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<DIV><FONT size=4>Dan writes:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2>Anyone else hear that
sucking sound from the west?<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#800000 size=2>who's next?<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#800000 size=2>DC</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>___________________________________________________________</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2>What I hear much louder is
the giant roar of ineptitude and incompetence from the Moscow City Community
Development and City Manager's offices.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2>James Toyota is not the
only auto dealership with space limitations, and it is not the only Moscow
business wishing to move to larger facilities but unable to stay in
Moscow and do so.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2>A more aware and competent
planning function would have recognized the need for various kinds of commercial
space long ago, talked seriously to the P & Z board and city council
about it, and then generated some alternative proposals through suggested
changes in the comprehensive plan and zoning ordinance for consideration.
This is called<STRONG><FONT size=4> </FONT><FONT color=#0000ff
size=5>planning</FONT></STRONG>. [In theory, that is part of what
that Community Development office is supposed to do.]
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2>It is <STRONG><FONT
color=#0000ff size=5>not</FONT></STRONG> planning to wait for developers to
submit their proposals which are driven by purely private motives rather than a
combination of public and private motives, and then have a mess as we saw with
the WalMart process and the mess we are now witnessing with migration across the
state line for lack of acceptable commercial space.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2>But the ineptitude does end
at the Community Development and City Manager's offices. The P&Z
Board, city council, and especially past city councils, have been irresponsibly
lax. Some of this laxness and naiveté may have been due to the lack of
training provided to these groups by the Community Development office, whose own
lack of training and expertise is quite evident. The buck doesn't stop
with the Community Development office. This has been an obvious
problem for a long time, but irresponsibly neither the city manager nor the past
and present mayors have taken any effective action.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2>If the current city council
and mayor does not recognize the seriousness of these problem and take
expedited action, I would guess that a sizable part of the electorate
are not going to be happy and will express that unhappiness at the next city
election.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2>The county cannot be let
off the hook in this regard either. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT size=4><BR>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<BR><A
href="mailto:deco@moscow.com">deco@moscow.com</A><BR></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000 size=2>PS: I hope that
the city does not compound this migration problem by enabling it even further by
agreeing to provide water, sewer, etc to those businesses located or locating in
another state and not paying taxes for their endeavors in this one. I am
sure that would be the last straw for many voters, and would be like practicing
birth control by self-mutilation.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=gweitz@moscow.com href="mailto:gweitz@moscow.com">Jerry Weitz</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=areaman@moscow.com href="mailto:areaman@moscow.com">Dan
Carscallen</A> ; <A title=vision2020@moscow.com
href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, October 12, 2006 10:50 PM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] Moscow-Pullman Highway going
commercial</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Dan, a few month ago we contacted the Hawkins project
manager for information over citing a dental office in the development. We
asked a number of questions and received answers. They are very serious
and beleive they can handle the water issue. Walmart in not in the
running, Lowes is. Two other majors are committed and wish not to be known
publicly at this time. Do you believe that the development can be
stopped? Jerry At 12:55 PM 10/11/06, Dan Carscallen wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#800000 size=2>Anyone else hear that sucking sound from the
west?<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS" color=#800000
size=2>who's next?<BR></FONT> <BR><FONT face="Comic Sans MS"
color=#800000 size=2>DC<BR></FONT>
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<DD><FONT face=tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR>
<DD>From:</B> vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [<A
href="mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com"
eudora="autourl">mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com</A>] On Behalf Of
</B>Bill London<BR>
<DD>Sent:</B> Wednesday, October 11, 2006 10:44 AM<BR>
<DD>To:</B> vision2020@moscow.com<BR>
<DD>Subject:</B> [Vision2020] Moscow-Pullman Highway going
commercial<BR><BR></FONT>
<DD><FONT face=arial size=2>According to a legal notice regarding stormwater
pollution prevention in the Daily News (page 9B, Tuesday, Oct. 10), the
James Hill Toyota dealership is moving from Moscow to the Washington side of
the line.<BR>
<DD>The dealership has purchased 13 acres on the Moscow-Pullman Highway, on
the south side of the highway, between the highway and the creek, about a
mile from Moscow.<BR>
<DD>The present plan is to develop 6 acres as the Toyota dealership.<BR>
<DD>There goes the neighborhood.....<BR>
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