[Vision2020] LMT: Lewiston City Council creates growth task force

[Saundra Lund]

Will that Task Force be saying the Pledge at the opening of each meeting?
If not, can the good folks of Lewiston trust the Task Force's
recommendations?

And, while I'm asking questions, how come the Latah County Commissioners
only say the Pledge once a week instead of before each time they meet in
public to do county business?  Would the results of their work be different
or better if they said the Pledge as a part of each public meeting?  Or, how
about if they only said it once a month?  What about once a year?

Why is it OK for the Commissioners to have decided that once a week is
sufficient -- and no one is giving them any flack-- but some folks are
taking the Moscow City Council to task for going back to the way things were
done before 9/11?

And, as long as I'm asking questions -- and not that I don't think the
resulting discussion has been . . . enlightening -- I have a comment and one
final question to follow.  I was always taught that when one wants an answer
to a question, it's best to first go straight to the resource most likely to
be able to provide an accurate answer.

Dan, did you try approaching either our Mayor or any of the individual
Council members to get an answer to your question before posting to V2020 to
open the discussion to speculation, or did you at least cc them on your
V2020 post?  For those who aren't aware, those email addys are readily
available at:
http://www.ci.moscow.id.us/council/MeetCouncil.asp

Again, I *have* found the resulting discussion very interesting even if some
participants couldn't refrain from vitriol, but inquiring minds -- and
hopeful potential repeat supporters -- want to know  :-)


Saundra Lund
Moscow, ID

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-----Original Message-----
From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
On Behalf Of Area Man (Dan C)
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 1:19 PM
To: 'Vision 2020'
Subject: [Vision2020] LMT: Lewiston City Council creates growth task force

I seem to recall many questions concerning "growth" during the last
campaign.  Maybe this is something Moscow's City Council should look at
emulating?
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Lewiston City Council creates growth task force

By SANDRA L. LEE of the Tribune

A new task force charged with deciding what Lewiston needs to be ready to
meet the demands of expected growth was created by the Lewiston City Council
Monday night. 

More than 10 on a committee gets too cumbersome for good discussion, Mayor
Pro-tem John C. Currin said, and then recommended 12, plus possibly one more
and city staff members. 

The membership in large part resurrects a zoning task force that was
disbanded two weeks ago at the same meeting where Mayor Jeff Nesset told
Currin to develop the new group. 

The group's recommendations are to be presented to the council by Aug.
7. 

The previous task force recommended more than a dozen changes to zoning
codes, including those that allowed expanded commercial development in the
area of 17th Street and 16th Avenue and opened the door to 4,000-square-foot
residential lots in much of the city. 

Members from the old zoning task force include Currin; Brad Cannon, owner of
Cannon's Building Materials, a former Lewiston Chamber president and now on
the city's Urban Renewal Agency board; Robert Tippett, executive director of
Valley Vision; Richard White of Clarkston, a broker with Ray J. White and
Sons real estate; Jim Kleeburg, employed by Hahn Rental Center and vice
chairman of the city planning and zoning commission; and Robert Arleth, a
retired urban planner from Tacoma. 

Currin also included Ron Smith, Lewis-Clark State College vice president and
member of the now disbanded Normal Hill Planning Task Force. 
The others are David Doeringsfeld, Port of Lewiston manager; Barney Metz,
Lewiston Orchards Irrigation District manager; Joy Rapp, Lewiston School
District superintendent; Kevin Poole, Nez Perce County road and bridge
department director who retired from the city council this month but retains
a seat on the Lewis-Clark Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization; and
Mike Naccarato of the city's Transportation Advisory Commission. 
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