<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><pre><font face="Helvetica"><span style="white-space: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Today, travel between Moscow and Pullman is like a leisurely drive in the
country, a pleasant and quick trip between two distinct towns.
That may change very soon, however. The Whitman County Planning Commission
wants to remake the corridor trip into a regular big-city commute by filling
the open spaces with retail, wholesale, and industrial buildings.
Soon, I'm afraid, this leisurely drive will have all the charm of a
California strip mall, complete with stop-and-go traffic, stoplights, ugly
sprawl, fast food joints, anxiety and road rage.
As businesses pull out of both Moscow and Pullman seeking the greener
pastures of the Corridor, both towns will be left with empty buildings and
lower tax revenues.
A few landowners, developers and builders will have made some short-term
bucks, but our quality of life will have taken another major hit."</span></font></pre><pre><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0); white-space: normal; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; font-family: Helvetica; ">- Bill London. (May 12, 1999)</span></pre><pre><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><a href="http://vision2020.moscow.com/Archives/1999/9905/msg00051.html">http://vision2020.moscow.com/Archives/1999/9905/msg00051.html</a></span></pre>-------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>Join the community in remembering Bill London . . .</div><div><br></div><div>June 9, 2013 (4:00 PM)</div><div>1912 Center (The Great Room)<br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Seeya there, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">"Moscow Cares"</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></body></html>