<div>Jack,</div> <div> </div> <div>Does this mean you are not supporting Dan Carscallen for City Council?</div> <div> </div> <div>Best,</div> <div> </div> <div>Donovan<BR><BR><B><I>Jack Porter <jporter@moscow.com></I></B> wrote:</div> <BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">[As published as a letter to the Daily News today]<BR><BR>The Greater Moscow Alliance is making a well-financed push to take over the <BR>Moscow City Council in November, and voters need to pay attention.<BR><BR>The GMA gave us another example of its skewed priorities at the City <BR>Council meeting on Sept. 4. The Council invited public comments on the <BR>"boarding house ordinance" that has been drafted to deal with absentee <BR>investors who buy up houses in single-family neighborhoods and rent them to <BR>rowdy crowds of college students.<BR><BR>One after another, residents told horror stories of how their
<BR>family-friendly neighborhoods have been degraded by this process of <BR>commercial exploitation. But a GMA representative got up and read a <BR>statement opposing the ordinance because it might limit the "property <BR>rights" of absentee landlords. Never mind the rights of ordinary citizens <BR>to protect the character of their neighborhoods what matters to GMA is the <BR>right to maximize profits.<BR><BR>I hope voters will remember this in November. The GMA candidates are <BR>well-meaning guys (yes, they're all guys), but do they share GMA's extreme <BR>pro-development philosophy? When they have to choose between "property <BR>rights" and the quality of life in Moscow's neighborhoods, which do you <BR>think they will choose?<BR><BR>Jack R. Porter<BR><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
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