[Vision2020] Re: Parking Downtown Moscow

[Craine Kit]

On Jun 27, 2006, at 3:05 PM, Nils Peterson wrote:
>
> Maybe others who attended the meeting can clarify, but my  
> recollection is:
> 1. Beebe indicated he had a buyer for the two white grain elevators  
> (6th &
> Jackson, 8th & Jackson) and, that the buyer put a contingency on  
> the sale
> where Beebe was obligated to get the CBD zone, because it does not  
> have an
> off-street parking requirement. He indicated that any additional
> requirements were a deal breaker for his buyer.

This is one of the major flaws in our so-called planning and zoning  
system. Rather than acknowledging an area is moving towards  
redevelopment and deciding what to do with it regardless of  
ownership, Moscow waits until the sale of a specific parcel is  
dependent on a rezone. A failure to rezone deprives someone of the  
assumed property "right" to maximize their profit from the sale.  
Perhaps everyone would be better off if the City adopted the  
conventional meaning of "planning."

Kit Craine