FW: [Vision2020] Council Must Reject Rezone

Tue May 9 13:17:18 PDT 2006

RE: [Vision2020] Council Must Reject Rezone
-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor [mailto:editor at lataheagle.com]
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:38 PM
To: Mark Solomon
Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Council Must Reject Rezone

I may be there, but that is the week my daughter is graduating high school
and we'll have family here from out of state.
As for her graduation, I'd like to state a line from "Clash of the
Titans"......"Release the Kracken!!" as she takes her place in the adult
world.
Good luck everyone, you are going to need it with this hardheaded,
opinionated, sarcastic and ,  might I add intelligent and beautifu l, young
lady free to roam the world.

soon to be an empty nester
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Mark Solomon [mailto:msolomon at moscow.com]
  Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 12:21 PM
  To: Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor; Vision2020 at Moscow. Com
  Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Council Must Reject Rezone

  I agree with you entirely on the zoning/diversification issues. That's why
I have argued for decades that the City is shooting itself in the foot every
time it rezones Light Industrial ground to some commercial zone and why we
have asked for the Comp Plan map for the Thompson land to be designated in
part as Light Industrial.

  By the way, there is a hearing in front of p&z 5/24 to rezone another 8.5
acres from Light Industrial to Motor Business. This time it's the area
around the Renaissance Mall between 3rd, A, Line and Lieuallen. See you
there, Kai?

  http://www.moscow.id.us/PublicNotices/PubNotice.asp

  Mark

  At 11:18 AM -0700 5/9/06, Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor wrote:
    My point is there are worse things to put in besides retail.
    Frankly the smell of cattle doesn't bother me, I've wound up face down
in a wet barnyard too many times. Frankly I find the cookie cutter housing
developments a bigger scourge.
    This town needs to get its eggs diversified between retail, both local
and national, ag, some type of manufacturing and the university. Right now,
it seems as though everyone wants to throw all their eggs into the
university basket.
    What happens when the grants fail to materialize or cutbacks are forced
by less taxpayer money? The UI is a hurting institution, BSU is rapidly
overtaking it as the state's premier public college. It is going to feel the
squeeze of competition by BYU as it expands it program in S. Idaho.
    Relying too much one one industry is not a smart move.

      -----Original Message-----
      From: Mark Solomon [mailto:msolomon at moscow.com]
      Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:57 AM
      To: Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor; Vision2020 at Moscow. Com
      Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Council Must Reject Rezone

      Except for that little water right detail. The county appropriately
took care of that when they adopted their Moscow Sub-basin groundwater
ordinance which limits the amount of animals at any confined facility in the
sub-basin. Theoretically, this would not be an issue in the City either if
they had followed their own code and rezoned the Thompson property when
annexed to Farm-Ranch Transitional which does not allow dairy operations
except as a conditional use on parcels larger than 20 acres and facilities
located more than 500' from a property line.

      The point I'm trying to make here, Kai, is flip statements regarding
community planning and zoning issues usually don't work.

      Mark

      m.

      At 10:28 AM -0700 5/9/06, Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor wrote:

        Ok, so put in a dairy.....same effect

          -----Original Message-----
          From: Mark Solomon [mailto:msolomon at moscow.com]
          Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 6:11 PM
          To: Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor; Vision2020 at Moscow. Com
          Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Council Must Reject Rezone

          Kai,

          Actually, they can't (put in a feedlot). The city zoning code does
not allow for feedlots. Even before last June's landowner requested
annexation, when it was in the county, city rules would have still applied
as it is in the Area of City Impact.

          B. Permitted Principal Uses and
          Structures:
          1. Agriculture, including the raising,
          harvesting, and selling of crops; on-site
          storage of grain and seed; the raising
          and sale of livestock or poultry;
          dairying and sale of dairy products; and
          other similar agricultural, horticultural,
          or animal husbandry uses, excluding
          feedlots with more than twenty (20)

          animals.

          As for purchasing the land and keeping it green space, word on the
street is Frank Bennett, who lives on the adjoining property, made
Thompson's an offer but was refused. I'm afraid I don't have Frank's ear so
have not been able to personally verify.

          Mark Solomon

          At 4:08 PM -0700 5/8/06, Kai Eiselein, LatahEagle Editor wrote:

            Of course, the Thompsons could keep it agricultural and put a
feedlot there.
            It has good drainage, power to the property and easy highway
access for
            semi-trucks.
            The odor would be in keeping with Moscow's "rural ambience".
            Be careful what you wish for................

            -----Original Message-----
            From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
            [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of Dan
Carscallen
            Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 3:43 PM
            To: 'Moscow Vision 2020'
            Subject: RE: [Vision2020] Council Must Reject Rezone

            Tom says:
            "One suggestion to maintain a large portion of Moscow's
"green"ery would
            be not to pave a 77-acre parcel that may evolve into nothing
more than a
            weed-infested blacktop eye-sore."

            Another suggestion:  The best "zoning" is "owning".  You want to
keep it
            "green", buy the sucker.

            DC

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