ABSTRACT: Highlights of the news article entitled ‘Flanders Fields: Peace settlement possible in long-standing Carmel dispute’ by Robin Urevich, the Monterey County Weekly, are presented. A link to the complete article, including comments by readers, is provided.
• “We’ve had a number of conversations since last November,” says Carmel Mayor Sue McCloud. “The doors are open. We’ve made some suggestions and haven’t heard anything from the other side.”
A subsequent CORRECTION stated “the Flanders Foundation attorney preservationists says she has responded to McCloud’s suggestions and the mayor now acknowledges that she has heard back from her.”
• ”The antagonists faced off in court on Feb. 10, but even as they argued their cases, it appeared that a settlement could be in the works.”
Comments by 'Fed Up Carmel Resident,' 'A Peace Settlement, No Way' and 'Frustrated in Carmel' further illuminate the issue.
• “The city has spent more than $425,000 in the Flanders fight, and short of a settlement, no end to the fiscal hemorrhaging is in sight.”
A subsequent CORRECTION stated that “The city has spent more than $425,000 in legal costs in the Flanders dispute; all told, the city of Carmel has spent nearly $1 million.”
(Source: Flanders Fields: Peace settlement possible in long-standing Carmel dispute, Robin Urevich, Monterey County Weekly, February 11, 2010)
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One of the real travesties of the vote to sell Flanders is the belief held by many voters that the Flanders Foundaton is to blame for all the taxpayer monies spent on the sale. Let's face it, if the mayor had made a good faith effort to find a leasee for the mansion in her 10 years in office and pursued that end like the First Murphy House/Carmel Heritage Society, instead of stubbornly spreading myths about Flanders, none of the monies would have been spent because EIRs would not have been necessary and lawsuits would not have been filed based on the EIRs.
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