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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, if we get the NSA out and some other business
goes in then when we have trouble finding a parking spot we have no complaints?
I have lived here since 1962 and can tell you that the complaints about parking
are not new. It is one of the reasons the UI let the mall go in and that didn't
help either. The 1912 building razed would have provided some
spots!</FONT></DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=joanopyr@earthlink.net href="mailto:joanopyr@earthlink.net">Joan
Opyr</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020 Moscow</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=lpall@moscow.com
href="mailto:lpall@moscow.com">Linda Pall</A> ; <A title=nchaney@moscow.com
href="mailto:nchaney@moscow.com">Nancy Chaney</A> ; <A
title=lblackburn@turbonet.com href="mailto:lblackburn@turbonet.com">Lois
Blackburn</A> ; <A title=johnd@moscow.com href="mailto:johnd@moscow.com">John
Dickinson</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:03
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Business
parking</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>On 14 Dec 2005, at 05:56, g. crabtree wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>With regard to my brief answer to the question of allowing
N.S.A. the right to have it's students and staff park downtown, I really
don't see how it could confuse you. It strikes me as massively unfair to
single them out for some kind of burdensome parking restriction. All
businesses downtown us up parking to one degree or another. Restaurants,
coffee shops, and apartments all require parking. I suspect that residents
at the Moscow Hotel use up far more parking in the Jackson st. lot than the
school does and there is still plenty of left over
spaces.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>The reason NSA should be "singled out" in terms of
parking, Mr. Crabtree, is because NSA is not a business. It is a college. Its
students don't park for an hour and then leave; they come and park for several
hours. Some park in the Jackson lot all day. The businesses dependent on the
Jackson lot -- Bookpeople, Paradise Creek Bicycles, Sweet Peas and Sage, the
Wild Hare, and the various restaurants in the Central Business District need
that parking for their customers. If people can't find parking downtown, then
people will stop shopping downtown. They'll go instead to the mall.<BR><BR>U
of I students and employees pay for the privilege of parking on campus. NSA
students pay nothing to park in the Jackson Street lot. What's more, their
parking is subsidized by the tax-paying businesses downtown. This is unfair;
it's detrimental to downtown retail; and it's a pain in the ass for both
customers and shop-keepers. According to city zoning ordinance, NSA should not
be in the Central Business District. If the code is amended to allow them to
stay, then something must be done to ensure that NSA's 150 to 200 students
(their projected growth) don't clog up parking for retail. Surely as the owner
of the Lock Shop in the Third Street Mall, you can appreciate having your
business parking hogged up by non-customers. For years, Food Co-Op customers
parked in front of your shop despite the clear signs asking them not to. (I
didn't park in front of your shop; I respected your signs advising me not to.
I also didn't want to be towed.)<BR><BR>BTW, I apologize for suggesting you
might benefit from a dose of Fletcher's Castoria. My friend, Dr. Seuss, has
advised me that re: the Mack Trailer Park evictions, constipation is not your
problem -- it's just that your heart is four sizes too small. The good doctor
suggests a diet of Roast Beast and a rousing chorus of "Bah-hoo Doray" with
Cindy Lou Who.<BR><BR>Joan Opyr/Auntie
Establishment<BR>www.joanopyr.com<BR><BR><?/bigger>
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