[Vision2020] LMT Letter to the editor on Ament

[Tim Lohrmann]

  All,
  The letter below appeared in the LMT this morning and provides some excellent reasons why Aaron Ament deserves another term on the Council. 
   
  I sure don't agree with Aaron 100% of  the time. 
  But he's a good listener to the concerns of his neighbors----and several of the neighborhoods in Moscow are better for it. 
  TL 
   
   
  Lewiston Morning Tribune
  Letter to the editor
  Thursday, October 25, 2007
   
  Ament answers correctly
  Candidates for Moscow City Council, how would you answer these questions?
  Should taxpayers pay $880,000-plus for a road whose sole purpose is to provide access to a developer's land?
  Should a developer have to pay impact fees to defray the cost of infrastructure for a new development?
  Before a major collector road is put in should the comprehensive plan be consulted?
  Before such a road dumps into a neighborhood, should that neighborhood be consulted?
   
  The questions sound abstract. However, they describe the situation with respect to a major north-south collector road proposed on the east side of the ball fields planned on West Palouse River Drive. The city council will make the final decision with input from the transportation commission.
   
  Very late in the planning process, city staff told the Fields Planning Committee that there would have to be such a road. On Oct. 2 the FPC voted unanimously against such a road. 
   
  Why?
   
  It will add at least $1 million to the cost of the ball fields. This location will diminish the size of one of the playing fields. A major collector road adjacent to the ball fields is unsafe. The proposed road would funnel traffic from a 240-acre subdivision up Conestoga through Frontier Addition. Neighbors feel this is unsafe.
   
  Aaron Ament answers these questions: No, yes, yes, yes! He has listened to our neighborhood concerns. If you care about your neighborhood, vote for Ament.
   
  Gail H. Adele
Moscow

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