[Vision2020] get ready for Walmart

[Bruce and Jean Livingston]

In fact, it was Linda and Nancy who recognized the likely tie-breaking vote of Mayor Comstock and switched sides on the moratorium vote, voting not to have a moratorium but instead to have an emergency Big Box ordinance, that at least put us in the position that we have SOME control as an option.  Of course, it would be better not to annex land expected to be developed into Big Box commercial developments without having it controlled by a comprehensive, intensely commercial, big box ordinance in the first place, but that is a lesson for the future.

Bruce Livingston
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill London 
  To: Linda Pall 
  Cc: vision2020 at moscow.com 
  Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 3:54 PM
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] get ready for Walmart


  My apologies to Linda Pall for forgetting to include her in my thanks for the city council's big box emergency ordinance.
  Ooops.
  BL
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Linda Pall 
    To: Bill London 
    Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 1:23 PM
    Subject: Re: [Vision2020] get ready for Walmart


    Dear Bill,

    If you look at the record, you'll find that it was my motion that got this off the dime... How  quickly we forget!

    All the best,
    Linda
      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Bill London 
      To: vision2020 at moscow.com 
      Cc: John Dickinson ; Gary Bryan & Nancy Chaney 
      Sent: Friday, November 11, 2005 11:09 AM
      Subject: [Vision2020] get ready for Walmart


      My thanks to City Council members John Dickinson and Nancy Chaney who pushed the creation of Moscow's emergency ordinance about big-box stores.
      Without that ordinance now in place, Moscow would find itself (as was true in Pullman) with rules that favored Walmart, a city staff that would not allow public comment, and a hugely frustrated public.
      I appreciate their foresight
      BL


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