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Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 17:47:37 -0800
From: Dennis Geist <dgeist@uidaho.edu>
To: Bill London <london@wsunix.wsu.edu>
Subject: Re: new county planning standards
Bill-
Note that I'm addressing this to you personally, but feel free to forward
it to the list if you feel it would be useful.
First, the easy one. We have no juristiction in the Moscow AOI, so we will
certainly ignoring that issue for now. If all you're interested in are the
boundaries, all of the county's AOIs show up on both the zoning and comp
plan maps, so they'll be there. If the whole AOI issue is important to you,
I suggest you contact our area's legislators. The whole business is
mandated by the state.
I will look into bringing the "data" we used to help define the rural and
ag/forest zones that we propose (I should say that others on the commission
are more expert than me on this information). The principal information
sources were productivity maps for both agriculture and forestry. We also
assessed other issues, such as current use and contiguity. In other words,
we did not strictly use any kind of rigorously-defined criteria, because we
wanted regions, not a checkerboard; depending on who the viewer is, it
might be called "arbitrary" (I'd settle for "well-informed subjective").
But in the hierarchy during our decision-making process, productivity was
clearly at the top.
On the soils: we have chosen to go with the SCS Latah County Soil Survey.
It's a very detailed report, with precise boundaries between soil types on
air photos.
The proposed zoning map will certainly be at all meetings.
Sincerely, Dennis
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Dennis Geist, Associate Professor
Geology and Geological Engineering
University of Idaho
Moscow, ID 83844
dgeist@uidaho.edu
http://www.uidaho.edu/~dgeist/