[Vision2020] NSA & Equitable CUP Parking Mitigation

[Pat Kraut]

I did not know that! I thought GTE/Verizon still owned it! Well! I did learn
something this month!
PK





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matt Decker" <mattd2107 at hotmail.com>
To: <pkraut at moscow.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 1:50 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] NSA & Equitable CUP Parking Mitigation



Pat,

Its the Verizon building now, located on Howard st, one block east of the
high school.

Matt

>From: "Pat Kraut" <pkraut at moscow.com>
>To: "vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] NSA & Equitable CUP Parking Mitigation
>Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 13:51:18 -0800
>
>Where is the AT&T building??
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Scott Bauer
>   To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>   Sent: Sunday, January 08, 2006 12:09 PM
>   Subject: [Vision2020] NSA & Equitable CUP Parking Mitigation
>
>
>   Visionaries,
>
>   Presumably NSA, even if permitted conditionally, would at least operate
>at the current size or, given traditional growth rates, expand.
>
>   The Jackson Street parking lot has 140 parking slots. According to the
>City's own off-street parking schedule, NSA currently creates a parking
>demand of approximately 100 parking slots. (NSA is beginning to spill over
>into other downtown buildings already).
>
>   Although NSA's building is small (approx 13,000sf.) it creates a need,
>as it operates now, for a parking lot approximately 2/3rds the size of the
>entire Jackson Street parking lot.
>
>   According to the City's own parking schedule if the AT&T building were
>being used by an unclassified retail businesses, it would generate less
>than 1/3rd of NSA's parking traffic.
>
>   Having familiarized myself with several off-street parking schedules it
>appears that Colleges, in general, can generate significantly more traffic
>per square foot of floor area than ! do many ordinary retail uses.
>
>   NSA is essentially a non-tax paying special-interest group receiving
>parking entitlements from general municipal tax dollars, and as a result is
>interfering with the parking rights of small retail shop owners and the
>access rights of community users who are entitled to first priority in
>parking for commercial, cultural, retail, and entertainment purposes,
>according to the City's own Comprehensive Plan.
>
>   If NSA enlarges or expands, or if other colleges operate within the CBD,
>a need for an expensive tax-payer financed multi-story parking structure
>could easily be created.
>
>   One of the traditional reasons City's exempt downtown business owners
>from off-street parking requirements and impact fees is because
>Comprehensive Plans ordinarily prioritize and reserve downtown space for
>activities which serve the general population instead of only serving the
>needs of non-tax paying special-interest groups. Moscow's Downtown i! s
>simply not a place where special interests should find shelter from their
>obligations to pay their fair share of parking-development costs.
>
>   If the City Council feels sympathy for NSA which moved Downtown after
>being specifically instructed not to operate in premises without zoning
>certificates, then how much sympathy does the City Council feel for nearby
>small business owners who had no notice that NSA was operating without the
>proper credentials, and further, how much sympathy does the City Council
>feel for the entire community who is paying tax dollars to subsidize a
>special interest which is interfering with the parking opportunities of
>general area commercial users.
>
>   Finally, if NSA eventually expanded to the median size of other private
>not-for-profit liberal arts colleges it would have an enrollment of 2000 in
>the downtown core.  Under the current off-street parking schedule this
>would, progressively, generate the need for 1,340 government subsidized
>parking slots, through small gradual incrimental amendments to its CUP.
>(If the City lacks the political will to prevent the subsidy of 100
>parking! slots, then where will the City draw the line? 200, 300, ?).
>Perhaps we can rely upon NSA's representations that it will never change
>its enrollment policy, perhaps not.
>
>   Scott
>
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Pat

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