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<p><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-style:normal'>Donovan,<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></em></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-style:normal'>Because I tire of reading things that are not correct.<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></em></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
font-style:normal'>Here are researched facts- not suppositions. From a
spokesman Review article found at http://www.spokesmanreview.com/tools/story_pf.asp?ID=136563<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></em></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></i></em></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>2004
to 2005:</span></font></i></em> Tidyman's closes a half-dozen less-profitable
stores including in <st1:City w:st="on">Spokane</st1:City>; <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>,
<st1:State w:st="on">Idaho</st1:State>; <st1:City w:st="on">Lewiston</st1:City>;
<st1:City w:st="on">Coeur d'Alene</st1:City>; <st1:City w:st="on">Missoula</st1:City>;
and <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Helena</st1:place></st1:City>. The
<st1:place w:st="on">Argonne</st1:place> store is also closed.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>June
2006:</span></font></i></em> Tidyman's announces it's selling off its remaining
stores.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Tidyman’s
no longer exists.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Kris
Freitag<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'>
vision2020-bounces@moscow.com [mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com] <b><span
style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Donovan Arnold<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Monday, October 29, 2007
8:26 PM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Mark Solomon; Bev Bafus;
Saundra Lund; vision2020@moscow.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: [Vision2020] Dispel
the anti-growth myth</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Mark,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>The City Council didn't approve the rezone when I was there. They might
have changed their mind at a later date. Tidyman's is still in business, just
not in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>True, it was the County, not the City, that pulled the trigger on
Naylor Farms, but I bet you $100 the City would not have ruled any differently
and would have carried on the fight against them is they got approval from the
County. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>To a business, it doesn't matter if it is the actual city or county
killing their business, it is still killing their business when they try to
local here. 70% of the county is the City.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I think sales tax is the problem with the state government, especially
on food and OTC drugs and education materials. <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> has to high of taxes because of school
levies. I am not saying education isn't worth funding well, but there is
breaking point for what many people on what they can afford to give and the MSD
has long passed it. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Donovan<br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Mark Solomon
<msolomon@moscow.com></span></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Donovan,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>A few corrections: The City Council approved the rezone of the 40 acres
behind the Palouse Mall; the county rejected Naylor Farms, not the city; Home
Depot never applied for anything from the city when their internal corporate
troubles caught up to them (they were negotiating with the UI to build on the
UI land the city rezoned behind the mall, see first point); Tidyman's went out
of business.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I agree with you re property taxes. If the Idaho Legislature would do
something about the billions of dollars in tax exempt sales they've authorized,
maybe there would be enough money to fund local government and schools without
burdening the property tax payer. Or better yet, rescind Kempthorne's corporate
income tax giveaway and the timber land property tax giveaway.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>m.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>At 7:04 PM -0700 10/29/07, Donovan Arnold wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I think the image of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
being anti-business is an accurate perception. And it isn't new, it has just
gotten worse.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I am sure that many businesses have come to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, even in recent years. However, we are
also losing a lot of businesses and are blocking many of them from coming into <st1:City
w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>. We also prevent
businesses from expanding and hiring more people.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I have attended few city council meetings, but many of them were about
blocking some type of business or another. I remember the city council
rejecting an entire expansion of businesses behind the Palouse Mall. Many
local businesses have been pushed out of the Palouse Mall and the
city has done nothing to protect them.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>And as we all know, <st1:City w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City> rejected a <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Wal-Mart</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType
w:st="on">Supercenter</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>, Naylor Farms, and Home
Depot. Likewise it lost <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Toyota</st1:place></st1:City>,
Tidyman's, and several wonderful restaurants, and a locally owned repair shop
in additions to a 1/2 downtown and in the Palouse Mall.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I do agree with Alturas as being an example of doing "The
Right Thing" to get a business in. But as I recall Aaron Ament was against
the expansion of that building, and more tax dollars were put into that
building than we have received in return.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>I think the biggest anti-business incentives for <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City> are its property taxes. <st1:City
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:City>'s taxes make <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
an unaffordable city that is unfriendly to businesses.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Best,<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Donovan<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'><br>
<br>
<b><i><span style='font-weight:bold;font-style:italic'>Bev Bafus
<bevbafus@verizon.net></span></i></b> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>Let's add a few expanding businesses. Northwest Management, where I
work,<br>
is currently doubling the size of our office. Northwest River Supplies took<br>
over the Tidyman's building.<br>
<br>
Any other expanding businesses?<br>
<br>
Bev<br>
<br>
<br>
-----Original Message-----<br>
From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com<br>
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]On Behalf Of Saundra Lund<br>
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 5:26 PM<br>
To: vision2020@moscow.com<br>
Subject: [Vision2020] Dispel the anti-growth myth<br>
<br>
<br>
The letter below appears in today's Daily News -- anyone care to add more to<br>
Ms. Sullivan's list?<br>
<br>
Also, do any of you GMAers care to provide a list of new businesses that<br>
came to <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>
during any two-year period of Comstock's reign and a list of<br>
businesses that were denied?<br>
<br>
I think it might be interested to have a ***factual*** comparison rather<br>
than just rumors designed to tear down the community.<br>
<br>
<br>
Saundra Lund<br>
<br>
<br>
"Dispel the anti-growth myth<br>
<br>
I agree that having the "perception" of being
anti-growth/anti-business is<br>
harmful to the city of <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>,
and I was driven to find out why that<br>
perception exists when Wayne Krauss expressed concerns and asked, "Why do
we<br>
have this perception?" at a recent forum.<br>
<br>
Since the most recently elected council came into office in January 2006,<br>
more than 35 new businesses have opened in <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place
w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>, including Old Navy, Bed,<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Bath</st1:place></st1:City> and
Beyond, Cramer's Furniture, Dad's Diner, Marco Polo, Nectar,<br>
Lilliput, Sisters Brew Coffeehouse, West of <st1:City w:st="on">Paris</st1:City>,
Palouse Scoots, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City><br>
Bagel and Deli, Anytime Fitness, San Miguels, Sure Shot Sporting Goods,<br>
Subway, and BioTracking just to name a few. Many businesses have expanded<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>and moved into larger spaces during this time. Only two businesses were<br>
denied by the city and these were both handled in the way that Walter Steed<br>
states he would address a pig farm wanting to locate behind his property;<br>
they were denied in the specific proposed locations in accordance with<br>
zoning regulations. Never did city officials say they were not wanted in<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<br>
<br>
Back to the question posed by Krauss: "Why do we have this
perception?" For<br>
the answer, I would look to recent advertisements in the Moscow-Pullman<br>
Daily News for Krauss, Steed and Carscallen in which the headline calls the<br>
current city leadership "anti-growth politicians." I would pay
attention to<br>
who is repeating this anti-growth message over and over.<br>
<br>
I believe Dan Carscallen is concerned when he says, "Changing the
perception<br>
is the thing that needs to happen," and if we can all agree that this is<br>
harmful, we should all agree to stop, to dispel this myth and to promote<br>
<st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>.<br>
<br>
Brandy Sullivan, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Moscow</st1:place></st1:City>"<br>
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