[Vision2020] A Kirk Cathdral l as a gateway to Moscow'

[keely emerinemix]

How in the world can a piece of land between a half-acre and an acre in size accommodate not only a large church building, but the parking space congregants will need?  Surely they're not planning on using any Gritman parking space!  And how does the proxy thing work, anyway?  It seems at some point that the seller would be made aware of the real purchaser and still be within his or her legal right to interrupt the sale.  Were purchase and building funds loaned to Christ Church, to a sudden LLC made up of elders, or to a single person who, I would presume, then secured a promise to have the church pay the mortgage -- and who, then, acted as co-signer or guarantor for whom?  Will the building be tax-exempt as a church, or will we see the same questions being raised and yet not answered this time around?  And will the new "cathedral" also have classroom space for a newly-expanded New St. Andrews, whose administrators insist that their having complied with the city's parking requirements means they are free to raise their previously agreed-upon enrollment cap?  Will increases in NSA's future enrollment be assured -- to 250?  500?  1,000, including alternative-classics scholars? -- now that parking for the new sanctuary can be used, presumably, by the earnest and sweater-vest clad?  And what of the urban-renewal aspect of that and nearby parcels?  Is this what the City had in mind by "urban renewal"?  A large church on about half an acre?  Really?Is someone in City government going to ask these questions?  If the proposed Wilson-Hoffman-Gray subdivision on North Polk comes into being -- and I'd invite you all to take a look at the many iterations of building plans and plats the three have offered to the City; it's, in my mind, a Second Circle of Hell-type subdivision -- will we have the Kirk effectively heralding the North and South edges of Moscow?  Perhaps we can take steps now to make sure they don't attempt to have the state line moved -- with a little hard work and bonhomie, why not try for the West entrance as well?  (I don't worry about the East; after all, that's just for Troy and Bovill, a demographic entirely unnecessary to plans for the Oxford of the Inland Northwest).  Or could it be that the new parcel will be used to house the Christ Church Community Food Bank?  Oh, wait.  That'd just be silly.keely"And these women that you spit on as they try to change their worlds/Are immune to your consultations . . . they're quite aware of what they're going through"(With apologies to David Bowie)From: donaldrose at cpcinternet.comTo: vision2020 at moscow.comDate: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:16:00 -0700Subject: [Vision2020] A Kirk Cathdral l as a gateway to Moscow'

















Visionaries:

 

Today, according to my source, the land
deal for the projected Kirk Cathedral will close.  A proxy was selected to
purchase the land since, I am told, the Kirk has had difficulty securing land
after the seller is made aware of the buyer.  The plan is to build on the
little tiny triangle across from Gritman that is only .7 of an acre.  The
building will accommodate a projected 1,000 to 1,200 people.  What is a
church (or any non property tax paying entry) doing on land designated for
urban renewal, you ask?  Ms. Lund and I have raised that question several
times over the past two years with little success.  Perhaps the time is
ripe to reopen the question.  Or, has Doug Wilson finally succeeded in
making a very concrete statement about his claim that Moscow is his
town?  

 

Rose Huskey

 

 







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