RE: Highway 95 -- Moscow Bypass

["Shahab Mesbah" <meteor2@moscow.com>]

I second that.

Your brother in arms,

Shahab...

Shahab Mesbah
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-----Original Message-----
From: Philip Cook [mailto:pcook@uidaho.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, March 01, 2000 12:10 PM
To: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Re: Highway 95 -- Moscow Bypass


Bruce Livingston wrote:

> The experience of many cities that built interstate highway spurs and
> beltways was that it hurt their downtowns and ecouraged development
outside
> of the downtown aand instead on the beltway.

To me, this result is not inevitable.  If a community has the political
will to keep land along the spur, beltway, or bypass in zoning
classifications that prohibit such development, then it cannot
occur. The big question is does such political will exist?

Philip Cook