To: Bozeman Public Comment
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Commissioner Sweeney"s slideshow
Date: Monday,May 11,2026 8:03:24 AM
Attachments: How to CRUSH a Neiahborhood.pdf
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To City Staff, Mayor, Deputy Mayor and Commissioners, and to the Lakota Group and the
Community Planning Collaborative: The link below is for a slideshow that Commissioner
Sweeney made for the Midtown neighborhood group. She is happy to share it. The residents
of Bozeman all know that our town is growing and we support growth that does not destroy
what we love. Midtown residents can walk to 700 new or approved housing units that none of
them has opposed, unlike the Guthrie. We know that the build big downtown vs. sprawl myth
is pointless, because Montana has no laws to limit sprawl.
Joni Mitchell warned us:
Don't it always seem to go
That you don't know what you've got
Till it's gone.
They paved paradise
And put up a parking lot.
Keep hope alive, Mary Lou Osman. Please open the attachment below.
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Zonin
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• we now have form based coda (commercial everywhere but
R-A, so zoning is more about mass and scale now, not use)
Additional Policy
• demolition regulation
• Landmark program
• Design guidelines that are enforceable
• Prevent parcel assembly would help
Vision, courage, and staffing
• We have to want it
• Rewrite our growth policy with a chapter on Heritage
Conservation that explains withi.ntrification and values of our
history, natural environment, character, and sense of place
• Updated architectural inventory surveys (what's historic?)
* A full-time Historic Preservation officer with the Secretary of
the Interior's Professional Qualifications who sits on the
Design Review Committee)