[Vision2020] The Virtues Come First

[Kit Craine]

Donovan,

Very true. The city could also review the building codes to determine 
if there are acceptable (in terms of engineering) lower-cost 
alternatives to some of their requirements. For example, could the 
20’wide paved driveway be replaced with the old-fashioned cement strips 
placed where the tires actually go?

Kit
On Jun 23, 2005, at 4:51 AM, Donovan Arnold wrote:

> Kit,
>
> I also think that setting aside funding for helping of
> building low income housing and reducing property
> taxes on those that provide low income housing would
> be of great benefit.
>
> Donovan J Arnold
>
> --- Kit Craine <kcraine at moscow.com> wrote:
>
>> The first step in providing decent housing is an
>> attitude on the part
>> of the authorities that land use is a community
>> asset, rather than a
>> private individual’s key to maximum profit.
>>
>> The second is to enforce existing zoning codes
>> rather than to let the
>> for-profits gobble up the moderately priced
>> properties for illegal
>> conversion into multiple-family rentals.
>>
>> The third is to limit changes to the code to what
>> will benefit the
>> community rather than to what the property wants in
>> order to maximize
>> his/her economic benefits.
>>
>> Unfortunately, that won’t happen in our life time in
>> Moscow.
>>
>> Kit Craine.
>>