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<div><b><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Update on Patriot Group Condos</FONT></b></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> At last Monday's Council meeting (7/3/06), the Patriot Group asked council </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> members what they thought of the condominium project at Dumm's Corner.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> The exchange was polite but firm. Three of the councilmembers (myself,</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Mary Donaldson, and Gerald Kiernan) found it unacceptable either because</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> of its height or other areas where it varied from the M-UTC guidelines and</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> because it would set a worrisome precedent. </FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> At the end of the session, Patriot announced: "I don't think this project ... is going </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> to go forward". and "We did enjoy working with you. ... we would certainly look </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> forward to working with you on another project".</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> And so it would appear that this project is stopped, at least in this form.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> You can read what the Gazette had to say about the meeting here:</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> <a href="http://www.gazette.net/stories/070606/portnew191449_31963.shtml">http://www.gazette.net/stories/070606/portnew191449_31963.shtml</a></FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> I think they may have gotten a few quotes wrong, but the gist of the</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> story is correct.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> -Rob</FONT><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Oppenheim</FONT></div>
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