[Vision2020] Parking Downtown Moscow

[Jeff Harkins]

BL

It appears that Beebe's development was targeted for special 
circumstances - he was asked to resolve an issue that was not being 
imposed on others in the downtown block.  That is the thing about 
entrepreneurs - they get to make a decision about whether the rewards 
are worth the risks.  Beebe would be advised to place his investment 
dollars where the rewards compensate him for the risks he would be 
encountering.

These "micro-planned agendas" (no WalMart, no Lowe's, no corridor 
development, no highway reroute, no subdivisions, no additional motor 
business, no additional industrial zones, living wages ...) destroy 
the "investment climate".  Micro planned economies don't work - 
growth and development can't be regulated at the micro 
level.  Planning initiatives can be used to create a tapestry of 
desires about where folks will work, will shop, will live.  When 
those initiatives get strapped with regulation to force those 
initiatives, the freedom of choice becomes fettered - and the 
free-enterprise, entrepreneurial spark is extinquished.  It really is 
that simple Bill.


At 10:04 AM 6/27/2006, you wrote:
>N-
>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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