<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Yes, it is unfair for the government to needlessly block customer access to a business. Especially when the business is paying for that access. Do you honestly think the government knows what is better for a business than the owner of that business? That is a ludicrous claim, Council member Steed. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">This is just another example of why downtown and small businesses suffer, fail to develop, and turn over so frequently, there is no respect for them and their needs. Nobody even listens to them. It sure would be nice to have a pro-business city council again or <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-0>at least</SPAN> one that <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-1><SPAN>acknowledges</SPAN></SPAN> their concerns are <SPAN style="RIGHT: auto" id=misspell-2><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">legitimate</SPAN></SPAN>. It seems <VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>the only time the city council is pro business is when it comes to Exxon Mobile wanting to violate nature and personal property. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Your two statements are equally illogical;</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">"Is it unfair to have several hundred persons within 20' of a business that many may not have ever known was there?"</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">"A Transportation Commission survey of downtown customers a few years ago showed they did not mind parking more than a block from a business they wanted to access."</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">If they are downtown customers they already know the businesses that are downtown.</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">On a positive note, I am glad to see Mr. Steed, you have figured out how to use email. Welcome to the 21st century. </SPAN></div>
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<kburns@ci.moscow.id.us> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sunday, July 1, 2012 8:07 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> RE: [Vision2020] The Way It Was Meant to Be . . .<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<DIV style="DISPLAY: inline"><FONT face=arial>it is unfair to the downtown businesses who pay rents and property taxes so they have use of that space for their customers. Businesses need to have customers able to drive up close and then walk into their businesses."</FONT></DIV></DIV></SPAN></SPAN>
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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto"><FONT style="RIGHT: auto" class=yiv1509170749Apple-style-span face=arial>Is it unfair to have several hundred persons within 20' of a business that many may not have ever known was there? This creates a law suit level problem for the store front business? A Transportation Commission survey of downtown customers a few years ago showed they did not mind parking more than a block from a business they wanted to access. That is, customers did not feel it was as necessary to park in front of the business as the owners of the businesses themselves believe.<BR></FONT>
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<DIV style="DIRECTION: ltr" id=yiv1509170749divRpF798385><FONT color=#000000 size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Donovan Arnold [donovanjarnold2005@yahoo.com]<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, July 01, 2012 5:05 PM<BR><B>To:</B> Tom Hansen; Walter M Steed<BR><B>Cc:</B> Dan Carscallen; Tim Brown; Moscow Vision 2020; Sue Scott; Nancy Chaney; Wayne Krauss; Tom Lamar; Kathleen Burns<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [Vision2020] The Way It Was Meant to Be . . .<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><VAR id=yiv1509170749yui-ie-cursor></VAR>This configuration is a better one. However, it is unfair to the downtown businesses who pay rents and property taxes so they have use of that space for their customers. Businesses need to have customers able to drive up close and then walk into their businesses. Not to mention ADA compliance. If the streets are blocked off, their customers cannot do this.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN>Image if you spent thousands of extra dollars every year to have a good location, good signage, enough parking, and maintained a good regular clientele to keep your doors open, and then the city came along, eliminated your parking and allowed other business to pitch a tent in front of your business. I would be furious. On top of this, if you <SPAN id=yiv1509170749misspell-0><SPAN>publicly</SPAN></SPAN> complain, your potential customers and some of your existing customers will dislike you for not being supportive of the community.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN>If the City wants to use this configuration it should either come up with a way to compensate or satisfy the needs and concerns of the existing businesses. Or if can brace for a lawsuit and future farmer's markets locations and setups to be decided by the courts, instead of the people of the City of Moscow and the surrounding communities. Which would be a great loss to everyone. </SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN>So city leaders and concerned members of the Moscow area community, please consider the needs and concerns of the downtown businesses,<I><B>they are valid</B></I>. <SPAN id=yiv1509170749misspell-0 class=yiv1509170749mark><SPAN id=misspell-5 class=mark>Hodgkins</SPAN></SPAN> and other downtown businesses didn't stay in business for so long by being knee-jerk reactionary hotheads and not knowing what was good or bad for their business. If the city is hurting their business, they probably are.</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 10pt"><SPAN>There is also probably a reason why this configuration, obviously seemingly better, was not used in the past. Could it have been that they wanted the downtown businesses to stay in business?</SPAN></SPAN></DIV>
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<kburns@ci.moscow.id.us> <BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Sunday, July 1, 2012 12:13 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Vision2020] The Way It Was Meant to Be . . .<BR></FONT></DIV><BR>Mr. Steed -<BR><BR>As willing as you are to openly discuss Mayor Chaney's perspective, concerning the location and operation of Moscow's Farmers' Market, what is your perspective?<BR><BR>Do you support adopting the current (albeit temporary) Farmers' Market concept of blocking off Main Street between Third and Fifth Streets, thus reducing/eliminating the intrusion of vehicular traffic . . . or not?<BR><BR><IMG src="cid:1.4171034660@web121801.mail.ne1.yahoo.com"><BR><BR><BR>Tom Hansen<BR>Moscow, Idaho<BR><BR>"If not us, who?<BR>If not now, when?"<BR><BR>- Unknown<BR><BR><BR><BR>On Jun 30, 2012, at 18:33, Walter M Steed <<A href="mailto:wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us" rel=nofollow target=_blank
ymailto="mailto:wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us">wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us</A>> wrote:<BR><BR>> Interesting... In light of the Mayor's perspective...<BR>> <BR>> Walter Steed<BR>> Sent from my <SPAN id=yiv1509170749misspell-5 class=yiv1509170749mark><SPAN id=misspell-10 class=mark>iPhone</SPAN></SPAN><BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Jun 30, 2012, at 6:09 PM, "deb" <<A href="mailto:debismith@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:debismith@moscow.com">debismith@moscow.com</A>> wrote:<BR>> <BR>>> NICE! And I love the new configuration---blocking off Main is great! And, since I was downtown anyhow, I dropped into a few stores I normally don't frequent; found a pair of socks at <SPAN id=yiv1509170749misspell-6 class=yiv1509170749mark><SPAN id=misspell-11 class=mark>Hyperspud</SPAN></SPAN>, a book at <SPAN id=yiv1509170749misspell-7 class=yiv1509170749mark><SPAN id=misspell-12 class=mark>Bookpeople</SPAN></SPAN> for my
grandson, and a pair of pants at <SPAN id=yiv1509170749misspell-8 class=yiv1509170749mark><SPAN id=misspell-13 class=mark>StormCellar</SPAN></SPAN>....also discovered I'd sold a piece of art from my Howard <SPAN id=yiv1509170749misspell-9 class=yiv1509170749mark><SPAN id=misspell-14 class=mark>Huges</SPAN></SPAN> Video show from <SPAN id=yiv1509170749misspell-10 class=yiv1509170749mark><SPAN id=misspell-15 class=mark>ArtWalk</SPAN></SPAN>. Wonderful day!! Huzzah, Moscow, Heart of the Arts!<BR>>> Debi R-S<BR>>> <BR>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Hansen" <<A href="mailto:thansen@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:thansen@moscow.com">thansen@moscow.com</A>><BR>>> To: "Moscow Vision 2020" <<A href="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:vision2020@moscow.com">vision2020@moscow.com</A>><BR>>> Cc: "Dan Carscallen" <<A
href="mailto:dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us">dcarscallen@ci.moscow.id.us</A>>; "Tim Brown" <<A href="mailto:tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us">tbrown@ci.moscow.id.us</A>>; "Walter Steed" <<A href="mailto:wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us">wmsteed@ci.moscow.id.us</A>>; "Sue Scott" <<A href="mailto:sscott@ci.moscow.id.us" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:sscott@ci.moscow.id.us">sscott@ci.moscow.id.us</A>>; "Nancy Chaney" <<A href="mailto:nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us">nchaney@ci.moscow.id.us</A>>; "Wayne Krauss" <<A href="mailto:wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us">wkrauss@ci.moscow.id.us</A>>; "Tom Lamar" <<A
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