[Vision2020] Big-box controversy

[Mark Solomon]

James,

Huh?? "bulldozer up the side of Moscow Mountain"???

The logging cuts just below the summit you see 
from town are on Bennett ground.  Come on up and 
tour the logging I'm doing anytime.. it's light 
impact to the nth degree primarily removing small 
diameter grand for for ton wood to open the 
forest floor to sunshine for larch/cedar 
regeneration.

Mark


At 8:08 AM -0800 1/19/06, Reynolds, James wrote:
>The new council seems to be taking over the 
>rudder quite well. Mark Solomon is very much 
>welcome to approach the council with his 
>petition and Randy Fife's counsel of caution was 
>very appropriate. It would not be fair if the 
>council allowed the hearing of the petition to 
>occur without proper announcement to the public. 
>It would only lead to further takeovers of the 
>limited time our council members have to meet by 
>other groups with axes to grind.
>
>Mark Solomon and Aaron Ament are both great men 
>in our community. They have invested a lot of 
>themselves to ensure that the progressive 
>interests are heard in our conservative State. I 
>have always agreed with Aaron's positions and if 
>Mark had not run that bulldozer up the side of 
>Moscow Mountain I would be able to say that I 
>have always agreed with him too. Thanks to both 
>of you.
>
>One thing for us all to remember about 
>development is that it will occur. In the 30 
>years that Moscow has been my home there 
>has been a lot of development as the past 
>weeks nostalgic postings entailed. Most of the 
>development has been favorable to the community. 
>In my opinion commercial expansions have not 
>been a problem. The malls being established, the 
>big stores shuffling about for position have 
>been positive responses to growth in our 
>community.
>
>The growth in the community that I have had 
>issue with is the housing. What are these vinyl 
>apartment buildings doing sprawled on every 
>side-hill in Moscow? If there is an aesthetics 
>problem this is it. We need to do some major 
>investing in trees to hide some of that. A 
>solution to the sprawl, which is really most 
>noticeable in housing, would be to allow and 
>seek high-rise apartments. To try and control 
>sprawl by limiting the stores isn't realistic in 
>a growing community. The downtown we have is too 
>small to house the stores we have, at least when 
>limited by building height regulations. If we 
>can't grow by sprawl and we can't grow by 
>vertical measures, where can we grow that would 
>be acceptable? I am pretty sure that I know 
>Aaron well enough that he would reply that he 
>does not want growth; that he wants Moscow to 
>remain the small town he grew up around. That is 
>not an option however, we people keep breeding.
>
>
>
>
>James Reynolds
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