<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Speaking of who started it, what was the origin of the NSA zoning mess. I have read vision2020 and the daily news for the past 2 years and I still am not clear on two points.<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>1.<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Didn't the realtor who sold the building to NSA know that the planned use was a violation of the zoning ordinance? Shouldn't she bear some (financial) responsibility for this mess?</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>2.<SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN>Why didn't the city intervene and forbid the use of the property as a college. Did they know what was to be done with the property or was NSA's opening a surprise? If I open a small grocery store in my garage, zoned R-2, I'm sure I'd be issued a zoning violation citation and forced to close.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I seems so simple to me: the CBD is not zoned for a college, close them down!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Bill Bonte</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Dec 16, 2005, at 12:51 PM, Joan Opyr wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Geneva" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Geneva">I will not play "who started it" with either Kathy Sprague or G. Crabtree.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm tired of the latter and surprised by the former.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>As I recall, once upon a time, I made a comparison between the treatment received by the residents of Dan Mack's trailer park and the special treatment demanded by (and, it would seem, likely to be given to) Doug Wilson's NSA.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Mr. Crabtree objected on the grounds that Dan Mack had the right to evict those 14 families because the trailer park was his property -- a fact I didn't dispute but that was really beside the point.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>That was the beginning of this online saga, and it should probably have been the end of it.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Alas that it wasn't.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I accept full responsibility for my part in that, and if it's any comfort to you, Kathy, I am done.</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Geneva; min-height: 21px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT face="Geneva" size="5" style="font: 16.0px Geneva">Now, go and console G. 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