> Dear Visionaries:
>
> There will be a half-day goal setting meeting with Moscow City Council,
> city department heads and Commission chairs on April 4. We have been asked
> to write down our top two goals and a brief action statement for each goal.
>
>
> I am seeking input. If you have specific thoughts on Moscow city goals for
> the next year, please send me a message.
>
>From my perspective, Moscow City Goals ought to be:
1) A sustainable growth limit that is formally, not just
voluntarily, tied to available water supply/usage. There
should be a moratorium on any new annexation/development
until the City has a plan on how it can meet its water
consumption/conservation goals.
2) Development and support for bike paths/linear parks/open spaces
3) Enforcement of human/animal protection laws (the lack of
prosecution by the City in the recent Paradise Creek
leghold trapping incident is completely unacceptable)
4) A visual design review ordinance (must Moscow continue to have the
*ugliest* apartment complexes on the face of the earth?)
5) Enforcement of current zoning regulations in the Area of
Impact (the 40 acre minimum for Ag/Forestry is meaningless
when the City continues to grant every single exception)
6) Enactment of a Environmental Impact Ordinance, one that would
require all major developments to outline their
environmental, social, and fiscal impacts so that plans
can be developed to mitigate the impacts (or should we continue
to make current residents subsidize the growth and destruction
of the open space around them?)
This should do for starters. :-)
-- Greg Brown gregb@uidaho.edu Computer Services Moscow, ID 83843 University of Idaho (208) 885-2126