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From:Amy Hogen
To:Agenda
Subject:FAC Project
Date:Tuesday, July 12, 2022 7:51:44 PM
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I am writing to let you know I oppose the size of the FAC project based on the following
information from the option piece in the Bozeman Chronicle copied below.
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Letter tothe editor: Fowler Avenue Connection project badfor Bozeman
Daniel Carty
Jul 10, 2022
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I am writing to ask Bozeman residents to oppose the city’s Fowler
Ave Connection (FAC) road project. In part, the FAC is a plan to
extend Fowler Ave from Oak Street to Babcock Street by building a
5-lane or 3-lane paved road system through what is largely a
greenspace corridor. The Oak Street-to-Babcock Street greenspace
corridor is a subsection of Bozeman’s 122-year-old (circa 1900)
Section Line Ditch Corridor (SLDC), which over 20 years ago was
found to be ecologically important to native Montana plants (e.g.,
cottonwood trees) and wildlife (e.g., migratory birds).
The ecological importance of the SLDC was documented in a 2001
study titled Habitat and Wetland Assessment: Section Line Ditch
Corridor, Bozeman, MT
(https://weblink.bozeman.net/WebLink/DocView.aspx?
id=262180&dbid=0&repo=BOZEMAN). The study was
published by a Bozeman-based environmental consulting firm, with
a cover letter written by a Bozeman-based ecology professor.
I support a smaller project of a 2 lane road instead
Thank you,
Amy Hogen