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<DIV><SPAN class=842075822-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Wayne,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=842075822-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>It will take me many years, but I will continue to try to understand
planning and zoning as I work to find the answers to (what I percieve as)
Moscow's problems. I'm fine with being out of synch with a final
authority, I think it (& me) needs to be questioned
periodically.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=842075822-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=842075822-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>I am curious as to your views of how (or if) current zoning ordinances
could be improved. Especially as a past and intimate participant in
P&Z, your views would be a great help for me to hear to get a broader
understanding.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=842075822-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=842075822-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>What in its nature requires P&Z to be technical and rule
driven? I understand the need to protect peoples' rights, but what makes
strict quantitative evaluation better than a qualitative one. It is easier
to find justification qualitatively, but I don't see it as the only appropriate
methodology.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=842075822-20052005><FONT face="Trebuchet MS" color=#0000ff
size=2>Mark</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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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Art Deco<BR><B>Sent:</B> Friday, May 20, 2005 3:07
PM<BR><B>To:</B> Vision 2020<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] RE: Letter to
Paul Kimmel<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<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>
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<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 PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF">"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
PTSIZE="10" FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><BR></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT>
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