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CoHo didn't respond to that offer for eight months. Then, in a two-page letter dated October 7, a co-housing rep offered to sell half the property - 7800 square feet - for $40,000. Though apologizing for a delayed response, the representative called the offer a "gesture of good will," as opposed to an "obligation." The "gesture" doubled the price of the land and trimmed off 1800 acres.
Co-Housing project developer Don Schramm disagrees. "I can see that from her point of view, this issue is the most important thing in the world," he said on Friday, sitting at a plastic table in an unfinished CoHo lobby. "But we also have a lot of other, more serious, things on our plates." Schramm said he bases his figures on ones provided by [Michael Monte] during early negotiations. Monte said, however, that those estimates were given within a "what if" context and shouldn't be considered official."If co-housing's coverage doesn't look good, I think [Schramm] needs to look at the way he's treating us," suggested [Jeanne Keller]. "The way that we're being treated would look bad in any newspaper." She added that CoHo and CEDO were brought to the bargaining table this Monday, only after Seven Days turned its attention to the conflict. CoHo may have hoped to avoid unflattering press coverage, Keller posited.See the full content of this document
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Co-Housing Settles Land Dispute with Neighbors
BURLINGTON - Who would have guessed a patch of blackberries could be the source of so much bitterness? For three years, a small wetland separating a new housing development from a cluster of four berry-friendly residential backyards has been the site of a heated bidding war. On Monday, the l...
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