<div>I can't even imagine these people you surveyed, but then again, all of my friends are anti-Wal-Mart downtown supporters.</div> <div> </div> <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> <div> </div> <div>I do drive sometmes, and have never had to park more than three blocks from my destination.</div> <div> </div> <div>Penny P.<BR><BR><B><I>Pat Kraut <pkraut@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">I 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 questions.<BR><BR>=======================================================<BR>List services made available by First Step Internet, <BR>serving the communities of the Palouse since 1994. <BR>http://www.fsr.net <BR>mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<BR>=======================================================<BR></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><p> 
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