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<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>Mark,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>I understand what you are saying. However,
planning and zoning is a very, technical, rule driven enterprise by its very
nature. Your point of view for many reasons is out of sync with the final
authority in this and similar cases, the courts and the massive body of case law
now extant. Simplifying, your viewpoint is called "The Rule of Man."
Zoning operates under "The Rule of Law."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>I humbly suggest that if you continue to be a
member of the Moscow Board of Adjustment that you take the time and effort to
study and to fully understand the current processes, practices, and legal
entrapments of planning and zoning.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4>It is not that communities cannot be positively
structured in certain ways, but how legally that is to be done to attempt
to construct what is best for the community and at the same time protecting
the citizens' right to due process, equal protection, and other
rights.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Verdana size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=FCS@moscow.com href="mailto:FCS@moscow.com">Mark Seman</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=DonaldH675@aol.com
href="mailto:DonaldH675@aol.com">DonaldH675@aol.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 20, 2005 12:41 PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] RE: Letter to Paul
Kimmel</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Rose,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>I interpret the Code as trying to be a tool for community development;
it allows what is positive and dis-allows the negative. Within the text
of the Code there is room for interpretation and if the wording of the
Code is found to be flawed (prohibits what is positive and allows the
negative) a mechanism for over-riding the "strict text" of the Code and
acknowledging the "intent" of the Code needs to be utilized. If this
mechanism is not utilized then the flawed Code (in-place) will be used (law of
the land) until the text becomes revised. This places the implementation
and interpretation of positive development as a function of document-adoption
timing rather than as a function of a document w/general concepts that is open
to flexible interpretation that is appropriate for the
time.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>My perception of current NSA / Co-op zoning issues is that they have
very little to do with the intent of the Code, but are focused more on
interpreting the "strict text" of the Code. I venture the vast majority
of Moscow's citizens would agree that both entities are appropriate land
uses. They both have greater positive impacts on the community, as a
whole, than negative. There is potential for both entities to be
disruptive if grown too large, but I do not see the legal wranglings
as solutions to resolve </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>these issues. It is mostly - sniping, a waste of time &
energy, and destructive to the community. If there are concerns for the
evolution of Moscow, then those issues should be specifically
addressed.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>One could also look at the current situation being very much the same
situation I describe: maybe the Code is general in concept and it's the
citizenry that is flexing its interpretation; one that is appropriate and of
the time. I don't know the best way, but I don't think this is the most
effective path to get Moscow where it wants to be. Time will reveal an
answer - either through city council or court action - of what the Code
means. I just don't perceive this process as a worthwhile method of
community development. Whether it is the community relying on a Code
that needs this type of process for interpretation or the Code relying on the
community for interpretation the current process is in a very sorry
state.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Mark</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=926202818-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<P><FONT size=2><IMG style="WIDTH: 226px; HEIGHT: 100px" alt=""
src="file:///G:/Images/FCS/office/fcs-logo01.jpg"
NOSEND="1"><BR></FONT><SMALL><SMALL><FONT size=2><FONT
face="Trebuchet MS"><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Mark Seman</SPAN>,
Architect<BR><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Heather Seman</SPAN>, Landscape
Architect<BR><STRONG></STRONG></FONT></FONT></SMALL><FONT
style="FONT-FAMILY: bradley hand itc"><SMALL><FONT face="Trebuchet MS"
size=2>1404 East 'F' Street Moscow, Idaho 83843<BR><STRONG>v</STRONG>
208-883-3276 / <STRONG>f
</STRONG>208-883-0112</FONT></SMALL></FONT></SMALL></P>
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size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B> DonaldH675@aol.com
[mailto:DonaldH675@aol.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, May 19, 2005 11:32
PM<BR><B>To:</B> FCS@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Letter to Paul
Kimmel<BR><BR></FONT></DIV><FONT id=role_document face=Georgia color=#000000
size=3>
<DIV>Hi Mark:</DIV>
<DIV>Could you clarify what you mean by:</DIV>
<DIV>"Unfortunately, there are citizens that are using the current ordinance
as a weapon of community destruction and because it is in-place, it is the
"law of the land."</DIV>
<DIV>Thanks,</DIV>
<DIV>Rose</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT lang=0 face=Verdana size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" PTSIZE="10">"One
cannot level one's moral lance at every evil in the universe. There are just
too many of them. But you can do something, and the difference between doing
something and doing nothing is everything." Daniel Berrigan<BR></FONT><FONT
lang=0 face=Arial color=#000000 size=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10"><BR></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT>
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