FW: Re: [Vision2020] RE: Tax Base?

[Tom Hansen]

Exactly, Ms. Huskey.

The board of adjustment was convened to evaluate and determine their 
interpretation of the Moscow City Zoning Code and how it applies to the 
complaint filed against NSA, not Merriam-Webster's definition of "ignorance" 
and how it applies to Donovan Arnold's interpretation of irrelevant matters.

Later, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

>From: "melyndahuskey at earthlink.net" <melyndahuskey at earthlink.net>
>Reply-To: melyndahuskey at earthlink.net
>To: "Vision 2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: FW: Re: [Vision2020] RE: Tax Base?
>Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 19:50:30 -0700
>
>  Kai writes:
>
>  "As with Joan, read the definition of "school". Whether a school is for
>  profit or not is irrelevant."
>
>  Actually, what's irrelevant here is what the dictionary says.  (And what 
>I
>say, and what you say . . .)  The code is a technical document interpreted
>by governmental agencies and the courts, and it's *their* definitions that
>matter.
>
>  I'd agree with you, Kai, that the history of ethnic enclaves in the U.S.
>is perhaps less important to this discussion than other points of
>contention, and so I'd like to encourage you to engage with another part of
>it:  there are plenty of Christians--as well as others--in this town who'd
>like to see the multifarious enterprises associated with Christ
>Church--their college; their schools, both downtown and in people's homes;
>and their boarding houses, particularly those which house four or five
>students and their cars in neighborhoods with limited parking, comply with
>the law.  We'd also like to see everybody pay their share of property tax,
>and not use religion as an excuse to get out of their obligations to our
>town.  Good neighbors aren't just "clean-cut" and attractive:  they
>shoulder their fair share of the common burdens of citizenship.
>
>  Some of us wish that were the case with NSA, with the Nuart, with Atlas
>School and St. Monica's, with those boarding houses.  We don't wish for
>that because we hate Christians, or even members of Christ Church, despite
>Doug Wilson's assertions, and yours.  And there's a certain irony in you
>asking for evidence from somebody else when you've made such a whoppingly
>unsupported statement about the motives of the folks filing the claim and
>the motives of the folks who think it's reasonable to expect everybody to
>comply with the law.
>
>Melynda Huskey
>
>
>
>
>
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