HomeMy WebLinkAbout05-18-16 Skinger, Midtown Rezoning, Public CommentDear Bozeman City Commission Members at Wednesday 5/18/16 meeting or thereafter:
I hope the City Commission will take up the following suggestion soon, because the R-5
High Density Residential Zone is not OK for the areas you have approved it for, nor in my
opinion in any other place anywhere. Future 4-storey densely located single family homes will ruin one of America's best small
city mountain views, now viewable by MANY using cars and bicycles, also pedestrians, bus line
users, park areas, senior retirement housing and a few other homes.
View corridors/view sheds are stated in several places in the Bozeman Community Plan as
something the people of the Bozeman community (and the City) wish to protect. We need the City to respect and work with this now, because ruining it is simply an affront to prior planning
and the facts of life in this beautiful scenic location in the state of Montana.
None of the R-5 areas remaining in the North 7th Avenue/Midtown Plan at this time are
appropriate. The open space to the west and east of the north end of North 7th need to be
retained, as I say above. The piece on North 5th that remains is across from a church, on a short block, would be replacing a nursing home and an apartment building. It is in a quiet, not very
dense, single family area other than these and the nearby elementary school on North 5th. The
other remaining piece, on North 6th, would end up being ON North 7th Avenue, replacing the
grave stone store and the old oil change service business. Worse than this, it would be next to an
elementary school recess yard, and the school building. Whatever you need to do, please rescind the creation of a new residential zone for Bozeman
- R-5. Frankly, from a quick check of the Internet, it looks like this kind of density has
previously been considered unacceptable, unhealthy, for children and other living things.
I should write for you a report about my other concern - that telebehavioral control support,
electro hydro dynamic generation of power, various other things private investors can do with the power of the Internet,all for financial profit, are part of the reason this dense zone has been
proposed. I think the following statement Bozeman Community Plan, on page 13-3, could be
considered at this time, and we could do a special planning study on concerns about secondary
markets in utilities:
Goal D2: Recognize and strive to address both chronic as well
as acute hazards and the effect of cumulative actions on increasing
and decreasing hazards. Some can be inconspicuous and ...recognized
only after longer term evaluation
Sincerely, Erica A. Skinger