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[Tom Hansen]

Exactly, Joe -

The emphasis of the Central Business District, as explained in the
Comprehensive Plan, is "Business", tax-paying retail outlets that attract
customers.

Thanks to the City Council, there is absolutely nothing to prevent the
University of Idaho, Washington State University, or (worse yet) that
four-year junior college in Boise from purchasing a building (or two or
three or . . . ) downtown, create a parking lot, and growing roots in
downtown Moscow, Idaho.  The voices claiming that Moscow is non-growth
oriented may not be far from reality as local citizens go to work in Pullman
after dropping their children off at school on Moscow's Main Street after
Friendship Square is renamed "The Quad".  

This, most certainly, is NOT the Moscow I moved to in the summer of 1992,
but it may be the one I leave.

My sympathies, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Vandalville, Idaho
UI '96

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"