[Vision2020] deluxe parking accommodations for some-payed forby others

[Gary Crabtree]

That being the case, why not leave it up to the individual business to make the decision
to woo you and your bulging wallet in by providing hermetically sealed, air conditioned, gem encrusted bike accommodations?

Should the city, with its unerring eye for economic bounty, decide to dip into its coffers and build a bike rack on every corner of every block taxpayers would howl and rightly so.
Even though such a scheme would have the ultimate beneficiaries paying at least a portion of the cost and result in a similar number or parking slots, voters would see it for the wasteful boondoggle that it is. Forcing the expense off onto private property owners doesn't make it any better.

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From: "Robert Dickow" <dickow at uidaho.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 1:05 PM
To: "'the lockshop'" <lockshop at pull.twcbc.com>; <vision2020 at moscow.com>
Cc: <dcarscallen at ci.moscow.id.us>; <tbrown at ci.moscow.id.us>; <wmsteed at ci.moscow.id.us>; <sscott at ci.moscow.id.us>; <nchaney at ci.moscow.id.us>; <wkrauss at ci.moscow.id.us>; <tlamar at ci.moscow.id.us>
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] deluxe parking accommodations for some-paid for by others

> Curiously, Instead of 'government intrusion into business' I thought it was
> quite the opposite. I thought the bike parking issue was for the benefit of
> the business, not the bikers. Heck, if I knew I could tie my bike up in such
> a parking facility I would do 100% of my shopping downtown by bike. Usually
> in the past I would tie my bike to a tree or post, lacking other handy
> facilities, and discover that my lock chain didn't fit around the tree...
> blah blah blah, so there was a disincentive. Businesses... think of the
> growth of business in town!
> 
> Bob Dickow, troublemaker
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]
> On Behalf Of the lockshop
> Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 9:39 AM
> To: vision2020 at moscow.com
> Cc: wkrauss at ci.moscow.id.us; tbrown at ci.moscow.id.us;
> wmsteed at ci.moscow.id.us; sscott at ci.moscow.id.us; nchaney at ci.moscow.id.us;
> dcarscallen at ci.moscow.id.us; tlamar at ci.moscow.id.us
> Subject: [Vision2020] deluxe parking accommodations for some-paid for by
> others
> 
> Does anyone other then myself wonder why the city in its infinite wisdom 
> doesn't spend a little more time worrying about city property and assets and
> 
> a little less time trying to dream up ways to inflict itself on private 
> property owners, developers, and businesses? I'm speaking of course about 
> the councils latest intrusion into the lives of its business community, the 
> proposed bike parking ordnance. <snip>...
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