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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Crabtree,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Hello again. I’m
writing to address your criticism of J Ford (copied below); I wish to primarily
defend her, and only secondarily address what appear to be misconceptions on
your part. This letter, as I believe you know, was a play on Atwood’s
original letter; but Atwood’s original letter was directed at what J Ford
would probably consider ‘innocent’ parties, or at least not worthy
of the sort of letter they received. And so, the play on words here does not
assume that this letter would be fully true if it was in fact literally
intended; it is centrally, as I take it, ‘how does it feel back at you.’
In this respect, if you didn’t favor the original letter then you would have
the freedom to enjoy this playful satire regardless of what the city comes up
with on parking statistics and regardless of whether or not NSA could justly
and wisely be kicked off the block anytime soon. Whether or not NSA is
stinkfully arrogant about any response to their code violation will not be
decided on the basis of parking statistics; so it seems you may have missed the
point of this posting series. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>But even taken literally,
the letter focuses just on the parking issue, which you grant was the central
focus of concern. The fact that the concern was so focused suggests that
this is not necessarily some conspiracy, but rather a couple business owners
who claim to be losing hundreds of thousands of dollars do to the parking issue—as
I understand it anyway.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Michael Metzler<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>Ms.Woolf, It was a pleasure
to meet you at the meeting Tuesday night. As one of the most vocal (at
least on this forum) detractors of NSA, I was very surprised that you didn't
take the opportunity to educate the BOA as to the evils of the NSA. You complain
that the board doesn't listen to the people and yet you gave them nothing to
hear. The overwhelming majority of the testimony that they did hear was in
favor of the collage remaining right where they are. The few detractors that
did speak could only muster the parking issue as the reason for a denial.
An issue that has been shown to be a false since the school uses no more
parking than any other potential user of that property. This is not just my
biased contention, but the result of statistics provided by the city staff.
What outcome did you expect the board to produce with that kind of input? I've
got to assume that if a better argument could have been concocted, it would
have been brought forward. It wasn't.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>With regard to the whimsical
letter that you thoughtfully reproduce for us here on the V. I would find it
far more persuasive, informative, and entertaining if it had some actual
signatures attached, and would be happier if, as a downtown merchant mine, by
implication, wasn't.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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