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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What has the developer proposed that requires making peace with the neighbors? That is a very charged statement, particularly from someone who wants them to host a public facility for no good reason.

All developers need to make peace with neighbors. That's just a fact of life.  I didn't mean it to be a charged statement or even a subtle threat. It is the way every urban, suburban and rural area handles developments large and small. It is part of the process. This area recently completed a battle over the Cathedral Commons that lasted more than a decade.   Just down the street, GDS proposed a relatively modest - (relative to what will happen at Fannie Mae - not relative to anything else) project and got shellacked.

The reality is that there will be major opposition no matter what the developer proposes - even if its a butterfly. That's life in the big city.[/quote]

To sell Cathedral Commons at the zoning board, the developers offered to install a round planter with benches on the corner of Wisconsin and Idaho, by the present eyeglasses store.  Kind of appropriate, because if you blink as you go past there you will miss seeing it.  That was the big "community amenity" that CC provided.  If they got by with such a paltry thing in order to get PUD density, what makes you think that the Fannie purchaser will build a community pool ?!  More like a little fountain perhaps....  [/quote]

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