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City of Bozeman
Community Affordable Housing Advisory Board (CAHAB)
Work Session Minutes
January 6, 2011
12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
HRDC Conference Room
Attending:
Mary Martin (Community Representative), Jan Bergman (Community Representative), Dave
Magistrelli (Community Representative), Carson Taylor (City Commissioner)
Absent (excused):
Brian LaMeres (City of Bozeman Finance Department), Daniel Simonich (Community
Representative), Kris Keller (Community Representative) (comments from Ms. Keller received
via e-main in advance of meeting due to her scheduled absence)
Staff :
Tracy Menuez (HRDC), Tim McHarg (City Planning Department)
Public:
None
At this work session, the board continued their discussions from previous meetings regarding the
amendment process for workforce housing. Kris’s comments (received via e-mail in anticipation
of her absence) were shared with the group. Board members commented on the overriding
principals and list of recommendations to be provided. It was decided that the list would be given
to Commissioner Taylor to be used to facilitate his discussions regarding the ordinance during
the Commission’s annual goals/priorities session.
Mary commented that we need units, not lots, to which Jan agreed. She asked if the goal was to
promote density, which would impact the structure of the ordinance. She also felt that it was
important to develop mechanisms to develop down-payment programs that could fill market
demand.
Tracy mentioned that HRDC will be making recommendations as well.
Tim asked if we wanted to keep with the current emphasis on 25% detached units, which are
very difficult to develop affordably. He also commented that a recommendation should be retool
the ordinance to remove the specific administrative functions from the language and place them
in an administrative manual. This would provide more flexibility to staff.
Carson advised that the commission, when reviewing proposed changes, needs to see what the
change is connected to and why it is necessary. The current ordinance creates predictability and
certainty to a fault, recommendations to amend the ordinance should address why the current
system is ineffective. He stated that changes need to be connected to the overarching goals of the
ordinance.
Further discussion regarding the goal of the ordinance and necessary changes was conducted.
The board requested that staff write up a synopsis of the board’s recommendations to be
reviewed at the next meeting.
With no further discussion, the work session was ended.