[Vision2020] Advanced Real Estate Question

[g. crabtree]

The most glaring problem I see with this plan would have to be that the land 
in question doesn't belong to the State of Washington, it belongs to 
Hawkins. I can not imagine a circumstance where by they would be anxious to 
sell their property other than to offer them an obscene amount of the tax 
payers money. As to adjusting the Idaho/Washington boundary, under what 
scenario would that be advantageous to Whitman County much less Washington 
State?

What would make much more sense would be for all the folks  who do not wish 
to see this piece of property to be developed to pool their resources and 
acquire the land themselves. Then it would be 100% up to them what happens 
on the land. Of course I suspect that Hawkins will take the profit from the 
sale and simply acquire an even larger parcel of land in or near the 
corridor and the process will start anew.

Mean while the folks with the newly acquired land that they recently rescued 
can relocate their homes to their new, hard won purchase. Of course 
residential development will unquestionably use up a significantly greater 
amount of water then the previous development ever would have...

g

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Marcy" <kmmos1 at verizon.net>
To: "Vision2020" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Monday, February 11, 2008 6:55 AM
Subject: [Vision2020] Advanced Real Estate Question


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

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