[Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion

[Tom Hansen]

Golly gee, Gee -

I have responded to your query, straight forward and honestly.

How many times must I ask a simple question before I receive a straight 
answer?

Is it fair and equitable for City Council to require NSA's neighbors to 
provide parking for an illegal non-commercial use, when the depletion of 
those parking stalls will result in those businesses losing sales?

Waiting . . .

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho




>From: "g. crabtree" <jampot at adelphia.net>
>To: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>,        "Moscow Vision 2020" 
><vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion
>Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 12:44:25 -0800
>
>Wrong business proposal, lightning.

>----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com>
>To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Cc: <jampot at adelphia.net>; <joanopyr at moscow.com>
>Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2005 12:22 PM
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] City Council's selective compassion
>
>
>Gee Crabtree -
>
>No disruption at all, and I didn't overlook the line from your communiqu.
>In fact, I affirmed it: "Dan Mack could have done whatever he wanted with
>his property." However, you overlooked that Mack predicated his subsequent
>actions, i.e. eviction and demolition, on the proposed blueprint that he
>showed to P&Z and City Council, which they could have denied.
>
>It is conceivable that Mack would have razed the trailer park just for the
>hell of it, if City Council did not grant him approval. It's a free 
>country,
>and there are no laws against being a jackass. "No Clue" Farris proves 
>this.
>
>But it is equally conceivable that City Council could have said, "No, Mr.
>Mack, we do not grant you approval," and, given this scenario, poor Dan 
>Mack
>wouldn't have gone to the Daily News asking people to feel sorry for him
>because he had to move all that trash off his property.
>
>To answer your question, yes, Mack proposed a change in scope to his legal
>use. And to reiterate the point that you have not conceded, City Council 
>had
>no obligation to grant Mack approval of his enlarged scope that would 
>result
>in hardship on his tenants, just as City Council has no obligation to amend
>the Comprehensive Plan and the Zoning Code to accommodate NSA's habitual
>violations.
>
>Now, I answered your question, but you have not answered mine. Is it fair
>and equitable for City Council to require NSA's neighbors to provide 
>parking
>for an illegal non-commercial use, when the depletion of those parking
>stalls will result in those businesses losing sales?
>
>Here, let me simplify if for you. Is it fair and equitable of City Council
>to punish NSA' neighbors in order to remedy NSA's third zoning violation?
>
>Take care, Moscow.
>
>Tom Hansen
>Moscow, Idaho
>
>"I think one of the best ways to support education is to make successful
>private schools like Logos prosper through tax exemption."
>
>- Donovan Arnold (July 11, 2005)