Re: Corridor Development

["JS M" <jbiggs50@hotmail.com>]

There can be not such thing as "trace free" living.  People impact the 
environment. Period.  So, why can't a conversation begin about how we choose 
to impact the environment?  The people that draw a line in the sand 
regarding the corridor will simply be overcome by events and left wondering 
what happened.  People evolve, land use evolves.  What seems undesirable 
today may be the next big thing.  I understand that the Nov.3 meeting with 
WSDOT was attended by (almost) exclusively people who oppose any kind of 
corridor development.  Where's the diversity of opinion?  If the "other 
side" isn't invited to these events, you're just talking to yourself.
jm


>From: Ken Medlin <dev-plan@moscow.com>
>To: "Joel Hamilton" <joelh@uidaho.edu>,        "Moscow Vision 2020" 
><vision2020@moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: Corridor Development
>Date: Wed, 17 Nov 99 09:54:50 -0800
>
>As an alternative (a different route for urban sprawl) you are still
>'constrained' by concepts of economic and social development that
>ultimately destroy sustainability of the life forms that compose this
>planet -- destroy those life forms, or biotic systems, and you undermine
>life itself. The new bio-engineering and hi-tech ideologies that most ag.
>economists support today can never replace what nature has given us. Yet,
>the funding of these novelties marches blindly on, while funding of
>scientific efforts to evaluate what is and could happen if we fail to
>heed the signs we already have, is grossly inadequate to the tasks. Do
>you (does he) inform  students of real alternatives, or is there just one
>scenario? True education must be fully open-ended and not biased to one
>'solution' to economic growth. Some data from the "Worldwatch" projects
>are really informative, and carry  warnings we ought not ignore.  W. Ken
>Medlin
>
>------------------------
>William K. Medlin
>Dev-plan associates
>930 Kenneth Street
>Moscow ID 83843
>208/892-0148
>dev-plan@moscow.com
>

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