[Vision2020] Business parking

[Tom Hansen]

Mr. Crabtree -

 

You claim that parking limitations should not be considered in regards to
NSA.

 

Yet, it was a major topic of discussion at the December 5, 2005 City Council
Public Hearing on Schools in Non-Residential Zones, as recorded and posted
at:

 

http://www.tomandrodna.com/Zoning/

 

Apparently, judging by your postings, you feel that retaining NSA at its
current location is extremely important to you.  Yet, the name G. Crabtree
has not appeared until just recently.  Hmmm.

 

Take care, Moscow.

 

Tom Hansen

Moscow, Idaho

"law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice, and when they
fail in this purpose, they become the dangerously structured dams that block
the flow of social progress."

- Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. 

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From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of g. crabtree
Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 6:28 AM
To: Joan Opyr
Cc: Vision2020 Moscow; Linda Pall; Nancy Chaney; Lois Blackburn; John
Dickinson
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Business parking

 

Madam, I am pleased to see that my two cents has not only got me the
pleasure of this rollicking discourse, but spell check too. My cup runneth
over!

 

The staff and students of N.S.A. pay taxes in all the various and sundry
ways you and I do, just not property tax on part of the building. Are you
suggesting that all tax exempt organizations be banned for parking on city
property?

 

I don't really understand why you keep bringing this discussion around to
parking. You know and I know and everyone reading this knows that your beef
isn't about having to walk half a block for your mid-morning frapachino. To
pretend other wise is pretty disingenuous.

 

G.Crabtree

 

P.S. Should you ever find yourself locked out of your under- garments feel
free to give my competitors a call. In fact I insist.

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Joan Opyr <mailto:joanopyr at earthlink.net>  

To: g. crabtree <mailto:jampot at adelphia.net>  

Cc: Vision2020 <mailto:vision2020 at moscow.com>  Moscow ; Linda
<mailto:lpall at moscow.com>  Pall ; Nancy <mailto:nchaney at moscow.com>  Chaney
; Lois Blackburn <mailto:lblackburn at turbonet.com>  ; John Dickinson
<mailto:johnd at moscow.com>  

Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 10:59 PM

Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Business parking

 


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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