Re: Old High School

["John and Laurie Danahy" <JDANAHY@turbonet.com>]

    It should be noted by all that at the present time the building known
as Whitworth is still in the hands of the school district.  This despite
over $160,000 of private funds being donated to the city for its purchase. 
At tonights city council meeting, the fate of the building will, for all
practical purposes, be decided by the city council.  The county had an
oppurtunity to be part of the discussion over the use of teh building, or
the land, but withdrew from said discussion two years ago.  
     the parking problem could be solved with a better use of local
resources.  For example, county employee and high school parking at one of
the mall lots, and riding a bus into town.  the site itself, sans building,
is too valuable to be used for just a parking lot.
John

John and Laurie Danahy
jdanahy@turbonet.com

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> From: Bruce Haglund <bhaglund@uidaho.edu>
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: Re: Old High School
> Date: Monday, July 06, 1998 5:32 PM
> 
> At 04:04 PM 7/6/98 -0700, you wrote:
> >
> >
> >It is important to note that Mike Sohns -- despite his objection to
public
> >expenditures -- is in fact suggesting that we should expend
> >public funds to subsidize automobiles.
> >
> >Dale Goble
> >Moscow
> >
> visionaries,
> I was hoping more of you would chime in. Dale and Tom Lamar are right
about
> the parking/auto problem. More parking encourages more auto use. Parking
is
> expensive in many ways. 
> (I'm an Adams Street neighbor of the HS and students park in front of my
> house--two blocks from school, close enough, I'd say. I note the extent
of
> their parking pattern as I walk to work each day.)
> The notion that old buildings are some kind of problem just because they
> are old is wrong. Spending the $3,000,000 to rennovate the old HS would
> deliver an exceptionally sound building with durable finishes (low
> maintenance) and new systems (HVAC, lighting--low maintenance and energy
> saving) all this for $100/square foot--you can only build new buildings
of
> low quality (high mainteneance) for less. Regrettably, we rarely build as
> well today. So the bottom line is a bargain price AND a valuable cultural
> resource is saved. The old HS will delight Moscow residents for many more
> years than a parking lot will. (Note that my office is in a building even
> older than the old HS and it's a very delightful place--in spite of my
> clutter.)
> Also, I thought no public funds were used to purchase (save) the building
> and that fund raising for remodelling would occur.
> Bruce Haglund 
> Chair, Dept of Architecture