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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Miss Opyr, You and Mr. Hansen seem to have
overlooked the line in my communiqué that read "What he did with it
subsequently..." however it seems clear to me that further discussion would be
an intrusion on the little mutual admiration society that you and your chums
have going here, and far be it from me to try and disrupt your quaint little
notions of "fairness."</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Gee Crabtree</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>P.S. With regard to the business proposal you
mentioned, wouldn't this simply be a change in scope as opposed to
function?</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=joanopyr@moscow.com href="mailto:joanopyr@moscow.com">Joan Opyr</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=thansen@moscow.com
href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">Tom Hansen</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=jampot@adelphia.net
href="mailto:jampot@adelphia.net">'g. crabtree'</A> ; <A
title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 12, 2005 6:00
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] City Council's
selective compassion</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On 12 Dec 2005, at 06:51, Tom Hansen wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>Mr. Crabtree -<BR><BR>Yes, Dan Mack could have done whatever he
wanted with his property (and<BR>here's the point you missed), as long as he
received formal governmental<BR>approval. In this case, he needed both
P&Z and City Council to grant him a<BR>variance and approve his
blueprint, which they did. However, both bodies<BR>could have said "no
deal." They had no obligation to grant his variance or<BR>to approve his
blueprint.<BR><BR>Similarly, City Council has no obligation to remedy NSA's
third zoning<BR>violation. They could serve notice and evict them, just as
Dan Mack did to<BR>his tenants. City Council could say to NSA, "Your
students impinge on your<BR>neighbors' parking, and this cuts into their
ability to make an honest buck.<BR>Get lost."<BR><BR>But as noted, two out
of three councilpersons who granted Dan Mack approval<BR>to demolish
low-income family homes are now crying "equity" and "fairness"<BR>for NSA.
Worse yet, they intend to penalize NSA's neighbors by depleting<BR>their
parking supply at the expense of their customer base, which cuts
into<BR>their ability to make an honest buck, just so they can be fair and
equitable<BR>to NSA. Now, does that sound fair to you?<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Tom
Hansen is right on target, as I suspect Gee Crabtree knows full well. What he
doesn't want to address is the clear case of differential treatment accorded
David Williams and the other evicted residents of the Renaissance Trailer Park
and City Council's attempts to bend over backward to avoid inconveniencing
Doug Wilson. One rule for the rich and another for the poor -- this is my
complaint.<BR><BR>About property ownership and doing exactly what one pleases
with the property one owns -- my partner and I own ten acres and a ranch
house. Now, I don't care for cattle, and sheep are just a damned nuisance, but
I've got a great idea. I was just watching a movie starring Dolly Parton and
Burt Reynolds called "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas." Perhaps you've
seen it? I know that Idaho's last bordello, a place up in Wallace, closed in
the mid-1980s. There's clearly a business opportunity here, and so I think
I'll just add fifteen or twenty red velvet bedrooms onto my little house, and
then I'll troll the perfectly adequate Jackson Street parking lot for some
likely-looking ladies. I'll offer them the chance to sell themselves not just
to one man for shotgun house, a cartload of kids, and the "beauty of
submission:" I'll offer them the opportunity to market their wares to many men
for big bucks, regular health screenings, and guaranteed respectful and decent
treatment. (To ensure this, I'll hire a couple of ginormous bouncers. These
bouncers will have to be, like my friend Dan Carscallen, at least five-feet
twenty inches tall -- guys who could lift the front end of an F-350 and hold
it up while I changed the tires.) <BR><BR>You don't approve, Gee Crabtree? Why
not? It's my property, and what's more, this is biblically sound stuff. This
is the world's oldest profession! I'll take my plan to the county, and if
anyone dares to say me nay, I'll claim religious persecution. Hell's bells,
what's wrong with this world: can't a gal make a dishonest buck on her own
ten-acre ranch? No? Hmm. Looks to me like the county has some power over what
I do with my own property after all. In fact, it looks to me like they have a
say in terms of zoning, conditional use permits, digging new wells (the Moscow
Chicken Ranch would need lots of water for those multiple hot tubs), as well
as over the sort of business deemed suitable for operation on the Genesee Troy
Road. Remember Daisy May and the Topless Carwash? Those were her boobs, that
was her water hose and soap -- wasn't she within her legal rights to flash the
one and spray the other without government interference? I said yes; Doug
Wilson said no. So what's he bitching about now? He was all for a strict
interpretation of city ordinance back then. Bizarre, really, when you think of
the positive effect Ms. Daisy's car wash must have had on the downtown parking
situation . . . <BR><BR>Here, in a nutshell, is the analogy between David
Williams, Dan Mack, the Renaissance Trailer Park evictions and Doug Wilson's
NSA: Dan Mack lied through his teeth to the County, the City Council, the
Palouse Water Conservation folk, and his own tenants. He swore on a stack of
Bibles that he wanted to drill a new well so his tenants would have water; he
told the City and the County that he would create 26 new low-income housing
units; he asked to rent land from the County for pennies so that he could
comply with the green zone requirements. Once he got what he wanted, he kicked
his poor tenants out to the curb. Was this legal? Yes. Was it fair? No. Did
the City and the County have to go along with it? No. They could have insisted
on guarantees, proof that he wasn't a complete and utter lying
shmuck.<BR><BR>The residents of Renaissance Trailer Court appealed to the City
and the County for relief. That relief was denied. Mack was within his rights
as a landlord, and the City and County upheld those rights. Now, Doug Wilson,
like David Williams, is asking for relief. He's asking the City to suspend
enforcement of its zoning laws in order to avoid inconveniencing himself and
New St. Andrews College. And, unlike the residents of Dan Mack's trailer
court, Doug is enjoying considerable success. He has Jon Kimberling, Peg
Hamlett, and JoAnn Mack bending over backwards to avoid doing to Doug what was
done to the 14 families at Renaissance -- forced relocation. My question is
why? Why the differential treatment? Why is Doug Wilson more important than
those 14 families? The City is well within its legal rights to evict New St.
Andrews from the Central Business District.<BR><BR>But money talks. Doug's got
it; the Renaissance Trailer Court residents did not.<BR><BR>Joan Opyr/Auntie
Establishment<BR>www.joanopyr.com<?/bigger><?fontfamily><?param Helvetica><BR><?/fontfamily><?bigger><BR>PS:
If Peg Hamlett really is a "lifelong Democrat," then I hope she'll wake up and
smell the injustice. Siding with the rich and voting against the poor is not a
traditional Democratic value. I would also note that it's pretty poor
sportsmanship to blame your election opponent for your own political slips.
Lie down with Republicans, wake up with
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