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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Madam, I am pleased to see that my two cents has
not only got me the pleasure of this rollicking discourse, but spell check too.
My cup runneth over!</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The staff and students of N.S.A. pay taxes in all
the various and sundry ways you and I do, just not property tax on part of the
building. Are you suggesting that all tax exempt organizations be banned for
parking on city property?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I don't really understand why you keep bringing
this discussion around to parking. You know and I know and everyone reading this
knows that your beef isn't about having to walk half a block for your
mid-morning frapachino. To pretend other wise is pretty
disingenuous.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>G.Crabtree</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>P.S. Should you ever find yourself locked out of
your under- garments feel free to give my competitors a call. In fact I
insist.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </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=jampot@adelphia.net
href="mailto:jampot@adelphia.net">g. crabtree</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Cc:</B> <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">Vision2020 Moscow</A> ; <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 10:59
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Business
parking</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV><BR>On 14 Dec 2005, at 22:06, g. crabtree wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>Ms Opyr, It is amazing how consisantly you almost get it right.
Folks in apts. downtown park for days on end in the jackson st. lot and
still spare spaces. N.S.A. students come & go as well as shop downtown.
The only time parking seems to be difficult is at times N.S.A. is not in
session--farmers market & after 5:00 etc.<BR> <BR>Error number two
would be that I am not the owner of the Lock Shop. I am but the lowly cook
& bottle washer, But thanks for the promotion(aww and you pretend that
ya don't like me)<BR> <BR>Error number three. Faulty comparisons.
"Third Street Mall" parking lot is private property. Jackson st. is public.
Co-Op customers parked in front of my place of employment all the time, as
was their right. There are no signs advising customers of the shopping
center not too. The Co-Op was, all in all, a good neighbor and while parking
was sometimes tight, we did O.K. I expect it will be the same with our new
tennants.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Sirrah,<BR><BR>As long as we're counting errors,
tenants is spelled tenants, not tennants. The latter is a kind of beer, and
not a very good beer at that. I'm also wondering why a lock shop would require
a cook and bottle washer. Perhaps a key polisher would be more apt?
<BR><BR>Here's the poop, Scoop -- the Moscow Hotel pays property taxes. Lots
of property taxes. So, too, do the many retail businesses located in the CBD.
Until very recently, NSA was tax-exempt. If they win their appeal before the
IBTA, they will be tax-exempt once more. They have in the past and may in the
future pay absolutely nothing in the way of support for the Jackson Street
public parking lot. This ticks me off. This gets my goat. This is unacceptable
to me. If NSA were selling something other than recycled pap from old Thomas
L. Dixon novels, perhaps they might be reclassified as a business rather than
a college. But they're not, and so they are in violation of city ordinance.
Again I ask, why should NSA expect special treatment? Why should the City of
Moscow rewrite zoning code to fit the needs of the one and only illegal
occupant of the CBD at the expense of all of the legal
occupants?<BR><BR>Either you can't answer that, Gee Crabtree, or you won't.
Unlike Tom, I don't expect an answer; that's because I don't think you have
one.<BR><BR>Joan Opyr/Auntie Establishment<BR>www.joanopyr.com<BR><BR>PS: I'm
not pretending to dislike you. I do dislike you. I wouldn't use the Lock Shop
if I were shut out of my own underwear. What I'd do is call Christ Church and
ask them to loan me their safecracker. (Re: Vera White's column of December
9th.) Just out of curiosity, I wonder why Doug thought there might be a
safecracker in his congregation? I don't doubt that there are plenty of
crackers in the Kirk, but are any of them safe?
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