[Vision2020] Business parking

[Joan Opyr]

On 14 Dec 2005, at 22:06, g. crabtree wrote:

> Ms Opyr, It is amazing how consisantly you almost get it right. Folks 
> in apts. downtown park for days on end in the jackson st. lot and 
> still spare spaces. N.S.A. students come & go as well as shop 
> downtown. The only time parking seems to be difficult is at times 
> N.S.A. is not in session--farmers market & after 5:00 etc.
>  
> Error number two would be that I am not the owner of the Lock Shop. I 
> am but the lowly cook & bottle washer, But thanks for the 
> promotion(aww and you pretend that ya don't like me)
>  
> Error number three. Faulty comparisons. "Third Street Mall" parking 
> lot is private property. Jackson st. is public. Co-Op customers parked 
> in front of my place of employment all the time, as was their right. 
> There are no signs advising customers of the shopping center not too. 
> The Co-Op was, all in all, a good neighbor and while parking was 
> sometimes tight, we did O.K. I expect it will be the same with our new 
> tennants.

Sirrah,

As long as we're counting errors, tenants is spelled tenants, not 
tennants.  The latter is a kind of beer, and not a very good beer at 
that.  I'm also wondering why a lock shop would require a cook and 
bottle washer.  Perhaps a key polisher would be more apt?

Here's the poop, Scoop -- the Moscow Hotel pays property taxes.  Lots 
of property taxes.  So, too, do the many retail businesses located in 
the CBD.  Until very recently, NSA was tax-exempt.  If they win their 
appeal before the IBTA, they will be tax-exempt once more.  They have 
in the past and may in the future pay absolutely nothing in the way of 
support for the Jackson Street public parking lot.  This ticks me off.  
This gets my goat.  This is unacceptable to me.  If NSA were selling 
something other than recycled pap from old Thomas L. Dixon novels, 
perhaps they might be reclassified as a business rather than a college. 
  But they're not, and so they are in violation of city ordinance.  
Again I ask, why should NSA expect special treatment?  Why should the 
City of Moscow rewrite zoning code to fit the needs of the one and only 
illegal occupant of the CBD at the expense of all of the legal 
occupants?

Either you can't answer that, Gee Crabtree, or you won't.  Unlike Tom, 
I don't expect an answer; that's because I don't think you have one.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

PS: I'm not pretending to dislike you.  I do dislike you.  I wouldn't 
use the Lock Shop if I were shut out of my own underwear.  What I'd do 
is call Christ Church and ask them to loan me their safecracker.  (Re: 
Vera White's column of December 9th.)  Just out of curiosity, I wonder 
why Doug thought there might be a safecracker in his congregation?  I 
don't doubt that there are plenty of crackers in the Kirk, but are any 
of them safe?


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