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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>That being the case, why not leave it up
to the individual business to make the decision<BR>to woo you and your bulging
wallet in by providing hermetically sealed, air conditioned, gem encrusted bike
accommodations?</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>Should the city, with its unerring eye for
economic bounty, decide to dip into its coffers and build a bike rack on every
corner of every block taxpayers would howl and rightly so.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>Even though such a scheme would have the
ultimate beneficiaries paying at least a portion of the cost and result in a
similar number or parking slots, voters would see it for the wasteful
boondoggle that it is. Forcing the expense off onto private property owners
doesn't make it any better.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT color=#000000 face=Calibri>g</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR></FONT>g<BR><BR>--------------------------------------------------<BR>From:
"Robert Dickow" <dickow@uidaho.edu><BR>Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011
1:05 PM<BR>To: "'the lockshop'" <lockshop@pull.twcbc.com>;
<vision2020@moscow.com><BR>Cc: <dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us>;
<tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us>; <wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us>;
<sscott@ci.moscow.id.us>; <nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us>;
<wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us>; <tlamar@ci.moscow.id.us><BR>Subject: Re:
[Vision2020] deluxe parking accommodations for some-paid for
by others<BR><BR>> Curiously, Instead of 'government intrusion into
business' I thought it was<BR>> quite the opposite. I thought the bike
parking issue was for the benefit of<BR>> the business, not the bikers. Heck,
if I knew I could tie my bike up in such<BR>> a parking facility I would do
100% of my shopping downtown by bike. Usually<BR>> in the past I would tie my
bike to a tree or post, lacking other handy<BR>> facilities, and discover
that my lock chain didn't fit around the tree...<BR>> blah blah blah, so
there was a disincentive. Businesses... think of the<BR>> growth of business
in town!<BR>> <BR>> Bob Dickow, troublemaker<BR>> <BR>>
-----Original Message-----<BR>> From: vision2020-bounces@moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces@moscow.com]<BR>> On Behalf Of the lockshop<BR>>
Sent: Saturday, February 05, 2011 9:39 AM<BR>> To:
vision2020@moscow.com<BR>> Cc: wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us;
tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us;<BR>> wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us; sscott@ci.moscow.id.us;
nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us;<BR>> dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us;
tlamar@ci.moscow.id.us<BR>> Subject: [Vision2020] deluxe parking
accommodations for some-paid for by<BR>> others<BR>> <BR>> Does anyone
other then myself wonder why the city in its infinite wisdom <BR>> doesn't
spend a little more time worrying about city property and assets and<BR>>
<BR>> a little less time trying to dream up ways to inflict itself on private
<BR>> property owners, developers, and businesses? I'm speaking of course
about <BR>> the councils latest intrusion into the lives of its business
community, the <BR>> proposed bike parking ordnance. <snip>...<BR>>
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