Corridor car lot

["Priscilla Salant" <psalant@moscow.com>]

Can anyone give me the facts on how a car lot could have materialized
overnight on the corridor?  Perhaps the Whitman County Commissioners are
not legally required to formally approve the new development plan before
auto sales begin?

Before I express unwarranted outrage at the knot of traffic (as shoppers
tried turning left into the gravel pit at rush hour), can someone tell me
it was all a mirage?  Before I admit the foolishness of my sympathetic
instincts for the revenue strapped commissioners and property owners, can
someone assure me this is not an in-your-face, we won kind of move?

Surely I misunderstand what's happening in the corridor.  It can't be as
bad as it appears.

--Priscilla Salant