[Vision2020] Alturas

[bill london]

D-
I was hoping that Barbara Crouch or BJ Swanson or someone with more 
uptodate info would respond to your question, but in the meantime.....
I believe the list of businesses that moved from downtown to Alturas 
would include:
Walker (attorney office)
Mann and Stanke (accountants)
Andrea Beckett  (accountants)
Just Like Home (daycare)
there are other tenants of Park Place Plaza, but I do not know if they 
moved from town.
BL

Dan Carscallen wrote:

>I'd like to see the list of businesses that have moved from downtown to
>Alturas, just for curiosity's sake
>
>DC
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: vision2020-admin@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-admin@moscow.com]
>On Behalf Of bill london
>Sent: Thursday, November 06, 2003 8:36 AM
>To: joann mack; steve busch; jack hill; jon; mtethoma; mcomstock; Peg
>Hamlett; linda pall; John Dickinson; nancy Chaney
>Cc: Vision2020
>Subject: [Vision2020] Alturas
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>
>    The government is meddling in private business again.  The City 
>Council of Moscow is undermining the free market by creating a 
>tax-supported office park that will drain professional offices and other
>
>businesses from downtown. 
>    Now is the time for any local businessperson who owns rental 
>property downtown or any Moscow resident who pays taxes to contact the 
>Council and demand that the city get out of the office park business. 
>    This should be a wake-up call to anyone who believes in the free 
>enterprise system.  It's time to stop the gradual erosion of Alturas 
>from a high-tech job creation  business park into a tax-supported office
>
>mall.
>    The City Council has (again) ignored the recommendations of the city
>
>planning and zoning commission.  The Council has voted to expand the 
>language in the zoning requirements to allow virtually any business or 
>professional office into Alturas.  The planning and zoning commission 
>wrote the requirements to allow professional offices that "support" 
>high-tech businesses into Alturas.  Now, the Council voted to broaden 
>that requirement to allow offices that "could support" 
>high-tech--essentially, making it possible for anyone to get into
>Alturas.
>    Whenever a business moves from downtown into Alturas, we lose in 
>many ways.  The downtown property owners lose a renter.  The original 
>mission of Alturas is corrupted, since there is no job creation involved
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>in shifting a job from downtown to Alturas.  The taxpayers will have to 
>pay more to expand Alturas if it fills with accountants and lawyers and 
>an actual high-tech business wants to move there.  The move contributes 
>to the sprawling growth of town into the wheat fields. 
>    The Council is planning on discussing this change to the zoning 
>requirements at the November 17 meeting.  Perhaps there is still time to
>
>contact the Council members and suggest that they reconsider this 
>blatant attack on the free enterprise system.
>BL
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