HomeMy WebLinkAbout08-23-2026 Public Comment - M. Bateson - Fix B-3 and zone edge transitions! From: Mary Bateson
To: Bozeman Public Comment
Subject: [EXTERNAL]Fix B-3 and zone edge transitions!
Date: Sunday,August 23,2026 8:25:07 PM
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Dear City Commission,
I wish I could join in person on Tuesday August 25 for your meeting, but I will not be able.
Please recall that this issue is one I have previously written and spoken about. I hope you
consider what I and many others are saying:
Thank you for having a work session on B-3 height and Zone Edge Transitions. This is your
chance to reduce the max height of B-3 from 90 to 70 feet and address how easy it is to get out
of building a transition.
DITCH THE LOOPHOLE! Do not let new developments barely meet the 60 ft right-of-way
(ROW)threshold to get out of doing a transition by ceding a small strip of land to count
towards the ROW. It doesn't matter how good our transitions in code are if everybody can get
out of doing a transition!
If the commission is unwilling to consider reducing the max height in B-3, please consider as
a compromise:
-Requiring a larger ROW transition for taller buildings--if a building can be up to 90 ft tall, the
ROW should be at least 90 ft wide in order to count as a transition, otherwise they build a
transition.
-Requiring stepbacks for ALL tall buildings in B-3--not just at transitions--like the Downtown
Bozeman Improvement Plan suggested.
-Requiring transitions to R-A and R-B to stepback at max plate height, not max heights for
those zones.
Thank you,
Mary Bateson, Bozeman resident