[Vision2020] Zoning Summit Reminder

[Craine Kit]

Just a reminder. Hope to see lots of people there.

Kit Craine


Zoning Summit
Thursday, November 9, 2006
7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Silver Room
Best Western Inn, Moscow, Idaho

It's called Catch-22. The Moscow City Council hears a steady  
procession of petitions to make the
comprehensive plan comply with zoning districts which are designed to  
accommodate a planned
development. The hearings are governed by laws which require the  
opposite: the project must
comply with the zoning which must comply with the plan. Trying to  
administering one system
with the procedures for the other isn't working for either the  
developers or the community. To
solve this problem, Moscow needs to decide which approach is best for  
us—what is in the code
or in practice?

On Thursday, November 9th, the Palouse Center for Conflict  
Management, Inc. will conduct a
Zoning Summit is to ask that question. It will be from 7:00 PM to   
9:30 PM in the Silver Room
of the Best Western in Moscow, Idaho.  The workshop will introduce  
different approaches to
managing development and try to reach a consensus as to which system  
the participants prefer.
The results will  be presented to the Moscow City Council for  
consideration during the upcoming
rewrite of the Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code.

The summit is sponsored by area community members, initiated by  
Moscow  resident Kit Craine,
and led by facilitators from the Palouse Center for Conflict   
Management, Inc., a community
mediation center. Speakers will be: Steven J. Hollenhorst, one of the  
co-principle investigators
for the Building Sustainable Communities: A New University and  
Community Partnership
initiative at the University of Idaho; Rich Levengood, City Manager  
of Breckenridge, Colorado
when their 30-year old non-traditional zoning approach was developed  
and instituted, and Kit
Craine, local systems advocate. For further information, contact Kit  
Craine, kcraine at verizon.net