[Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion

[g. crabtree]

This seems wrong on so many levels that I hardly know where to begin. Once 
Mr. Mack became the owner of that property it was within his rights to evict 
the people on it, as he saw fit. It would not have been a matter for P&Z, 
city council, the commissioners, or the justice league of America. What he 
did with it subsequently may have been. It is not up to the first three of 
the aforementioned list to "rubberstamp fairness or equity" (and the last 
doesn't really exist; hate to be the guy that spills the beans.) I do not 
believe that Mr. Mack was looking to design hardship for his tenants, just 
improve his property and perhaps, horror of horrors, make an honest buck. 
The N.S.A. situation is completely a horse of a different color. They own 
their property. They thought they could put it to their intended use. This 
all by itself makes it an apple-orange situation with the trailer court.

I'll stop here as I feel sure that my argument is falling on deaf ears,  but 
will conclude by wondering why so much emotion is spent on the N.S.A. issue. 
It's Christmas, lighten up! Or maybe that's a big part of the problem, also. 
(Your a mean one, Mr...)

G. Crabtree




---- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
To: "'g. crabtree'" <jampot at adelphia.net>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>; "'Joan 
Opyr'" <joanopyr at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, December 11, 2005 5:03 PM
Subject: RE: Re: [Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion


> Mr. Crabtree and Visionaires -
>
> The two situations are analogous in that both cases share hardship, and 
> both
> cases needed City Council's approval. The analogy breaks down, however, at
> one point. In Dan Mack's case, he needed P&Z to grant a variance for his
> proposal and he needed City Council to approve his variance-dependent
> proposal, before he could evict low-income families from his property and
> demolish their homes.
>
> In NSA's case, NSA needs City Council to rewrite the entire Zoning Code as
> it applies to schools in commercial districts (to avoid the appearance of 
> a
> spot zone), and NSA needs City Council to rewrite wholesale sections of 
> the
> Comprehensive Plan (retroactively) to justify the amendment to the Zoning
> Code, in order for NSA to evade eviction.
>
> In short, City Council gave a blind eye and deaf ear to the obvious 
> hardship
> Dan Mack designed for his tenants, and City Council rubberstamped Mack's
> plan without once crying, "What about fairness?" or "What about equity?"
>
> Now, however, certain persons on City Council believe that "fairness" and
> "equity" require them to amend the Zoning Code, so that a three-time
> violator can fill parking spaces reserved for shoppers and consequently 
> put
> his neighbors' businesses at risk.
>
> The moral of this story is that high-profile special-interest groups, 
> whose
> land agent is a County Commissioner and the Executive Director of the
> Chamber of Commerce, have better access to fairness and equity than
> low-income families whose landlord's mother serves on City Council and is 
> a
> big-time player in the Chamber of Commerce.
>
> Take care, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of g. crabtree
> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 6:31 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com; Joan Opyr
> Subject: [Norton AntiSpam] Re: [Vision2020] City Council's selective
> compassion
>
> O.K. I'll bite . What exactley are the specifics of the "David Williams"
> deal? I have seen it mentioned in several posts and have not a clue what
> it's about. Does it involve Mack's trailer court? Would somebody mind
> connecting the dots for me. Thanks
> G. Crabtree
>
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