[Vision2020] Customers Need Parking
Bill London
london at moscow.com
Thu Jul 30 15:53:11 PDT 2009
Actually, that is my point.
What is to stop NSA students from buying those permits?
BL
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wayne Price" <bear at moscow.com>
To: "Bill London" <london at moscow.com>
Cc: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>; "'Moscow Vision 2020'"
<vision2020 at moscow.com>
Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 3:49 PM
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Customers Need Parking
> Bill,
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> How can the city refuse to sell city parking permits to NSA students or
> staff?
> That law suit will cost us a bundle!
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> On Jul 30, 2009, at 3:42 PM, Bill London wrote:
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>> D-
>> You implied in your previous V2020 post that Bode's perspective was
>> incorrect or incomplete.
>> Please explain where Bode is wrong.
>> Will the city now be selling permits that allow permitees to fill spaces
>> in
>> the Jackson Street lot (spaces that could be filled by customer cars?)
>> Will the city restrict the permits to employees of downtown merchants
>> and
>> not allow NSA students/staff to buy them?
>> BL
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Dan Carscallen" <areaman at moscow.com>
>> Cc: "'Moscow Vision 2020'" <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 7:00 AM
>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Customers Need Parking
>>
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>>> Courtesy of today's (July 30, 2009) Moscow-Pullman Daily News
>>>
>>> City to issue 85 downtown parking permits
>>>
>>> The city of Moscow has announced it will limit the number of downtown
>>> parking permits available for purchase to 85.
>>>
>>> Permit purchasers will be asked to complete a brief survey to provide
>>> input
>>> about the primary use of the permit and which lots are expected to see
>>> the
>>> most use.
>>>
>>> Changes to the downtown parking configuration made July 13 by the
>>> Moscow
>>> City Council included the creation of one class of downtown parking
>>> permit
>>> to replace the previous green and yellow permits.
>>>
>>> The new permits will cost $75 each per year - less than the price of
>>> the
>>> previous $375 green and $250 yellow permits.
>>>
>>> The city set the 85-permit limit and created the survey in response to
>>> concerns it has received about selling out of permits and possible
>>> limitations on customer parking for downtown businesses.
>>>
>>> For information, call Les MacDonald at (208) 883-7028, or e-mail
>>> lmacdonald<@ci.moscow.id.us.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
>>> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com ]
>>> On Behalf Of Dan Carscallen
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:54 AM
>>> Cc: 'Moscow Vision 2020'
>>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Customers Need Parking
>>>
>>> Mr. Bode's letter was evidently written a little early.
>>>
>>> Stay tuned.
>>>
>>> DC
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
>>> [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com ]
>>> On Behalf Of Joe Campbell
>>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2009 6:47 AM
>>> To: Tom Hansen
>>> Cc: Moscow Vision 2020
>>> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Customers Need Parking
>>>
>>> Maybe there would be parking downtown if they didn't allow schools in
>>> the business district. Oh, that's right. They don't!
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>
>>> On Jul 30, 2009, at 9:28 AM, "Tom Hansen" <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Courtesy of today's (July 30, 2009) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with
>>>> special
>>>> thanks to Tom Bode.
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Customers need parking
>>>>
>>>> On July 6, the Moscow City Council passed a motion to reduce the
>>>> price of
>>>> parking permits in the Jackson Street parking lots to $75 per year
>>>> ($6.25/month or 21 cents/day).
>>>>
>>>> The chief reason given for inexpensive permits is to get employees and
>>>> owners off of Main Street and into the Jackson Street lots. I
>>>> believe the
>>>> effect of selling cheap permits will put many cars in these lots
>>>> that will
>>>> sit there all day. In fact, this is what your City Council desires.
>>>> Either
>>>> the council didn't think through, or just doesn't care, that the
>>>> effect of
>>>> this reduces the customer's opportunity to find a parking space. If
>>>> spaces
>>>> aren't turning over through the day, how will customers of the
>>>> downtown
>>>> find parking?
>>>>
>>>> I was told this idea of cheap parking permits came from Moscow
>>>> Chamber of
>>>> Commerce director Steven Hacker. I am shocked that the chamber would
>>>> push
>>>> an idea that limits the downtown customers' opportunity to find
>>>> parking,
>>>> so that the employees and owners can park in prime parking spaces. I
>>>> was
>>>> taught in every aspect of my business education to put the customers
>>>> first.
>>>>
>>>> In January 1978, Mayor Mann accepted a check from downtown
>>>> businesses to
>>>> pay off the balance of the debt on the Jackson Street lots. The City
>>>> Council passed a resolution in which they agreed to keep the Jackson
>>>> Street lots for downtown customers.
>>>>
>>>> The current council, many of who claim to be pro-business, has now
>>>> deviated 180 degrees from that agreement, by encouraging employees
>>>> to park
>>>> in those lots.
>>>>
>>>> If you find over the next year you are having trouble finding a
>>>> space to
>>>> park in the Jackson Street lots, make sure you let the mayor, her
>>>> staff,
>>>> the council and the chamber know how you feel about it.
>>>>
>>>> Thomas Bode, Moscow
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> Concerning the Jackson Street "Park it and Forget it" parking
>>>> lot . . .
>>>>
>>>> The fall semester for UI students, as well as NSA students, should
>>>> prove
>>>> very interesting and, more importanly, convenient.
>>>>
>>>> A parking space may cost a student only 21 cents per day. How much
>>>> is the
>>>> loss of that same parking space costing Main Street proprietors?
>>>>
>>>> Just another example of Moscow's pro-business city council.
>>>>
>>>> I guess we can always reopen Moscow's old livery stable at First and
>>>> Main.
>>>>
>>>> http://www.tomandrodna.com/Photos/1800s_FirstMain_Stable.jpg
>>>>
>>>> Seeya round town, Moscow
>>>>
>>>> Tom Hansen
>>>> Moscow, Idaho
>>>>
>>>> "The Pessimist complains about the wind, the Optimist expects it to
>>>> change
>>>> and the Realist adjusts his sails."
>>>>
>>>> - Unknown
>>>>
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