[Vision2020] Quality of Life

[J Ford]

I watched channel 13's broadcast of the Public Works meeting in horror last 
night as one member of the public after another came up and pleaded with the 
City Council people and the City Staff NOT to put the bridge in or develop 
Third anymore than it is now - my sence of horror came from the plastic 
smile that was painted on Nancy's face and the total lack of empathy and 
understanding these Coucil folks like John Kimberling have and the apparent 
disinfranchisement that seems to be there but also growing from the majority 
of the Council.

It was bad enough that the City Council (full) was "happy with this plan" or 
"could live with this development" or "can go along with this new 
neighborhood" when the Council heard the Joseph Street plans even when one 
homeowner after another spoke up as to what is happening NOW to their 
property and what WILL happen if that development goes through.  But now 
this!

What is it going to take to get the City Council to understand they are 
supposed to be representing the CITIZENS of Moscow, not the City Council's 
interests or the mayor's or the developers alone?  How many more concessions 
are we as tax paying, voters going to have to make all for the "sake of 
development and growth"?  There are three main streets that lead from the 
west side of town to the east - and they are travelled far too fast by the 
young fools who just have to show off how big a truck, loud a music system, 
fast an engine  they have.  I am getting tired of trying to cross a street 
and having to run because some fool won't take the time to let the 
pedistrians to get all the way across.  I am sick of the loud obnoxious 
vulger music they insist we all HAVE to be in on and I don't feel like the 
displacement of many long-time residents and/or their trees should be an 
expected "give-me" that we have to fork over to the university/college kids 
in this town.

If you need to be somewhere by a specific time - leave on time or with time 
to spear to make sure you get there when you need to.

There is NOTHING that has to happen in 10 minutes that will be worse for you 
if you take the extra 1-2 mintues by "gerbiling" via another route.  If 
anything, the bridge will only complicate the traffic mess we live with now 
by - as one person put it - funnelling the cars/trucks through Third Street.

And lets not forget the impact the bridge will have on Paradse Creek - just 
how much "development" do you think that creek can take before it totally 
stops functioning?  I realize there are a lot of people who could care less 
about a small creek, but really - those of us who do, will not let it go so 
easily.  It, our way of life, the residents immediately impacted by this 
"development" will make it a long, hard fight to keep that area as is.

J  ;)




>From: "aaron ament" <citizenament at moscow.com>
>To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Quality of Life
>Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 09:11:42 -0700
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>Quality of Life
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>	The intention of the City of Moscow to connect Third Street to Mountain 
>View, and thereby funnel traffic through a quiet neighborhood and on 
>through the already congested center of our downtown should be a concern to 
>us all.  It is a "Quality of Life" issue.
>	Only a small portion of our populace will be affected on a daily basis by 
>the presence of the bridge.  Supporters of this bridge maintain that a 
>great number of residents of Moscow will benefit from the seeming ease in 
>travel the bridge promises.
>	If we allow ourselves to look past the obvious "Quality of Life" issue 
>that confronts a few residents of our city then we fail to protect the 
>"Quality of Life" for all who live in Moscow.  If we allow the "Quality of 
>Life" that brought and keeps us here to be taken from us one small piece at 
>a time we will find someday that we have had our
>"Quality of Life" taken from us all.
>
>Aaron Ament


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