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DEVELOPER BECOMES JUST ANOTHER GUY

We had the informal meeting with the guy (and wife) who want to erect a monument to themselves across from our pool.

I only have one objection. I don't want them to have two stories so they are looking at my bare ass when I go swimming.

Or more.

The upshot of the meeting was that there is some movement.

As it turned out and, as is often the case with these things, everyone developed some human dimensions and got a bit friendlier than before.

At the end, he was even marking his plans up with various alternatives that would make us happy.

They 'had to' ask 60 people to this—within 400 feet—and only four of us showed up. Three households.

That is normal too.

And good.

It let us all become a bit more relaxed and fess up to true and non-rhetorical positions.

I was not surprised at this.

I spent 35 years in a business that taught people just this fact along with the skills to make it work.

I would like to say that my abilities in team leadership came to the fore here.

Not so.

I also know that a participant with an axe to grind cannot lead or, for that matter, even do a very good job of being positive and helpful.

I can be an asshole just as well as the other guy.

But, we all took off our asshole hats and got somewhere.

Meaning that we got off our positions and maybe we can reach some kind of rapprochement.

It was a good exercise.

I shook hands with them at the end. Wished them luck.

Progress.

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