vision2020
RE: Infrastructure improvements.
Point well taken. My email does make assumptions. It assumes that a
community like Moscow would like to have more businesses. Businesses that
minimize their negative impacts and maximize their possitive impacts.
You are also absolutely correct about the high cost of living in the Silicon
Valley and the Redmond area. That is a major factor in the minds of many
businesses. If it costs a great deal to live there, then their compensation
is less attractive. That is precisely why Moscow IS attractive. I do not
think that Moscow needs fear the problem that many in Redmond and Silicon
Valley face. Evenso, you will not find many of the original residents
complaining about the huge increases they have seen in their property values
(although they may complain about many other issues).
You can approach your community in one of three ways. 1) No growth - do
whatever you can to make the community unattractive. 2) Managed growth - do
whatever you can to make it attractive to businesses that are beneficial to
the community, and plan accordingly. 3) Sprawl - make no plan at all and
take your lumps as they come.
IMHO, it is niavee to think that you can have a well balanced, wholesome
community based on the first choice (people that wish to be productive will
leave). It is the height of folly to go with the latter.
Your choice.
John B. Guyer
Enterprise Data Management
johnguy@microsoft.com
(425) 703-3971
-----Original Message-----
From: Dena Marchant [mailto:wyakin@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 1998 3:13 PM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Re: Infrastructure improvements.
John,
I'd certainly rather live next door to a software company than
many other kinds of companies. But your mail assumes that more business
is a given, and that the only questions are what kind, and can we get
them. It's also important to ask how much business we want. Being
virtually pollution free is very, very good. But pollution isn't the
only potential affect a business can have on an area. For example,
Redmond and Silicon Valley are very expensive places to live.
Dena
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