[Vision2020] Complaints Filed Against Boarding Houses

[Joan Opyr]

On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Gabriel Rench wrote:

> This complaint list only people from Christ Church or Trinity. I 
> graduated
> from U of I and I can't tell you how many people I new that boarded 
> with a
> family that went to U of I (especially exchanged students). Every city 
> I
> have ever lived in I new of some one boarding with a family. This is 
> not out
> of the ordinary. Don you are doing a good job making us look like the
> friendly neighbor and the Intoleristas a little more intolerant.  Keep 
> up
> the good work soldier! Cheers!
> Gabriel Rench


You graduated from the U of I and you spell like this?  Go back, young 
man, go back!  You seem to have slept through some classes.

As Omie Drawhorn noted in her April 11th Daily News article, Moscow 
City Code allows for one -- ONE -- boarder in a single-family 
residence.  The owner of the house must apply for and receive a 
conditional use permit, first proving that there is adequate parking 
and that the addition of ONE boarder "will not disrupt the character of 
the neighborhood."  Moscow code does not allow for multiple boarders in 
a single family home, period.  Every city you've ever lived in doesn't 
come into this argument, Gabe; this isn't London, Beijing, or Timbuktu. 
  The only zoning ordinance that applies here is Moscow zoning 
ordinance, and, quelle surprise, Doug Wilson and his followers are once 
again in consistent and deliberate violation of that ordinance.  The 
pattern here is not one of religious persecution, no matter how hard 
you try to spin this pathetic fallacy.  The pattern is that Christ 
Church and its affiliates believe that they are above the law, hence 
the perpetual demands for special treatment and the insistence on a 
blind eye in enforcement.

Is there not one, single, solitary thing that you can and will do by 
the secular book?  Must you jump in line, thumb your noses, and cut 
corners everywhere?  You call us intolerant; I call you obnoxious.  All 
you need to do is obey the same laws as the rest of us.  That's it.  No 
one wants to run you out of town; we simply ask that you respect the 
same laws that we are obliged to respect, the laws that make it 
possible for us all to be good neighbors.  You are not good neighbors.  
Good neighbors don't cram their houses full of transient students, 
trampling on the lawns, the patience, and the good will of those who 
live around them.  Good neighbors don't take up retail parking to which 
they are not entitled and for which they pay no taxes.  Good neighbors 
make an effort to play by the rules; they don't shriek religious 
persecution when the rules they've chosen to ignore are finally 
enforced.  Good neighbors don't demand that the goal posts be moved 
because they've failed to score the extra point.

Just for the record, Gabe and others, when Chris Schlect of New St. 
Andrews was told by the city in the year 2000 that New St. Andrews 
could not continue to operate out of his living room, the city also 
made mention of the fact that if NSA wanted to run student boarding 
houses, they would need to apply for conditional use permits.  NSA has 
had six years to get its house(s) in order.  Clearly, they have chosen 
not to.  Why the pretense that these assorted zoning complaints are a 
bolt from the blue?  I'm sorry to say you asked for it, but you asked 
for it.

Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment
www.joanopyr.com

PS: Hands up all who pay taxes on their lavish boarding house incomes?
PPS: Someone probably ought to look into that, but it won't be this 
good soldier.
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