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April 3, 2016
City of Bozeman
Dept of Community Development
P.O. Box 1230
Bozeman, MT 59771-1230
Re: Pine Meadows Major Subdivision Preliminary Plat Application
Number 16041
Dear Planning Board and City Commissioners:
Thank you for allowing us the privilege of commenting on the new Pine Meadows
Subdivision formally known since 1967 at the Zoning District Smith Subdivision.
We received the Staff report on March 31 after 5 P.M. What a very short notice to
respond to this life changing subdivision.
On Page 26 #38.41.060.A.15 Land Use
Total front footage on Valley Dr is 1295 plus or minus sidewalk. 1295.00'
Mr. Horner is taking 210.46' - 210.46'
City of Bozeman Parkland - 120.79'
City of Bozeman Retention pond - 30.00'
W. Villard Street - 60.00'
Total footage for 17 lots 873.75
Mr. Homer's lot will be 33956 sq ft. The average for the 17 lots will be 6,698 sq ft.
His lot will be 5 times larger than the other 17. The total acreage for the 17 lots is
2.67 acres or an average of 6.1 houses per acre as compared to 2 houses per acre on
the west side of Valley Dr.
The 17 additional lots in Pine Meadows are a 212% increase of high density houses
in our Smith Subdivision. 17 lots is an increase of 81% of all the 21 houses on
Valley Dr.
As to paving Valley Dr., traffic will increase a thousand fold. 17 new houses with
minimum of 2 cars each plus the race thru pass thru traffic from New Holland,
Durston, W. Villard, and Babcock. If the speed limit is 25 mph, you can bet the cars
will try for 40 mph.
Page 2 Plat# 16041 Pine Meadows Subdivision
The issue of storm water and contaminants from the east side of Valley Dr. flowing
down the west side of Valley Dr. needs to be addressed. If this water floods down
our driveways, yards, or into our crawl spaces or daylight basements, you need to
fix the problem, you created it.
There has been no cooperation, no consideration, and no compromise with the
residents who have lived on Valley Dr., some more than 40 years. We chose Valley
Dr. in 1984 to build a home for our young family. We chose Valley Dr., because of
the location and covenants that are sacrosanct. In Montana the covenants follow
the land.
Mr. Horner has misinformed us throughout the process by saying W. Villard would
not go through to Valley Dr, and telling us we had to annex to Bozeman. He wants
us to help pay for his development even though he is destroying our neighborhood.
Your Planning and Development department and other city departments involved
have never made an effort to consider our covenants. You want $70,000 from each
of us to help pay for new sewer and water mains, and maybe a snowplow job once a
year. Mr. Homer's alternative plan to pay $43,000 in return for a paved road is
insulting to our intelligence.
Bozeman and Mr. Horner are destroying the beauty and harmony of our Smith
Subdivision. The City of Bozeman has destroyed what at one time was a beautiful,
gracious, friendly town. Bozeman has become over crowded, over priced, overly
ugly. Bozeman's paradise is lost forever with the city's Agenda 21 ideology.
You shall reap what you have sown.
Regards,
Carolyn and Sam Powell
315 Valley Dr.
Bozeman, Mt 59718