I am in full agreement with MCA on this. I am tired of businesses coming into Moscow and creating jobs, raising wages, and providing opportunities for the people here.<br> <br> This 16 page regulatory document will send a clear message to businesses like Home Depot, Wal-Mart, Schweitzer, Micron, and other institutions that provide wages to the residents in the area that we don't want them here.<br> <br> Establishing 16 pages of new and "special" laws and regulations for some business that provide a high number of jobs, we will assure victory over the people that want jobs and to pay less property taxes. Whitman County is where these business people will have to give their taxes and create jobs.<br> <br> YEAH MCA! I am with you. Stop business from coming here to Moscow and Latah, we already have enough good paying jobs at least $5.15 an hour. <br> <br> Best,<br> <br> _DJA<br> <br> PS, I hope you know I was being sarcastic, there is always one
in the crowd. <br><br><b><i>Bill London <london@moscow.com></i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1561" name="GENERATOR"> <style></style> <div><font face="Arial" size="2"> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Dear <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Commissioners</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> Kimmell, Nelson and Stroschein:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The
Moscow Civic Association (“MCA”) is in favor of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Latah</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType> adopting <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City></st1:place>’s Large Scale Retail Ordinance (“LSRO”) for the Area of City Impact.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The LSRO was written by a team of community members with the goal of mitigating negative impacts that retail outlets 40,000 square feet or larger (“Big Box Stores”) would likely bring to our growing community.<span style=""> </span>Retail outlets of this size are cropping up all over the country with a variety of consequences involving
traffic, noise, storm water, aesthetics, etc.<span style=""> </span>Communities across the country are recognizing the need to pass ordinances to eliminate or mitigate the adverse impacts of Big Box Stores.<span style=""> </span>For this reason, the MCA supported the city’s efforts to mitigate these problems by adopting the LSRO.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Planning and zoning are reasonable and desirable activities of local governing bodies.<span style=""> </span>We do not endorse the view that ordinances placing reasonable requirements on businesses represent an assault on the free market or discourage beneficial development.<span
style=""> </span>We believe that the LSRO regulates development wisely, in a community-friendly and beneficial manner that protects the property rights of developers, adjacent landowners and the surrounding community.<span style=""> </span>We wish to encourage this type of development.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoBodyTextIndent" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We believe it is not only justifiable but necessary in our role as responsible citizens and as community participants placing reasonable requirements on retail establishments larger than 40,000 square feet.<span style=""> </span>To mitigate the adverse spillover effects that come with great size is an absolutely appropriate protection of the property
rights of the surrounding landowners and community.<span style=""> </span>We believe that the LSRO does that adequately by defining large scale retail outlets as conditional uses in the Motor Business zoning district and by placing specific requirements on such establishments to address the following areas of concern:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Site location<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Noise<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">City Services and City infrastructure
impacts<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Storm water quality<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Traffic Impacts<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Building abandonment<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We agree with the requirements provided by the LSRO.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.25in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">As stated in the first five and a half pages of the sixteen page document, there are many reasons to adopt such an ordinance.<span style=""> </span>We would like to draw your attention to the following paragraph of the ordinance (p. 5), which highlights the beneficial purpose of the LSRO in protecting the property rights of the nearby property owners and the community itself:<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Whereas, the City is currently without design review
regulations or any discretionary<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">review and public hearing process specific to retail establishments in excess of forty<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">thousand (40,000) square feet which preserve<span style=""> </span>and/or enhance the general appearance<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">of building design and construction; preserve the historical character and significance of<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the
community; coordinate onsite vehicular and non-vehicular traffic circulation patterns <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">within adjacent transportation systems; minimize visual impact; provide for and protect<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">existing light, air, solar access, and orientation, privacy, views, and vistas by the proper<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">and efficient location of building sites and design layout; provide adequate usable open<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;
font-family: 'Times New Roman';">space in a manner appropriate to the development and uses of lands, and protect and<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">preserve wildlife, stream, natural topography and other desirable natural features and<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">qualities such as skyline, ridge tops, knoll ridges, established trees and shrub masses,<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">topsoil, streambeds and banks, drainage swales; promote aesthetic harmonizing with<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span
style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">the environment adjacent to development; enable requirements for traffic studies,<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">market studies, and impact studies; and enable imposition of mitigation measures;<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Without the LSRO in place, the citizens of our community have no protection from the adverse spillover effects that unregulated large retail establishments will bring to nearby neighborhoods, to the detriment of residents’ property values and quality of life.<span style="">
</span>This threat is something we can mitigate through the LSRO while preserving economic opportunity, enhancing property values and quality of life, and protecting and balancing developer’s property rights with those of the impacted neighbors and community.<span style=""> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">We hope you will take these comments to heart and pass the LSRO for the Area of City Impact.<span style=""> </span>Please protect and preserve the quality of life for <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Latah</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"
style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Sincerely, <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p> </o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Bruce Livingston<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">President, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> Civic Association <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';">On Behalf of the <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> Civic Association Board of Directors</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><o:p></o:p></span></div></font></div>=======================================================<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>=======================================================</blockquote><br><p> 
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