[Vision2020] Advanced Real Estate Question

[Kenneth Marcy]

Hello, Visionaires:

Please excuse what may seem extraordinary naïveté in asking this. Why could 
not the City of Moscow, in cooperation with State of Idaho, purchase the 
Hawkins site from the State of Washington, and therewith adjust the 
boundary line between the two states? Yes, the closing paperwork for such a 
transaction would be somewhat more extensive in that it would involve two 
states, and I presume federal, approval, but aside from the extra levels of 
paperwork, and the subconscious idea that "you just can't buy part of 
another state", I don't understand why, with effort and cooperation, this 
advanced real estate transaction could not be done to the benefit of all 
parties involved.

(As an aside, I understand that Latah County was created by an act of 
Congress, so there is some precedent for them revisiting the boundary.)


Ken