[Vision2020] Parking Downtown Moscow

[Bill London]

In other words, in the spirit of free enterprise, the developer was rebuffed
in his effort to create a situation where his problem (providing adequate
parking for his development) would become a city problem and therefore all
of us would bear the cost of solving that problem?????
BL


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mark Solomon" <msolomon at moscow.com>
To: "Bill London" <london at moscow.com>; "Nils Peterson"
<nils_peterson at wsu.edu>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2006 12:21 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Parking Downtown Moscow


> I'm assuming that he pulled it because he was specifically asking for
> rezone to CBD which is the only zone that does not have an off-street
> parking requirement, a likely factor in his decision to ask for that
> specific zoning designation.
>
> m.
>
> At 10:04 AM -0700 6/27/06, Bill London 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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