b"C H A P T E R E I G H TDimensional Exemptions for Grandfathered Lots:brought Chathams grandfathering provisions into conformity with state law, without changing any protections.To lay people, those measures were esoteric and then some. But as Debby Ecker saw them at a later point, We really werent doing anything terribly drastic. Geigers postscript: Not compared with where we began. Even so, FCW could hardly ease up on its oars. Instead, its communications nucleus kept pulling, with advertorials in The Chronicle, a one-page fact sheet, newsletter copy, and speaking duty. Board President Olmsted drafted a letter to FCW members, emphasizing that it would take a two-thirds vote to pass the ZB revisions at Town Meeting, then asserting in bold face: WE NEED YOUR VOTE.By April, lawyer Jack Farrell was helmsman for FCW When selectmen met to look over the four Friends amendments, he stood to make several points. FCW had put a great deal of time and effortCape Cod Chronicle, May 3,2001in defining the revisions,Friends Get Clean Sweep On Endorsement Of Bylaw AmendmentsIt wok months, but,w.ithl,a _ wiK,,e lnxd, rhiec,kfatgl, reaenddtMihedc^rite rpira0 fvo!8r 0tsh ien acloundiendgibno tahrde v lp whl kereee we p ocar ane,yestwee., ksh e'Wel Oslamnsdte eda srasi odp, en, keep trying tohe said. In his judgment,C CHATHAM - coUve ,rbagce.ahamej ndmmenat! w.il,lameliorate the impact on doKiseen adnri cilkle sarirdtthveipil a,nhnei Fngr tbeonadrsd'cvoovteedra ngeo bt tyol aewn,- unhaanthimamou Ws vaotteer wbyay tsh efi pna.alrly.n smecgu broeadr tdh,e t shuep Fproiertn odf sa oilf ,o tthose deliberations had come up with a middle ground that made senseTwo weeks to go before Town Meeting.The Planning to everyone.(resultingBoard had voted unanimously in favor of the FCW in) something that fulfillsproposed Bylaw amendments.That meant that all the intent of the Townmajor Town boards favored the changes after months of and something that Towndebate and modifications.Meeting can support.When that session ended, selectmen had agreed to include the FCW articles on Town Meetings warrant. At that point, endorsements of these revisions had come from the Planning Board and the Finance Committee, as well as from the selectmen.On To Town MeetingMany of the big crowd that converged at the high school for Town Meeting on May 14 were hot under the collar. The issue was not FCWs four articles but an anticipated presentation on what to do about the ghostly Main139"