[Vision2020] Complaints Filed Against Boarding Houses

Wed Apr 12 17:24:01 PDT 2006

 This will bring out every person in town that rents and almost all of them will be for rezoning. Doesn't matter where they go to church because their pocketbook will be at stake.

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From: Donovan Arnold <donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com>
To: Gabriel Rench <k5grench at hotmail.com>; 'Joan Opyr' <joanopyr at moscow.com>
Cc: 'Moscow Vision 2020' <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:01:50 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Complaints Filed Against Boarding Houses

Gabriel,

Don't worry. They will make sure that every student and Moscow Resident is kicked out their houses too. It is worth it to them to get at NSA students. It is only fair and the moral thing to do, it is the law after all. 

And why be economical and kind to the evironoment, and allow affordable housing in our community when we can create urban sprawl by making sure every person has to rent 1200 square feet of space at $750 an apartment and own their own refrigerator, microwave, three tv's, washer and dryer, couch etc. It only makes sense not to share and have boarding houses in a college town. Of course the fact that Don Huskey has a several people living in his house that he is not legally related to and does not even live in Moscow is irrelevant. 

And yes, NSA students should not also be UI students. That would increase enrollment at UI bringing in more state and federal dollars to our community. 

_DJA

Gabriel Rench <k5grench at hotmail.com> wrote: 
Again: What about U of I students who board with families, foreign exchange students, Mormons who come up here for their mission and according to you Moscow is the only city in the whole united states that would not allow boarding?  Moscow is elite.  Also as my friend Deacon put it: 
"·  Why is a group of three or four roommates, one of whom owns the house, a violation? 
·  Why are people in Potlatch or on the Troy highway in violation of Moscow city code? 
·  Why are people who rent a separate apartment in a house that is zoned for such a purpose considered boarders?"

I understand that following an argument has never been you or Wayne Art Deco Fox's strong suite, but we have been prejudicially targeted for this. and this is why you blend weed and zoning all into one basket.  Cheers!
Gabriel Rench 

From: Joan Opyr [mailto:joanopyr at moscow.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:56 AM
To: Gabriel Rench
Cc: 'Moscow Vision 2020'
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Complaints Filed Against Boarding Houses

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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