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Show 7 PAGE 11 THE ZEPHYR APRIL 1994 K f Phyllis Wilson 'Tve heard it said that Moab may grow to 30,000 or more. I would really hate to see us go that far, but I would like to see some veiy light industry so that we could support shoe stores and department stores in this town and so that we didn't have to go out of town to shop. I think a population of 10,000 would be the absolute maximum, but I really like the friendly small town atmosphere we have now and I don't want to see it change." f t i Erjoy a quality atmosphere? CORE TO SOT TALES! Enjoy Drowsing? Dick Robertson f "I keep hearing about this here master plan and I wonder when we're going to get it. I sure hope it's better than the last one we had. The question asked here is how many people do we want to see in this valley. First we need a few things. We need a few requirements for pollution control and noise control. Once we get all that squared away, I think about 10,500 people would be about right and then we should stabilize it there. We'd do that by the same means we did back home where we kept the population exactly the same all the time. We did that like this: whenever a baby was bom some man left town. I f t i .1 lr ! i I ,1 I i i Participants this month were interviewed at Dave's Comer Market on March 18th. COME TO SOT TALES! Enjoy Qualify? COfflE TO 1 Miles Turnbull "My wife and I spend our winters here in Moab, from October to April. We live in a tourist town up in Washington the rest of the year. So I base what I have to say on my experience with a tourist economy. And of course, that's what Moab is becoming or has become, whether the people here are willing to face that or not Tourism is what's keeping, this town going. Leavenworth, Washington is only about 1,500 people and 6,000 in our school district...that's plenty. That's enough. I think Moab is maxing out for comfort Anything over 10,000 would be, in my view, catastrophic. It would change the whole complexion of the town and the feeling people have about this place. Not just the feeling of the people who live here, but the feeling of those who come here. People don't like to go to zoos. People who have reasonable amounts of money to spend which is what you want in a tourist economy don't want beer busts; they want more of a quality experience. Moab has developed that to a startling degree. But over 10,000, you start getting problems that nothing to do with tourism. You begin to get a much larger school and the influences that come with that And the more people you have in the community, the higher your crime rate is going to go. There are a certain number of weirdos per thousand people in the world. At this point, Moab might have seven and a half weirdos. Two and a half more weirdos is approaching critical mass. You know what I mean?" p I mSvP- SO TALES! 5 K83TH AMCJ STREET |