RE: Palouse Mall landscaping

["Pieron, Andriette" <andriette@neill-lib.org>]

Yup, I'll have to add my relief about the delayed vote, perhaps the delay
will bring people to their senses.  Cutting down those mature trees, for a
better view?  I've rarely heard anything more ridiculous.


Andriette Pieron
714 Hathaway St.
Moscow Idaho

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-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Cooke [mailto:scooke@uidaho.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:07 PM
To: comstock@moscow.com; steveb@moscow.com; johnguy@moscow.com;
pegh@uidaho.edu; jmhill@moscow.com; jmack@turbonet.com;
mtethoma@moscow.com
Cc: Kenton Bird; Vision2020 Listserver List
Subject: RE: Palouse Mall landscaping


Dear Moscow Council members,
	I would say a big Amen to Kenton Bird's analysis of the tree line in front
of the mall (see below). I do not want any expanded "view lines" in front of
the Palouse Mall. I know where the Palouse Mall is and I know what stores
are there. Expanded "view lines" would not add any additional commercial or
retail information for me nor for many others in Moscow and Pullman I
suspect. However, expanded "view lines" would speak volumes politically
about whose interests count when interests conflict.
 (Why the commercial interests of the mall would make the tree line a
fight-to-the-finish is a mystery to me. The ill will of consumers alone
would suggest against such a strategy.)
My preference is for the Council to move forward on Mayor Comstock's sign
ordinance proposal of several years back. Further, I would recommend making
the commercial strip on 3rd street east of the mall look more like the
Palouse mall planting strip (pre-stealth plant cutting on a Sunday morning
in Nov. 2000) and not the reverse as proposed.
The planting strip in front of the Palouse Mall is one of the many things I
would point to with pride as a feature in which the City of Moscow got it
right. In politics as in medicine the prime directive is 'do no harm.'
Steve Cooke
226 E. First St.
Moscow, ID

-----Original Message-----
From: Kenton Bird [mailto:kentonbird@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 2:27 PM
To: comstock@moscow.com; steveb@moscow.com; johnguy@moscow.com;
pegh@uidaho.edu; jmhill@moscow.com; jmack@turbonet.com; mtethoma@moscow.com
Cc: vision2020@moscow.com
Subject: Re: Palouse Mall landscaping

Dear council members,
Thank you for your decision to delay a vote on the Palouse Mall's
landscaping.  As the questions raised at the meeting Monday night indicated,
there was too much last-minute information presented to allow thorough and
thoughtful consideration of the plan.

I remain opposed to the removal of mature and healthy trees from the buffer
strip along State Highway 8.  I do not accept the University of Idaho's
position that "view lines" need to be provided to businesses at the mall, or
that the proposal only widens existing openings.  Many of these openings did
not exist before the illegal removal of vegetation in November of 2000.

While I applaud the proposal to increase the number of trees within the mall
parking lot and along Farm Road, I fail to see the justification for
removing and/or relocating this many trees from the buffer strip. Please
review the proposal carefully before your decision on March 11.
Sincerely,
Kenton Bird
517 East B St.
Moscow





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