I just read your extremely interesting article and have sent the link to my maritime-oriented friends.
Barbara Benn, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Nice story! Really enjoyed it.
Pat Allen, Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico

Very interesting. Nice job.
T. G. Futch, III, La Madera, New Mexico

I enjoy reading your publication each month. I am looking forward to reading this month's edition more completely tonight. However, I did want to say how thrilled I was to see the Nexi report. A goup of us sat around the computer to watch the video. Wow! Good work.
Jack Beckley, Melrose, Massachusetts

Thank you for the beautiful pictures of the winners in the flower contest.
Martha Williams, Hampton, New Hampshire

Thank you Rye Reflections for that tantalizing recipe for a mouth-watering lobster sandwich. Can't wait to try it.
Jane Kirk, North Hampton, New Hampshire

The most important case affecting the Sanders Project is the case Nine A.LLC v. Town of Chesterfield. Sheila Burnham and her firm represented the Town of Chesterfield in that case and they prevailed. The N.H. Supreme Court said when you have a town plan to protect waterfront from intense development and the ordinance says 6 houses, you do not get to build 7. At Saunders when the ordinance says 1 house and 1 duplex on 2.8 acres, you do not get 6 houses. That would constitute re-zoning an area without the benefit of the public's vote.

The other important case which you missed was Welch v. Nashua, 108 NH. 92 (1967) which says it is the owner of the property who must bring the application for a variance, not the developer. Only if one attorney represents both the developer and the owner is that attorney's signature good enough. In the Saunders Project, Peter Loughlin signed the application for the developer, someone else represents the owner.

The new application for six 4-bedroom condominium units was also flawed because it used Exhibits from the prior application which on their face state "you must submit revised plans for permit amendment prior to any changes in construction details or sequences." The permits were not longer valid for 4-bedroom homes, when the original approvals included small homer with fewer bedrooms.

The new plan calls for three homes to exit onto Harbor Road which is the more traveled road of a corner lot with Mill Lane, which is a corner lot for all three homes which enter and exit from one driveway.

These are a few of the points not raised in the Rye Reflection article which were before the Rye ZBA which may cause confusion for the reader in understanding the ZBA's decision to decline the variances requested. The strongest point made by the members of the ZBA, however, is that the density of the plan is not supportive of the ordinances affecting the Coastal Overlay Zone where this 2.8 acres reside.
Mae Bradshaw, Rye, New Hampshire

Thanks for sending the Web site. It's so nice to read about things so familiar. My mom and Stan (Drinkwater) would have loved to read it, especially the article about the seals.
Terry Gavitt, Wildomar, California

It was a pleasure to read your article in Rye Reflections.  Thank you. Your "cover" photo of the seal is transcendent.
Sonya Merritt, HR Director, Star Island Corporation, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

I quoted a poem by Mr. Fowler in our office and it drew broad smiles. I met Mr. Fowler in 1990 at his home. I had stumbled upon a book of his poetry, called the publisher (certain that a man who had written a World War I poem was no longer living) and delighted to find he was in his early 90's, and despite being blind and having broken vertebrae in his back, still thoroughly clever and sharp. I Googled Mr. Fowler and found your site and reference to his poem to Oscar Leighton. I have read all of Mr. Fowler's poetry over and over through the years. I just wanted to thank you for giving him a home on the Internet.
Tom Gardner, CEO, The Motley Fool