<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV style="text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; ">When I first read the City Council agenda I laughed when I saw item 6 (pasted below). Oh my, I said, how sad. It looks like someone is planning a gated community. How insecure these people must be to want a gated community here in Moscow. Why? When I read Ms. Bafus' post (also below), I laughed some more and said, I should have known. But my concern isn't so much about a gated community but the proposed bending of the rules for it. The lot sizes have been changed, that doesn't seem to be so much of a problem but the last line of #6 bothers me. The "public street standards have been waived due to the fact that the internal roadways are to be private." This seems wrong on several levels. The city of Moscow, Latah County and the state of Idaho all have their building and planning codes and regulations for a reason. I may not agree with all of them, but they are our standards. All roadways within the city should be built to the current standards. This allows for greater traffic control and movement of safety vehicles (ambulances, fire trucks, etc). What if the current owners decide to pack it in and move elsewhere? What if they decide to break up the gated community and allow it to become a 'normal' part of the community? Then we would have yet another section of town with narrow and inefficient streets. Where else will the building codes and rules be altered to ease someone else's burden? Sidewalks? Plumbing? Electric? And when the next developer comes along and says, "Well, you changed the rules for them, why not for me?" Where does it stop? I urge the city council to not waive the public street standards. I urge the city leaders (including, and maybe especially, the city managers) to stop playing fast and loose with the city codes and zoning issues. Consistency and fair, unbiased enforcement of the building codes should be the order of the day. Instead it appears that spot zoning and the waiving of building standards have become the norm. </DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; ">It has been hard to write this post and not digress into a tirade about the lack of intelligent planning on the part of Moscow's city leaders of the past two decades. I think the city desperately needs some sort of master plan for growth and development. Otherwise we will continue to grow in the sprawling and disconnected manner of the recent past. And that ain't good for anyone except maybe a few developers and contractors.</DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; "><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; ">SB</DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -72px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-align: justify; text-indent: -72px;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 72px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">6.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9.3px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">Public Hearing – Greensides Hill Preliminary Plat – Andrew Ackerman</SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="text-indent: 0px;text-align: justify; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 24px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14.7px;">On January 10, 2007, the Planning & Zoning Commission recommended approval of a Preliminary Plat for division of approximately 8.2 acres of land into 37 single family lots on the west side of N. Polk Extension called Greensides Hill. The land currently consists of three parcels, each developed with a single family residence and zoned medium density, single family residential (R-2). The proposal Preliminary Plat has associated with it an approved Preliminary Planned Unit Development. The R-2 Zoning District has a 7,000 square foot minimum lot size for single-family residential lots. Via the PUD process the lots have been permitted to be reduced from the minimum standard. Additionally, public street standards have been waived due to the fact that the internal roadways are to be private.</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Feb 2, 2007, at 10:28 PM, Bev Bafus wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><O:SMARTTAGTYPE name="address" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><O:SMARTTAGTYPE name="place" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><O:SMARTTAGTYPE name="City" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><O:SMARTTAGTYPE name="PlaceName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><O:SMARTTAGTYPE name="PlaceType" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><O:SMARTTAGTYPE name="Street" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></O:SMARTTAGTYPE><O:SMARTTAGTYPE name="PersonName" namespaceuri="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags"></O:SMARTTAGTYPE> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007">For anyone concerned about the direction of growth in the City of Moscow.....</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007">And especially concerned about the way we allow growth in infill areas (lots surrounded by city that are undeveloped or underdeveloped).......</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007">And concerned about the capricious and inconsistent treatment of proposals by City of Moscow Planning & Development........</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007">Please attend this meeting on Monday.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007">Pay attention to the public hearing - item #6.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007">This is land on North Polk Street.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007">These parcels are owned by Mike & Linda Hoffman, Doug & Nancy Wilson, and Matt & Laura Gray.</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007">Thanks</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007">Bev Bafus</SPAN></FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Arial" color="#0000ff" size="2"><SPAN class="906112306-03022007"></SPAN></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE dir="ltr" style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>