[Vision2020] Parking Downtown Moscow

[Bill London]

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I just do not get it.
Why did Beebe pull his development when asked about off-street parking?
what is the big deal?
Off-street parking places are regularly included within urban developments.
P&Z was right to bring it up.
Why would a developer quit in a huff over that issue?
BL
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nils Peterson" <nils_peterson at wsu.edu>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 6:32 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Parking Downtown Moscow


> A couple weeks ago or so, Rick Beebe pulled a rezone application for the
> south end of downtown -- the issue that came to a head in P&Z was related
to
> parking. Shortly after Murph wrote an editorial along the lines that we
> can'd use parking as a weapon to bludgeon would-be development downtown.
>
> But I just lost a few hours sleep over the issue (blame hot weather for
> sleeping with the windows open and listening to the Jake brakes on trucks
> coming in from Troy.)
>
> Lets take parking as a serious issue. Lets take the abandoned (or
> abandoning) area along the railroads as a real issue, and think about
> NewCities recommendation to grow inward (ie the railroad lands).
>
> How can we think about parking, and about the changes in that area of
> downtown? How can they help one another? How are they not connected?
>
>
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