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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Again: What about U of I students who
board with families, foreign exchange students, Mormons who come up here for
their mission and according to you Moscow is the only city in the whole united
states that would not allow boarding? <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> is elite. Also as my friend
Deacon put it: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>“</span></font><font face=Symbol><span style='font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font>
Why is a group of three or four roommates, one of whom owns the house, a
violation? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font> Why are people in Potlatch or
on the Troy highway in violation of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>
city code? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face=Symbol><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Symbol'>·</span></font> Why are people who rent a
separate apartment in a house that is zoned for such a purpose considered
boarders?”<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I understand that following an argument has never been you or Wayne Art
Deco Fox’s strong suite, but we have been prejudicially targeted for this…
and this is why you blend weed and zoning all into one basket. Cheers!<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Gabriel Rench </span></font><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> Joan Opyr
[mailto:joanopyr@moscow.com] <br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, April 12, 2006
10:56 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Gabriel Rench<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> '<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> Vision 2020'<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020]
Complaints Filed Against Boarding Houses</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><font size=3
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>On Apr 12, 2006, at 8:46
AM, Gabriel Rench wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>This complaint list only people from <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><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." <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> 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 <st1:City w:st="on">London</st1:City>,
<st1:City w:st="on">Beijing</st1:City>, or <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Timbuktu</st1:place></st1:City>. The only zoning ordinance that
applies here is <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
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 <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Christ</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
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><span
style='font-weight:bold'>this</span></u></b> good soldier.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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