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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=blue face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:blue'>Hi-<br>
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I’ve stuck a few comments in response to some of the items in this post.
I hope they are helpful.<br>
<br>
John Dickinson<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'> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>bill bonte<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Sunday, May 28, 2006 10:30
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Re:
subdivisions (Was "Tribune Uncovers")</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Reference Mr. Harkins statement
that residents of the Rolling Hills</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>subdivisions have easy acess to
the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Joseph Street</st1:address></st1:Street>
ball parks and Latah</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Fairgrounds: It is true
that a wonderful stairway was constructed between</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on"><span
class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>6th street</span></font></span></st1:address></st1:Street><span
class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'> and <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Hathaway
Drive</st1:address></st1:Street> and another between Panorama and the new</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on"><span
class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Trinity</span></font></span></st1:PlaceName><span
class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:
9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Baptist</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Church</st1:PlaceType></span></font></span></st1:place><span
class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'>. These provide a walkable connection among the</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>three neighborhoods. A
further connection is possible to the Fairgrounds</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>through the Salsbury
neighborhoods (when the streets are completed). As</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>for now, bicycle and foot traffic
to the <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Joseph Street</st1:address></st1:Street>
ballparks from all</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>neighborhoods east of Paradise
Creek must the use <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Joseph</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Street</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Bridge</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>. </span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>This is one of the most dangerous
pedestrian rights of way in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.
Now</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>that the traffic has increased in
volume and speed it can be life</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>threatening to use this narrow
bridge. This is a good example of the</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>failure of city development
officials. Before approving the Salsbury</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>addition, they should have
required the bridge be replaced by a new, wider,</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>pedestrian friendly crossing, at
the developers' expense. It is obvious</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>that Joseph, east of Paradise
Creek will become a major arterial, but no</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>provision was made, and the
developer was not required to provide right of</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>way for future widening of the
road. <font color=blue><span style='color:blue'><br>
<br>
The bridge on Joseph was approved and funded sometime in the late 1990s. It has
not been constructed yet for a number of unconnected little reasons. The latest
was that someone questioned whether the bridge was old enough to be of historic
interest – and so that needed to be checked out (it is not an historic
bridge).</span></font></span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span style='font-size:9.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>The comprehensive plan does show
a connection from the Rollings Hills</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>subdivisions to the area of Good
Sam and Hordeman Pond, but this does not</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>currently exist. Residents
must walk or bike (as Bill London stated) to Mt</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>View Rd, and walk along it,
without sidewalks most of the way, to <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">D
street</st1:address></st1:Street>.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Once again, the developers of
Rolling Hills and the planned Windfall</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>subdivision east of <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mt.</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">View</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
between <st1:Street w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Rollings Hills Dr</st1:address></st1:Street>
and Paradise Creek,</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>shoud be required to provide
sidewalks on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mt.</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">View</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<font color=blue><span
style='color:blue'><br>
<br>
Developers are required to provide street improvements along any streets that
their development touches. When a development has an impact on streets and
roads that are farther away from the development, it is a difficult matter to
demand improvements. When there was talk of the high school moving beyond <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Mt.</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">View</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Park</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, that development
did include improvements beyond the borders of the development. But the
prospects of improvements were worked out with the developers and the city, I
don’t think we could have required the improvements. To some extent,
every development impacts the entire community and these costs (impacts) are
recovered in a variety of development costs, such as water meter installations.</span></font></span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>The Comprehensive plan shows a
public park at the end of Moser extending to</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>the south. This would
further connect the neighborhoods. The developers</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>must have paid into a fund to
contruct this park, but it has not been</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>started after more than 8 yrs of
Rolling Hills development. I am firmly against</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>private parks and doubt their
legality. With the property taxes I pay, I am within</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>my rights to expect a public park
in my neighborhood, as promised.<font color=blue><span style='color:blue'><br>
<br>
The park will exist. It will be a public park. I would like to see our
subdivision code include an addition to the parkland dedication section to
facilitate the early development of the parks within development. Currently the
parks are developed as the land that they exist on is developed. It makes
sense, in that a developed park with no streets of sidewalks to get to would be
less useful than one with infrastructure – but I still would like to see
parks developed early so that they could mature with the neighborhood.</span></font></span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>Developers already pay far too
little for the privilege of building in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.
They</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>can afford to put in right of way
connections as exist in your Frontier and Borah</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>neighborhoods.</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>On another subject - water.
Developers of residential lots should have increased</span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>water and sewer hookup fees, in
the $20,000-30,000 range per lot. This would </span></font></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span class=apple-style-span><font size=1 face=Helvetica><span
style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:Helvetica'>let the market regulate the
amount of new construction in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><br>
<br>
Developers don’t really pay development fees, home buyers do. There are many
conflicting goals here – affordable housing, charging fees that can be
substantiated as fair and equitable. I don’t think that higher fees are a
good idea – higher fees just for the sake of higher fees may not be
legal, would create a community where only the rich could live, and wouldn’t
stop growth (if that is your point).</span></font></span></font></span><font
color=blue><span style='color:blue'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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