[Vision2020] Re: Thompson Property Thoughts to Ponder

[Craine Kit]

The City’s revision of the subdivision code is coming back onto the  
table. So far, it has been based on the existing code. This is good  
time to consider encoding a new and different approach to guiding  
growth. It might mean scrapping the existing subdivision code and  
rethinking how we design new developments (residential, commerical,  
industrial, and mixed) to fit into what we have.

Perhaps we could hold some informal workshops or use the process New  
Cities brought to draft a new subdivision code that would work better  
than the disconnected approach we now have.

Kit Craine

On May 26, 2006, at 7:03 AM, Nils Peterson wrote:

> Donovan Arnold wrote:
>
>> It certainly is nice of Hansen and Peterson to discuss between  
>> each  other what
>> the Thompsons' ought to do with their property. Perhaps  maybe the  
>> Thompsons'
>> have a few suggestions on what Hansen and Peterson  can do with their
>> properties.
>
>>  _DJA
>
> The irony here is that the property I own in Moscow was (as far as  
> I can
> tell) owned by the Thompsons for many years, as a rental house, and  
> is part
> of the Indian Hills subdivision that (as far as I can tell) they  
> created.
> So, my presumption is, the Thompsons did have their input on my  
> property, as
> far as zoning and platting are considered.
>
> Tom Hansen and I are wondering how to have a public process to talk  
> about
> developments in Moscow, an attempt to move away from the  
> confrontational
> mode that the city has just experienced. Perhaps you would care to  
> take a
> non-confrontational stance and join the community in thinking about  
> what it
> wants to be.
>
> As to having input in the Thompson ground, or any ground that comes  
> up for
> zoning and platting, that is the right and duty of the community.  
> Property
> rights are not absolute, and this is an area well established by  
> law and
> court rulings where the community is charged with helping to chart its
> future. Join us.
>
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