[Vision2020] Complaints Filed Against Boarding Houses

[J Ford]

I hate to point out a couple of differences here - ok, no I don't but I will 
anyway...the "boarder" arrangements of the kirkers are that they have a 
bedroom and do chores and are part of the family PLUS they pay for the 
privilege of this whole arrangement.  The arrangement of other homes in town 
that "rent" to UI/WSU students is that they have APARTMENTS that are 
separate - the students feed themselves, clean their own places, are NOT 
part of the main house, etc.  HUGE difference.  Plus, in the VAST, vast 
majority, they are not members of the same "church" group or choir or 
what-have-you.  It is a renter/rentee situation not a "boarder/boardee" 
situation.  *yeah, I know - no such words, but you get my drift.*

J  :]




>From: Joan Opyr <joanopyr at moscow.com>
>To: "Gabriel Rench" <k5grench at hotmail.com>
>CC: "'Moscow Vision 2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Complaints Filed Against Boarding Houses
>Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:55:31 -0700
>
>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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