[Vision2020] A Kirk Cathdral l as a gateway to Moscow'

[Bev Bafus]

The Wilson-Hoffman-Gray parcel development is in full swing... Drive up
North Polk and check it out...

Or come by my place at the end of Pintail, and I'll point out the sights!

Bev
  -----Original Message-----
  From: vision2020-bounces at moscow.com
[mailto:vision2020-bounces at moscow.com]On Behalf Of keely emerinemix
  Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 4:11 PM
  To: donald huskey; vision2020 at moscow.com
  Subject: Re: [Vision2020] A Kirk Cathdral l as a gateway to Moscow'


  How in the world can a piece of land between a half-acre and an acre in
size accommodate not only a large church building, but the parking space
congregants will need?  Surely they're not planning on using any Gritman
parking space!

  And how does the proxy thing work, anyway?  It seems at some point that
the seller would be made aware of the real purchaser and still be within his
or her legal right to interrupt the sale.  Were purchase and building funds
loaned to Christ Church, to a sudden LLC made up of elders, or to a single
person who, I would presume, then secured a promise to have the church pay
the mortgage -- and who, then, acted as co-signer or guarantor for whom?
Will the building be tax-exempt as a church, or will we see the same
questions being raised and yet not answered this time around?

  And will the new "cathedral" also have classroom space for a
newly-expanded New St. Andrews, whose administrators insist that their
having complied with the city's parking requirements means they are free to
raise their previously agreed-upon enrollment cap?  Will increases in NSA's
future enrollment be assured -- to 250?  500?  1,000, including
alternative-classics scholars? -- now that parking for the new sanctuary can
be used, presumably, by the earnest and sweater-vest clad?

  And what of the urban-renewal aspect of that and nearby parcels?  Is this
what the City had in mind by "urban renewal"?  A large church on about half
an acre?  Really?

  Is someone in City government going to ask these questions?

  If the proposed Wilson-Hoffman-Gray subdivision on North Polk comes into
being -- and I'd invite you all to take a look at the many iterations of
building plans and plats the three have offered to the City; it's, in my
mind, a Second Circle of Hell-type subdivision -- will we have the Kirk
effectively heralding the North and South edges of Moscow?  Perhaps we can
take steps now to make sure they don't attempt to have the state line
moved -- with a little hard work and bonhomie, why not try for the West
entrance as well?  (I don't worry about the East; after all, that's just for
Troy and Bovill, a demographic entirely unnecessary to plans for the Oxford
of the Inland Northwest).

  Or could it be that the new parcel will be used to house the Christ Church
Community Food Bank?  Oh, wait.  That'd just be silly.

  keely








  "And these women that you spit on as they try to change their worlds/
  Are immune to your consultations . . . they're quite aware of what they're
going through"
  (With apologies to David Bowie)




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    From: donaldrose at cpcinternet.com
    To: vision2020 at moscow.com
    Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2007 13:16:00 -0700
    Subject: [Vision2020] A Kirk Cathdral l as a gateway to Moscow'


    Visionaries:



    Today, according to my source, the land deal for the projected Kirk
Cathedral will close.  A proxy was selected to purchase the land since, I am
told, the Kirk has had difficulty securing land after the seller is made
aware of the buyer.  The plan is to build on the little tiny triangle across
from Gritman that is only .7 of an acre.  The building will accommodate a
projected 1,000 to 1,200 people.  What is a church (or any non property tax
paying entry) doing on land designated for urban renewal, you ask?  Ms. Lund
and I have raised that question several times over the past two years with
little success.  Perhaps the time is ripe to reopen the question.  Or, has
Doug Wilson finally succeeded in making a very concrete statement about his
claim that Moscow is his town?



    Rose Huskey







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