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REPORT TO: Honorable Mayor and City Commission
FROM: Allyson C. Bristor, Associate Planner
Chris Saunders, Interim Planning Director
Chris Kukulski, City Manager
SUBJECT: General Willson Building Site Plan/Certificate of Appropriateness
Application – #Z-09235
MEETING DATE: February 1, 2010
AGENDA ITEM TYPE: Action Item.
RECOMMENDATION: City Staff requests the General Willson Site Plan/Certificate of
Appropriateness application (#Z-09235) to be opened and continued to the City Commission’s
public hearing date of February 8, 2010. The request is to allow time for City Staff to begin a
policy discussion with the City Commission about the concept of substantial, long-term
encroachment into public right-of-way.
BACKGROUND: Property owner and applicant Delaney & Co., Inc. submitted a Site
Plan/Certificate of Appropriateness (COA) application to the Department of Planning in
December 2009. The application is requesting approval of the following exterior alterations to,
and adjacent to, the property addressed at 101 East Main Street: 1) expansion of the pedestrian
sidewalk into City right-of-way to accommodate a restaurant outdoor seating area, 2) elimination
of on-street parking on the east side of North Black Avenue, 3) addition of sidewalk/boulevard
trees and lights in the expanded sidewalk, 4) addition of a partial awning/canopy over the
outdoor seating area, and 5) addition of a doorway on the building’s west elevation.
The Development Review Committee reviewed the application for three weeks. The Bozeman
Parking Commission reviewed the application at their regular public meeting on January 14,
2010 and at their special public meeting on January 20, 2010.
FISCAL EFFECTS: A Site Plan and Certificate of Appropriateness application fee was
submitted by the applicant and processed as revenue to the Department of Planning and
Community Development.
ALTERNATIVES: As suggested by the City Commission.
Attachments: None
Report compiled on: January 27, 2010
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