I mean the deadline is September, but it's not that hard.

I don't know why they would have done that that way, but I think that's a good idea.

How's it going?

So order.

Any uh disclosures.

Any public comment that's not on the agenda.

Oh, the changes to the agenda?

Are there any changes to the agenda?

There are not.

I'll do a roll call that ends us in that bar.

Elena and Julian.

Hi.

Eric Nelson.

Hi.

Mark Kiki.

Hi.

Great.

Passes 4-0.

All right.

So public comment for non-agenda items falling within the purview of the jurisdiction of the board.

Seeing none, we'll move to action items.

We have a work session and possible recommendations related to the maximum building height.

Thank you for being here today.

You're welcome.

Glad to be with you this afternoon.

So just a quick bit of background on this.

Some of this stuff dives into some technicalities that not everybody deals with every day.

And so I was felt like it would be beneficial to help folks understand it.

So the commission's going to look at kind of four questions related to two topics.

One's relating to the building heights, and then the other is relating to zone edge transitions, and I'll describe both of those a little more as we go along.

So just for connection, and there are requirements in the law the city has to follow when we do any kind of regulation.

One of those is we need to be consistent with our land use planning documents that have gone through the adoption process.

We have two that are particularly relevant to this particular topic set.

One is the Bozeman Community Plan and then the downtown improvement plan.

There's some additional uh details on that in the memo that was attached to the um uh the agenda item.

But uh both of them talk about encouraging uh further development in the downtown area, uh but also recognizing the relationship between um adjacent properties and looking at how to help that work well.

So uh as part of the Unified Development Code update that was completed last uh winter, uh the City Commission and Community Development Board held six different work sessions and hearings where folks were able to weigh in, a variety of different conversations were held.

Um there was a lot of conversation um on the June 24th.

I think that meeting ran about six and a half hours long.

And so there was a lot of opportunity to talk about not just transitions, not just building height, but all of the pieces and parts that kind of help shape this question of uh of mass and scale.

So these are some of the tools that we have in the unified development code to address these issues.

Some of them uh regulate the land, some of them regulate the buildings, uh, some of them regulate the right of way, all of them interact with each other and shape how people experience a building as they're um adjacent to it, walking past it, however they're they're experiencing it.

And um as you can imagine, the the nuance level is very high.

Um, and I am not going to even attempt to try and cover all of that with you today, but we will try to talk about some of the pieces and parts to help you understand how they all fit together.

There's also uh some other tools that city has which uh are are handy.

Um see if I can get this to work right.

So the sandborne maps are a resource.

Uh Sanborn was an insurance company support, and they uh mapped thousands of communities across the country.

And uh let's see, close that uh so you can look and see what was in place at uh different points in time.

Um so if we come, for example, down the road here, you can see on the 1890 map or 1884 map.

We've got a variety of buildings located here, and then if we move ahead in time a little bit.

So there's been this evolution of uh events over time, and this is one of the tools that helps us to uh understand what those those events are, how they interacted with our community.

There's also some other options that are out there.

This is using information from what's called Esri or Science Research Institute.

There.

One of the things that helps me in this area, for example, this is the federal building.

It has a certain height, but it also has a length and width as it relates to the land on which it's sitting.

And so based on a typical block length and width, the maximum height at 90 feet is usually less than a third of that length and width.

So just kind of helping to think about the dimensions that apply.

And then on the city's community development viewer, there is a very large amount of information, including our zoning districts.