[Vision2020] Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work

[Garrett Clevenger]

g writes:

"Seriously, are you actually suggesting that it would be better that life long residents of the area leave rather than you having to endure a minor change to the little paradise that you and only you have managed to discover?"


Perhaps my statement is a bit facetious, but I doubt I'm the only one who wants Moscow to not grow like everywhere else. I doubt I'm the only one who doesn't want to misuse resources, and grow at any cost. I'm fairly certain there are people who have lived here longer than you who understand what I mean. Does their opinion count less than yours?

My conservative view is to leave well enough alone. Yes, this area is unique, and will only become less so if it's allowed to be taken over by strip malls and walmarts. 

I don't want the corridor to become filled with strip malls. That's not my decision to make, but I am opposed to Moscow selling water and sewer services to Hawkins to facilitate an out of state predatory development twice the size of the palouse empire mall, and that may take 1 to 2% of Moscow's water. I have a right as constituent of Moscow to state my case.

Hawkins is not a local developer. The stores in that mall more than likely won't be local stores. I don't consider them to have any more right to decide to build as I have a right to state my opinion.

Of course businesses should come to Moscow. I don't have a list of stores I'm strictly against operating here, but when you're talking about Hawkins specifically, or super walmarts, it seems to me we really should consider the affects they are going to have.

I'm not sure if there's a certain amount of time you consider before you let us outsiders in to your priveleged place of being the deciders, but I've been on the Palouse since 1991 and loved Moscow from that day. I moved to Moscow in 1997, bought a house in 1999, and plan to stay here a long time to raise my kids. So, like it or not, you'll have to get used to those of us who have just as much right to voice their views. 

The real natives were kicked out to the reservations, anyways, so if you really think your argument is sensible, go ask the Nez Perce how they feel about what we're doing to their original homeland. That was growth at any cost, too, and not much different philosophically than promoting businesses that rely on exploitation of other countries to get the cheap goods we so richly deserve. Living beyond our means, to hell with the poor people left to pay.

The Nez Perce weren't given a choice to stay. They were made to leave the Palouse, to make way for the American dream...

gclev




--- On Tue, 3/10/09, g. crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> From: g. crabtree <jampot at roadrunner.com>
> Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Walmart Gets Nod for Starting Work
> To: garrettmc at verizon.net, vision2020 at moscow.com, donovanjarnold2005 at yahoo.com
> Date: Tuesday, March 10, 2009, 8:59 PM
> "Since there are plenty of places that already have all
> the shopping 
> amenities available, it seems like if someone is
> dissatisfied with what the 
> Palouse has to offer, they should make a change for
> themselves, rather than 
> forcing everybody else to live with these developments and
> the consequences 
> they will cause."
> 
> *ATTENTION RESIDENTS OF THE PALOUSE*
> 
> Garrett Clevenger, bug farmer and alleged musician has now
> arrived in our neck of the woods and has found it good! We
> may now trap this fly in amber lest he be discomfited.
> 
> Seriously, are you actually suggesting that it would be
> better that life long residents of the area leave rather
> than you having to endure a minor change to the little
> paradise that you and only you have managed to discover?
> 
> Would you be so good as to provide for us a list of 
> businesses  and the locations where they might exist that
> would meet with your approval? Clearly those of us who have
> lived, worked, and owned property here and have brought the
> area up to the standard that you find so favorable are no
> longer up to the task.
> 
> g