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Home My WebLink About02-06-15 Koller Wallace Building public comment February 2°a, 2015 t�E�B $2015 City of Bozeman Department of Community Development DEI'ARTME�'%'f OF P.O. Box 1230 COMMUNITY DEVELOP` Bozeman, Montana 59771-1230 Re: Wallace Building CUP Z14395 To Whom It May Concern: The purpose of this letter is to request that City of Bozeman do not allow for Wackamoley, LLC to get a Conditional Use Permit for the building located at 624 North Wallace Avenue. As a resident of 626 E Cottonwood I have many concerns with a restaurant that serves alcohol going into the building at 624 N Wallace. The main concerns that I have are related to safety, specifically parking and traffic. Currently there is not adequate parking for any type of restaurant,the building at 624 N Wallace not only does not have any type of parking lot but the street parking is also inadequate for the businesses. While Wackamoley, LLC is not officially the owner of 618 North Wallace they are owned by the same person who owns them under different companies. The attached Gallatin County Tax Record (attachment 1) shows that the same address of the Owner of 618 N Wallace matches that of Wackamoley, LLC. I understand that this application is about a restaurant at 624 N Wallace and not the building at 618 N Wallace it is important to note that they have the same owner and their actions to date must be considered. While 618 N Wallace has a large parking lot the type of business has a fleet of company vehicles,their employee's personal vehicles, along with multiple trailers and containers that are always parked in the lot. The attached picture (attachment 2) was taken at 7:30am and shows many of these vehicles,this picture is only some of the vehicles that are normally parked there as I have seen the lot much fuller. Many of these vehicles are parked in the lot well after 6pm on most days, so these spots would not be available for the restaurant. This lot is shared with the building at 624 N Wallace so if a restaurant is to be put in none of the parking spots in this lot should be considered as usable to employees or customers of the restaurant. Because of the lack of off-street parking spots some of the employees along with all customers have to park on the street. The attached picture (attachment 3)was taken at 7:30am from the corner of Wallace and Cottonwood, you can clearly see that there are already five vehicles parked outside of 618/624 North Wallace. There are not normally vehicles parked there overnight so I assume that they are from employees and/or customers of 618 N Wallace. The mixed- use building that I live in is not currently completely occupied so there are parking spaces available in our lot that employees from nearby businesses use, but once our building is occupied these spaces will not be available and those vehicles will have to park elsewhere only adding to the existing parking shortage. There are already days when we return from work that there are not parking spots for all of the residents of our building and this will only get worse with a restaurant at 624 N Wallace, and I believe that many other residents will have problems with restaurant patrons using parking spots that are currently used by the residents. North Wallace is a fairly narrow street for the number of cars that use it every day, and that number will only increase when the Rouse Expansion Project starts. In the winter the width gets even narrower as many of the houses on North Wallace do not have off-street parking so when the road is plowed at night they can only get a single lane down the center,then there are big ruts left when the cars move that essentially make it a single lane for two way traffic. Allowing a restaurant that will serve alcohol will only add to the number of cars, some of which may be intoxicated causing a safety hazard along with an increased possibility of property damage to cars parked on the street. Also many of the side streets in our neighborhood have unmarked intersections which patrons of the restaurant may not be aware of. While there are many neighborhood in Bozeman that have unmarked intersections I do not know of any that have restaurants located within a block of 2 unmarked intersections like the building at 624 N Wallace. The other safety concern that I have is related to the sidewalks. This winter Wackamoley LLC has done a very poor job of clearing the sidewalks at 624 N Wallace of snow and ice, along with the sidewalks of the building at 618 N Wallace. Also in the three years that I have lived in the neighborhood they have never once cut the bushes back from the sidewalk at 618 N Wallace. On the other hand there are many spots in our neighborhood that do not have any sidewalk so pedestrians have to walk on the streets, even right down Cottonwood St there is no sidewalk on either side of the street and this street is sure to get the majority of the additional traffic from a restaurant. Adding all of the additional cars from a restaurant will significantly increase the likely hood of an accident with a pedestrian on these streets that do not have sidewalks. Like with the unmarked intersections, patrons of the restaurant will not be aware of the fact that there are not sidewalks and that they have to looking for pedestrians walking down the side of street. The other concern I have is noise. While there are many businesses in our neighborhood currently all of them operate primarily during normal daytime business hours (8am-6pm). These businesses normally do not operate or have customers that disturb the peace and quiet of the neighborhood during the evening. If you walk through our neighborhood at 7pm on most nights it is very quiet with minimal traffic, this would not be true if a restaurant is opened at 624 N Wallace. Thank you very much for your time and consideration. SR* l Laurel Koller 626 E Cottonwood 1/28/2015 1'T` �d- -a- CSA iTax r New Search L'd History i- Payoff kw Help Property/Parcel TaxID: RGH21449 Mailing Address: 3919 RAIN ROPER DR Status: Current BOZEMAN, MT 597150632 Receipt: 21449 Levy District: 0350-T2, NEURD TIFD Base 2014 Owner(s): POMEGRANATE LLC 2014 Value 2014 Taxes; 2014 Payments- Market: $282,028 First Half: $2,261.39 Due: 11/30/2014 First Half: $2,321.47 Taxable: $6,966 Second Half: $2,254.78 Due: 5/31/2015 Second Half: $0.00 Total: $4,516.17 Total: $2,321.47 Vet Exempt: $0 Net Taxable: $6,966 (May include penalty &interest) C Detail Detail r 20114 Legal Records. Geo Code: 06-0799-06-4-03-33-0000 Deed Book: 2278 Page: 682D Date: 09/13/2007 Property address: 618 N WALLACE AVE, BOZEMAN MT 59715 Subdivision: (NPB) Northern Pacific Add (Bozeman) Lot: 2 Block: 106 TRS:T02 S, R06 E, Sec. 06 Legal: NORTHERN PACIFIC ADD, S06,T02 S, R06 E, BLOCK 106, Lot 2, REARR COS C-23-L Note: TO OBTAIN PAYMENTS, CLICK ON "HISTORY" Only one search criterion is required (e.g. Parcel # or Owner Name). Entering additional criteria will result in an incomplete search. ATTENTION: For Owner Name Searches, you must search LastName FirstName. Website data last updated 1/27/2015. Payments can be sent to: Gallatin County Treasurer 311 West Main, Room 103 Bozeman, MT 59715 Please direct any questions to: (406)582-3030 or treasurer allatin.mt. ov 1. I http:/fitax.gailatin.mt.gov/detail.aspx?taxid=RGH21449 1/2 I 1� I ' �'r 4 .Y 1 "NON ,�• 4ir sj low_