[Vision2020] Wilsons attack Moscow Food Co-op

[Nate Wilson]

Aloha Bill,
    I wouldn't call it retaliation. I'd call it sharing. Aaron and I are 
both just thoroughly hooked on the equitable application of zoning code. 
We love it. That's all. Here are our shoes. Walk a mile. The truth is 
that the code appears to makes a distinction between "drive-up 
facilities" (like malls, shopping centers, gas stations, Wal-marts, and 
/grocery stores/) and "retail enterprises." The CBD hopes to promote 
pedestrian traffic downtown (among other things), and so drive-up 
facilities don't fall into permitted uses. Retail enterprises do. Of 
course, I don't think you need to worry. The city would never decide 
against you. I mean a year ago council members were privately 
deliberating with you as to whether or not they should condemn Christ 
Church by name. (Perhaps Tom Hansen has that correspondence on his 
site?) If you want the city to decide against the Co-op you'll have to 
get my dad on the board.
    As far as your stressful time goes, I apologize. We couldn't 
possibly understand. It's just not something we've ever had to deal 
with. We should have waited until a couple years after your move. I 
don't know if this will help, but in the past I've found world music 
soothing.
    Like I've told the papers, I hope the city decides in your favor, 
and anybody without the mind of an anal-retentive fundamentalist should 
realize that the city should make a distinction between a Winco and a 
Co-op, just like they should between a College of 150 students, and the 
local state university. I like the Co-op. I like it so much that I want 
it to be on our team. If the Co-op board were to express public support 
of NSA in this "stressful period" of selective zoning code application, 
then I would drop my complaint the next day (seriously) and you could 
get back to sheet-rocking. I'm sure Aaron would do the same. Cheers, and 
good luck.

NDW




Bill London wrote:

> Attached is an article from today's Lewiston Tribune (page 4C, 5/18).
>  
> In retaliation for the zoning complaint filed against New St. Andrews 
> college by 3 disillusioned former Christ Church-ers, the Wilsons are 
> now filing a similar zoning complaint against the Moscow Food Co-op.
>  
> The Co-op has followed all the rules and as a retail business is 
> legally able to locate into the central business district in Moscow.  
> That is clear.
>  
> What is not clear is why the Wilsons have chosen to attack the Co-op 
> in this way.  Why do they want to force the staff and board of the 
> Co-op to spend their time and resources (especially during the 
> stressful period of moving the Co-op to the new location) on this 
> legal hassle? 
> BL
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