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<DIV>Thats whats called diversity I believe...but we shouldn't make decisions
without knowing that not all of us have the same needs.</DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Parking</DIV>
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<DIV>I can't even imagine these people you surveyed, but then again, all of my
friends are anti-Wal-Mart downtown supporters.</DIV>
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<DIV>I shop at One World, the Co-Op, Bookpeople, the Natural Abode, The
Breakfast Club, Hodgins, Paradise Creek Bicycle, the Moscow Wine
Company, Howard Hughes and the new bagel place. Not to mention the Farmer's
Market. If I had more disposible income I would go to the Red Door too. I see
my friends at all these places, so I know they frequent these places, too.
Despite having three small children, I am usually on foot or on bicycle.</DIV>
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<DIV>I do drive sometmes, and have never had to park more than three blocks
from my destination.</DIV>
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<DIV>Penny P.<BR><BR><B><I>Pat Kraut <pkraut@moscow.com></I></B>
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have been taking my own private survey about downtown:<BR><BR>Do you shop
downtown?<BR>For the most part the answer has been no.<BR><BR>Why:<BR>2
'Parking'<BR>The rest 'nothing down there I want'.<BR>I appears most of my
friends get their books online. They eat elsewhere and<BR>don't need drugs
or other professional services that are downtown.<BR><BR>2 go to Wild
Women<BR><BR>4 Get drugs at Hodgins and do not have trouble finding
parking.<BR><BR>Some including myself eat at the Breakfast Club or coffee at
anyone of the<BR>multiple choices and go to the Goodwill. And as we are all
aware the<BR>Goodwill is moving so I might be going less often...but that
craving for a<BR>huckleberry pancake can be overwhelming! I do not have
trouble parking but I<BR>am willing to walk a block or two also and it isn't
that far, ever.<BR><BR>What could they put down there that you would shop
down there?<BR>Walmart was one answer! Most couldn't think of anything they
need that would<BR>make it necessary for them to go for just one
item.<BR><BR>One of my friends with two knee replacements no longer goes to
the farmers<BR>market because of a lack of parking. As I said earlier maybe
what we need<BR>are more handicap spots.<BR><BR>I have not found NSA to be
the problem because of those who do go to the<BR>farmers market all
mentioned how grateful they were for the use of the<BR>bathrooms.<BR><BR>I
do not think the big issue taken before the City Council has
been<BR>taxes...it has been about parking.<BR><BR>I am going to keep asking
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