b'C H A P T E R E I G H TNext: Phase II. Before the tailoring on that draft was finished in February 2000, a core of FCW directors (Hellfach, Kimball and Olmsted, along with Mrs. Ecker) sat down with a Town Hall nucleus (Town Manager Hinchey, McDonald and Margaret Swanson). It had not gone well. Said Kurt Hellfach, it became obvious that there were differing opinions on how the bylaws should be changed.To that, George Olmsted added that the FCW consultants output so far was naturally being resisted in Town Hall. But, he underscored, it was imperative for FCW to work with the Planning Board and Community Developmenthardly the last time this obligation was stressed within FCWIn his Phase II, Pessolano looked at how other communities dealt with planning issues, and he studied the Cape Cod Commissions Zoning Bylaw models. With that phase behind, he now faced a stiffer challenge: his Phase III, dead-lined for March 2000, called for drafting specific zoning amendments. And in time, he came up with nine. Facing that sheaf of revisions, FCW acted on advice from the Cape Cod Commissions executive director, Margo Fenn. She had recommended to Ecker/Geiger:pick your battles. Dont bite off more than you can chew. That made great sense to FCWs directors, so they cut Pessolanos nine amendments down to seven.At that point, Debby Ecker and John Geiger figured they should bring the drafts into the real world. That meant running the amendments before Douglas Wells, chairman of the Zoning Board of Appeals. There was every likelihood that the revisions might eventually go before ZBA; the two delegates from FCW wanted Doug Wellss reactions up front. They waited with anticipation as he read through the proposals. To their chagrin, the ZBA chairman found major problems with the draft, recalls Mrs. Ecker. It was shocking to us.In hindsight, though, Geiger believes that Pessolano had done what we FCW director John Geiger, a keyasked him to do, and for precise wording of player in the Quality of Lifethe revisions, theyd have to bring in a lawyer. project with Debby Ecker, joinedTheir candidate: Jonathan Witten, partner in her in initiating an effort to revisethe Sandwich firm of Horsley & Witten. A the local Zoning Bylaw as adecade earlier, Wittens partner, Scott Horsley, means for guiding the swift runhad helped complete the Stage Harbor Manof development. agement Plan.133'