The Thompson Rezone hearing for the Walmart site is in the City Council Chambers. There was incorrect reporting in the Daily News on Saturday (repeated by us here). What the article should have read is if the crowd attending is too large for the council chambers, overflow will be directed to the 1912 Bldg where […]
Correction to the item below, see this!
The May 1 City Council meeting to decide the rezone for the Thompson property in east Moscow (aka Walmart site) has been moved to the great room of the 1912 center 412 East 3rd St (just up the street from City Hall). Meeting time is 7PM.
We expect the landowner […]
On Monday May 1, the City Council will hear an appeal from CLC Developers of Spokane to rezone 77 acres across the Troy Highway from the Moscow Cemetery to Motor Business. If approved the rezone will allow big box stores such as SuperWalMart to locate in Moscow. On March 8, the Planning and Zoning Commission […]
A free showing of Frontline’s “Is Wal-Mart Good for America” will take place at the Kenworthy Performing Arts Center on April 20, 7:00 p.m. A community discussion of the film and Wal-Mart’s proposal to build a Supercenter in Moscow, moderated by Kenton Bird, Director of UI’s School of Journalism and Mass Media, will immediately follow […]
Mark Solomon’s Town Crier column (DNews 3/8) and the letter to the Editor by Michael Kyte (below), each suggest a more community-based approach to development is needed.
Come out, Wed, March 22, 7:30 PM, City Hall, to be part of the start of that conversation. This is not a NewCities meeting which will end in […]
Come out to dinner this Wednesday, March 22, and warm up for a P&Z meeting on the Comprehensive Plan. This time the no-host dinner is at Basilio’s Moscow, 100 W 4th St, beginning at 5:30. This event is organized by the local No Super Wal-Mart organization. Wear your button, or get one when you […]
You’ve signed the petition over 1000 strong. Now we’d like to put a face to that name. We’d like your photo, smiling out and saying “Yes, Moscow.” Your image will appear in public, without your name, along the images of other supporters. It might be in a photo collage in a store window, or […]
Special Council Workshop, Thursday, March 2, 7PM University Inn - University Room
Moscow residents probably already got a bulk mailing from the City about the next NewCities event. Look it over. Topic include:
“Grow without sprawl”, “Reimagine the ‘Strip’”, and more
These are some of the arguments that citizens made to P&Z on Feb 22 against the Wal-Mart […]
After the Daily News featured the Yes Moscow/ No SuperWalmart button on the front page (thanks to all who wore buttons to the P&Z hearing that DNews was covering), I got the idea for another publicity project.
The problem is, most people don’t wear buttons in everyday life, so how could we put a face […]
Citizens of Moscow, and beyond, turned out in great numbers to speak against the rezone. But nothing got decided.
Now we need to turn out, wearing our buttons, on March 8, for the deliberations and vote. We need to impress on P&Z that we can listen as well as we speak.