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Window war

The O'Neals vs the HDC

by Eve Silberman

posted 10/15/2008

Last spring Heather O’Neal asked the Ann Arbor Historic District Commission for permission to re-place three rotting windows in her B&B, the Eighth Street Trekkers’ Lodge. The HDC made two site visits—and denied the request.

According to O’Neal, a representative “rapped on the bottom of one sash and proclaimed, ‘These windows can be repaired!’”

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