RE: Palouse Mall: business as usual

["Jennifer Swanberg" <jjswanberg@turbonet.com>]

Hmmm having just returned from nearly two months volunteer work at Houston
Floods 2001, I highly recommend careful planning when filling in a natural
water path that lies adjacent to major road.  Not a good idea AT ALL.

Cheers,
Jennifer

Jennifer J. Swanberg, M.Ed.
LPC-P, NCC, MAC
P.O. Box 9571
Moscow, Idaho 83843
 
jjswanberg@turbonet.com <mailto:jjswanberg@turbonet.com>


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Judy Brown [mailto:jlbrown@turbonet.com]
> Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 4:42 PM
> To: vision2020@moscow.com
> Subject: FW: Palouse Mall: business as usual
>
>
> Visionaries,
> It looks as though the plans (it's hard to see the details from
> the drawings
> on a computer monitor) propose to install a drainage pipe and fill in the
> grassy swale between the highway and the plantings.  If so, I
> wonder if this
> is environmentally and ecologically sound?  Perhaps someone from
> PCEI could
> speak to this?  Would the resulting flat area be planted in grass and
> require irrigation?
> Judy Brown
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill London [mailto:london@moscow.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 8:22 PM
> To: Vision2020; landscape@palousemall.com
> Subject: Palouse Mall: business as usual
>
>     I certainly agree with the recommendation that everyone check out
> the Palouse Mall's website (http://www.palousemall.com) and their
> description of the landscaping they want along the Moscow-Pullman
> Highway there.
>     The website is interesting both for what it does not show and what
> it does reveal.
>     The diagrams and landscapes do not show what the plantings will look
> like from the highway.  The real effect of this planting scheme is not
> clear.
>     However, the mall's spin-doctors who created the explanation
> accompanying the diagrams were very clear in their bias.  The mature
> trees and nice-sized shrubs that survived the mall's Sunday morning raid
> last year, and are growing now in the roadside strip, are described as
> "the aging landscape" and "a worn out landscape."
>     They do not call those plantings "mature" or certainly not
> "attractive"--somehow those nice trees and the bushes there are just
> "worn out."
>     It's still the Mall's same old plan to replace nice decent-sized
> plants with little spindly ones--and I sure hope that Moscow's city
> council has the backbone to say no to this latest example of Palouse
> Mall deception.
> BL
>