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<DIV><SPAN class=358482218-12042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>I hate
to break this to everyone, but even the professors and administration can't
spell.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=358482218-12042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>My
favorite memo:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=358482218-12042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=358482218-12042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>"A
group of high school students will be eaten at Wallace Cafeteria at
12:30."</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=358482218-12042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=358482218-12042006><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>To
which I replied, "Shall we serve them with barbecue sauce or a more upscale
lemon cream sauce?"</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT face=Tahoma
size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>Joan Opyr<BR><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:56
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Gabriel Rench<BR><B>Cc:</B> 'Moscow Vision
2020'<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Complaints Filed Against Boarding
Houses<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:46 AM, Gabriel Rench
wrote:<BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE>This complaint list only people from Christ Church or Trinity. I
graduated<BR>from U of I and I can't tell you how many people I new that
boarded with a<BR>family that went to U of I (especially exchanged
students). Every city I<BR>have ever lived in I new of some one boarding
with a family. This is not out<BR>of the ordinary. Don you are doing a good
job making us look like the<BR>friendly neighbor and the Intoleristas a
little more intolerant. Keep up<BR>the good work soldier! Cheers!
<BR>Gabriel Rench<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>You graduated from the U of I and
you spell like this? Go back, young man, go back! You seem to have slept
through some classes.<BR><BR>As Omie Drawhorn noted in her April 11th Daily
News article, Moscow City Code allows for one -- ONE -- boarder in a
single-family residence. The owner of the house must apply for and receive a
conditional use permit, first proving that there is adequate parking and that
the addition of ONE boarder "will not disrupt the character of the
neighborhood." Moscow code does not allow for multiple boarders in a single
family home, period. Every city you've ever lived in doesn't come into this
argument, Gabe; this isn't London, Beijing, or Timbuktu. The only zoning
ordinance that applies here is Moscow zoning ordinance, and, quelle surprise,
Doug Wilson and his followers are once again in consistent and deliberate
violation of that ordinance. The pattern here is not one of religious
persecution, no matter how hard you try to spin this pathetic fallacy. The
pattern is that Christ Church and its affiliates believe that they are above
the law, hence the perpetual demands for special treatment and the insistence
on a blind eye in enforcement. <BR><BR>Is there not one, single, solitary
thing that you can and will do by the secular book? Must you jump in line,
thumb your noses, and cut corners everywhere? You call us intolerant; I call
you obnoxious. All you need to do is obey the same laws as the rest of us.
That's it. No one wants to run you out of town; we simply ask that you respect
the same laws that we are obliged to respect, the laws that make it possible
for us all to be good neighbors. You are not good neighbors. Good neighbors
don't cram their houses full of transient students, trampling on the lawns,
the patience, and the good will of those who live around them. Good neighbors
don't take up retail parking to which they are not entitled and for which they
pay no taxes. Good neighbors make an effort to play by the rules; they don't
shriek religious persecution when the rules they've chosen to ignore are
finally enforced. Good neighbors don't demand that the goal posts be moved
because they've failed to score the extra point. <BR><BR>Just for the record,
Gabe and others, when Chris Schlect of New St. Andrews was told by the city in
the year 2000 that New St. Andrews could not continue to operate out of his
living room, the city also made mention of the fact that if NSA wanted to run
student boarding houses, they would need to apply for conditional use permits.
NSA has had six years to get its house(s) in order. Clearly, they have chosen
not to. Why the pretense that these assorted zoning complaints are a bolt from
the blue? I'm sorry to say you asked for it, but you asked for it.<BR><BR>Joan
Opyr/Auntie Establishment<BR>www.joanopyr.com<BR><BR>PS: Hands up all who pay
taxes on their lavish boarding house incomes?<BR>PPS: Someone probably ought
to look into that, but it won't be <B><U>this</U></B> good
soldier.<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>