vision2020@moscow.com: Re: pieces of the puzzle
Re: pieces of the puzzle
Fritz Knorr (fritzk@moscow.com)
Thu, 11 Apr 1996 08:35:10 -0700
At 06:12 PM 4/10/96 PDT, Kenton wrote:
>Here's another comment on this topic.
>
>----------------------------Original message----------------------------
>On Wed, 10 Apr 1996 11:30:55 -800 Ron Force said:
>>> Date: Wed, 10 Apr 96 10:10:54 PDT
>>> From: Kenton <90142419@WSUVM1.CSC.WSU.EDU>
>>> Subject: pieces of the puzzle
>>> To: vision2020@uidaho.edu
>>
>>> Gens raised some interesting questions in her message wondering about
>>> a possible connection between the Business Park and the Whitworth Building.
>>> I've had similar thoughts about the Davids' building (Xenon) at Third and
>>> Main, which is reportedly for sale... wouldn't it make sense to use an
>>> existing building to meet the community's need for office space in a central
>>> location?
>>
>>No parking...
>>
>Parking downtown is a problem but not an insurmountable one if we think
>creatively about ways around it: satellite parking at the two malls with
>a shuttle loop between them stopping downtown; incentives for downtown
>employees to use alternative transportation (bikes are practical at least
>6 months out of the year; a parking structure shared with UI on the property
>bounded by Sweet Avenue, Railroad Street and College Street. And some
>businesses which don't rely on a high volume of walk-in traffic (First
>Step Research, for exmple) may not need more than a handful of customer
>parking spaces. Other towns (Coeur d'Alene, Missoula) have confronted
>their downtown parking problems; what can we learn from them?
>--Kenton
>
Kenton,
Those are rational arguements, but I believe that Ron's brief comment more
emotional than rational. It was almost like poetry to me.
There are so many underfunded ideas out there and there is such entrenched
opposition to good ideas, that a concept has to be totally together and
tight like a drum to survive. Any sort of community improvement has to be a
complete, whole, clear, defendable and fundable proposal. Even when it is,
it stands a very, very small chance of survival (like the Mountain View
project).
I understood Ron's poetry to be sweeping the idea off the agenda so that we
don't get our community concepts all cluttered up with partial projects.
Right at the front end, let's get this one out of the way.
No parking.
Fritz
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