[Vision2020] Moscow-Pullman Highway going commercial

[Bruce and Jean Livingston]

Or it could be that the Toyota dealership owners want to be closer to 
Pullman, not further from Pullman.

Which is why the frittering away of A street for student apartments that 
have no safe way of crossing the Pullman Road was bad planning by the prior 
council of the highest order.  What we need to do is get the land behind the 
Palouse mall zoned motor business and keep our commercial property inside 
Moscow and close to the border where city services are available.  And then 
stick to a plan and not conduct our growth by one ad hoc re-zoning to 
whatever gets asked a piece at a time.

It is obvious that Whitman County is desperately working to obtain 
commercial property, and that is not going to change.  Competition has 
arrived.  The monopoly that Pullman and Moscow enjoyed on commercial 
development appears to be ending.  Assuming water issues (availability) can 
be resolved, the corridor will develop unless the Whitman County 
Commissioners have a change of heart.

Moscow needs to open more motor business property in the general 
neighborhood of where it was supposed to be -- adjacent to our existing 
commmercial strip between the downtown and the state line.  Much of A Street 
is gone, but there is a lot more open land behind the mall, Wal-Mart, etc. 
to the border.  That seems like the logical place for motor business to me.

Bruce Livingston


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>
To: <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2006 6:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Moscow-Pullman Highway going commercial


> Paul asks:
> "What did the legal notice say?"
>
> It can be found here:
> http://www.lmtribune.com/filehub/documents/legals/1160406089-378753.PDF
>
> Chas says:
> "It could mean nothing more ominous than a business needing a larger
> premises and suitable property being available."
>
> That's exactly what it means.  There *could* have been part of 77 acres
> of suitable property available, but we all know what happened there.
>
> DC
>
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