In response to this.

It’s really sad that City Attorney Greg Sullivan doesn’t have anything better to do than harass a private citizen for rebuilding a structure on his own property.  A new and improved structure, which looks just like the old one, which will rake in more tax dollars to pay more government loafers to continue to harass us.  Where is the City when a structure approved by all their red tape fails?  They are nowhere, it’s your problem.  Where is the concern for history as acres of solar panels are plastered about, or when post-modern lego constructs are stuck in historic districts?  They are counting the money.   But we all know it’s not about the final product on the ground, it’s about the City flexing it’s muscles.  They have gotten so enamored with their own power and enforcing the excruciating minutia of their own codes, that they forgot what the law is there for.  Government should be mediating disputes when there are actual disputes.  They should be protecting persons and property, not causing more disputes and stealing our time and money to pay idol lawyers.

Remember that most of the truly historic prizes around Bozeman, were destroyed by the City itself.  Starting with historic City Hall and Opera House, which became a glorious faded mural and vagrant urinal.  Or the Story mansion destroyed for the playground of Willson School.   Or all the other neo-Classical schools, now concrete slabs. Or how about the other Story Mansion, which sits across the street as I type, decaying and costing us a fortune? Down to the two story destroyed next to city hall a matter of months ago.   Homeowner Brian Martin is building, while the city is tearing down.  They tear down the sanctity of private property and the soul of our honest Republic.