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<DIV><SPAN class=125362123-02082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>The
Wilson-Hoffman-Gray parcel development is in full swing... Drive up North Polk
and check it out...</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=125362123-02082007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=125362123-02082007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Or come by my
place at the end of Pintail, and I'll point out the sights!</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=125362123-02082007><FONT face=Arial
color=#0000ff>Bev</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<B>On
Behalf Of </B>keely emerinemix<BR><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:11
PM<BR><B>To:</B> donald huskey; vision2020@moscow.com<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re:
[Vision2020] A Kirk Cathdral l as a gateway to Moscow'<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV style="TEXT-ALIGN: left">How in the world can a piece of land between a
half-acre and an acre in size accommodate not only a large church building,
but the parking space congregants will need? Surely they're not planning
on using any Gritman parking space! <BR><BR>And how does the proxy thing
work, anyway? It seems at some point that the seller would be made aware
of the real purchaser and still be within his or her legal right to interrupt
the sale. Were purchase and building funds loaned to Christ Church, to a
sudden LLC made up of elders, or to a single person who, I would presume, then
secured a promise to have the church pay the mortgage -- and who, then, acted
as co-signer or guarantor for whom? Will the building be tax-exempt as a
church, or will we see the same questions being raised and yet not answered
this time around? <BR><BR>And will the new "cathedral" also have
classroom space for a newly-expanded New St. Andrews, whose administrators
insist that their having complied with the city's parking requirements means
they are free to raise their previously agreed-upon enrollment cap? Will
increases in NSA's future enrollment be assured -- to 250? 500?
1,000, including alternative-classics scholars? -- now that parking for the
new sanctuary can be used, presumably, by the earnest and sweater-vest
clad? <BR><BR>And what of the urban-renewal aspect of that and nearby
parcels? Is this what the City had in mind by "urban renewal"? A
large church on about half an acre? Really?<BR><BR>Is someone in City
government going to ask these questions? <BR><BR>If the proposed
Wilson-Hoffman-Gray subdivision on North Polk comes into being -- and I'd
invite you all to take a look at the many iterations of building plans and
plats the three have offered to the City; it's, in my mind, a Second Circle of
Hell-type subdivision -- will we have the Kirk effectively heralding the North
and South edges of Moscow? Perhaps we can take steps now to make sure
they don't attempt to have the state line moved -- with a little hard work and
<SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic">bonhomie</SPAN>, why not try for the West
entrance as well? (I don't worry about the East; after all, that's just
for Troy and Bovill, a demographic entirely unnecessary to plans for the
Oxford of the Inland Northwest). <BR><BR>Or could it be that the new
parcel will be used to house the Christ Church Community Food Bank? Oh,
wait. That'd just be
silly.<BR><BR>keely<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR></DIV><BR><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">"And these women that you spit on as they try to
change their worlds/</SPAN><BR style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><SPAN
style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Are immune to your consultations . . . they're
quite aware of what they're going through"</SPAN><BR>(With apologies to David
Bowie)<BR><BR><BR>
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From: donaldrose@cpcinternet.com<BR>To: vision2020@moscow.com<BR>Date: Thu,
2 Aug 2007 13:16:00 -0700<BR>Subject: [Vision2020] A Kirk Cathdral l as a
gateway to Moscow'<BR><BR>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face=Georgia color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia">Visionaries:</SPAN></FONT></P>
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<P class=EC_MsoNormal><FONT face=Georgia color=navy size=3><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia">Today, according
to my source, the land deal for the projected Kirk Cathedral will
close. A proxy was selected to purchase the land since, I am told, the
Kirk has had difficulty securing land after the seller is made aware of the
buyer. The plan is to build on the little tiny triangle across from
Gritman that is only .7 of an acre. The building will accommodate a
projected 1,000 to 1,200 people. What is a church (or any non property
tax paying entry) doing on land designated for urban renewal, you ask?
Ms. Lund and I have raised that question several times over the past two
years with little success. Perhaps the time is ripe to reopen the
question. Or, has Doug Wilson finally succeeded in making a very
concrete statement about his claim that </SPAN></FONT><FONT face=Georgia
color=navy><SPAN
style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia">Moscow</SPAN></FONT><FONT
face=Georgia color=navy><SPAN style="COLOR: navy; FONT-FAMILY: Georgia"> is
his town? </SPAN></FONT></P>
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Huskey</SPAN></FONT></P>
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