...and just over 2 yrs ago was a different city council and Mayor<br><br><b><i>baukunst@moscow.com</i></b> wrote:<blockquote class="replbq" style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> My wife & I left Moscow just over 2 years ago because of the business<br>climate, limited available opportunities, and looking for a change of<br>scenery. I understand Moscow businesses to operate just fine if your<br>clientele are UI student, staff, or faculty; or are out of the area - there<br>is a very limited population to find a maket niche in otherwise. To depend<br>upon the local pop. is too limiting for very many. Others followed suit<br>and left the Palouse around the same time we did because of its<br>self-imposed limits. It could be more, but...<br><br>Moscow development seems to limit itself to supplying current resident<br>needs. It does not want to draw attention to itself and attract others to<br>the area. In the 27 years I
witnessed, it has done so because of a<br>"mentality" of "do the minimum to get by." Its agrarian background is<br>strong and will subside, but it is still highly ingrained. Frugality is<br>too progressive. The Palouse is progressive in thought - actions say the<br>opposite.<br><br>Looking towards the future, Moscow will not want to change from its past. <br>It will not seek to build upon the UI resource(s) to attract more people<br>and attention. High-tech jobs maytrickle in because of the quality of<br>life, but it is tightly controlled by the forces the above subject line<br>means to rebuke. Why move there when other places are more well known? <br>What does it have to offer that CO, AZ, or OR & WA don't? Most would<br>likely head to Boise first anyway, unless only the UI had it.<br><br>"Free market" forces bring Moscow's slow growth rate. Christ Church<br>results from the free market and the willing buyers of belivers. Condos<br>along the UI golf course
will come when the 'boomer market demands. "Free<br>market" forces will bring a pedestrian overpass at 3rd & TriState. <br>Building upon the available creative resources has as more common sense<br>than the no-brainer "attract high-tech."<br><br>I don't belive the "free market" is wise, nor do I trust it. The "free<br>market" is part of a larger system and as such it is influenced by forces<br>beyond the local market. What happens in Moscow, ID is not totally out of<br>control, but it is beyond local influence only. The local political<br>election changes people, it does not change the system.<br><br>As long as there is gravity, water will seek equilibrium. It might<br>overshoot past being sustainable, but it will find a usable level. <br>Development levels will follow water too. Although development can be<br>retrofitted to fit consumption levels that should have been implemented<br>initially.<br><br>Anyway, I hope the UI condos are in-place in 5 years so I can
move back and<br>retire in comfort; not having to be concerned about making a living in<br>Moscow, ID. As long as there are students serving up lattes & bagles or<br>crumpets and tea, I should be just fine, then, cheerio.<br><br>Mark Seman, Architect<br><br><br> <br><br>---------------------------------------------<br>This message was sent by First Step Internet.<br> http://www.fsr.com/<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 <br> mailto:Vision2020@moscow.com<br>=======================================================<br></blockquote><br><BR><BR>Tom & Liz Ivie<p> __________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around <br>http://mail.yahoo.com