b'C H A P T E R E I G H TAs playing coach of Chathams Government, Town Manager Bill Hinchey has had four years of observing the communitys volunteer committees in motion. Thinking back to when FCWs Bylaw project began rolling in 1999, he says without hesitation, I can do nothing but commend (FCW) for what (it) did.But Flinchey has other colors on his palette. The landscape tells him that Chatham should have considered writing a comprehensive Zoning Bylaw years and years ago. But it didnt. Then along came FCW, aiming to revise the Bylaw piecemeal. That was unfortunate, Hinchey believes. Hence, if the FCW effort was not successful, it was because of one primary reason: we know that if were going to change the Zoning Bylaw .it needs to be done comprehensively. (It) has to be done in its entirety.That will be the only way, he says, for the town once and for all to face up to a basic question: do residents want to amend the Bylaw to be much more strict about growth? That would entail putting together a comprehensive set of regulations.Failure to draft such a complete overhaul, as opposed to FCWs more- limited approach, generated bad feeling, explains Bill Hinchey. It had a lot to do with egos on both sides. Inevitably, communication problems arose. Do I accept some of the blame for that? the Town Manager asks himself. Yes, I do. However, rather than let differences between staff and FCW simmer unresolved, Manager Hinchey has had conversations with his people. When you give professional advice and its not accepted, he told them, you back off .If your opinion is you dont think (amendments) are enforceable, I dont care. Were going to enforce them because thats what Town Meeting said. Thats our job.And if the matters are overturned in court, then so be it. As to whether his staff harbored any resentments stirred up by the FCW-initiated project, Bill Hinchey is emphatic: I will tell them not to, and they wont. But that doesnt happen on the other side of the ledger.Finally, the Town Manager expects his employees to learn from this Bylaw episode. He is insistent on that. I have no doubt whatsoever, he states, that my staff, at my direction, will learn from this process, will mend their ways to achieve my goal: to get a revised Zoning Bylaw before Town Meeting.Then theres the opinion of FCWs leader, George Olmsted. Through the long months of this projects maturation, he made a consistent effort to keep the lines open between Bill Hinchey and himself. Both stepped in to try to advance the unfolding interplay of the Bylaw amendment effort. For his part, Olmsted well knows what FCWs board learned from what he calls the never-to-end saga of meshing land use laws with Chathams carrying capacity and natural resource preservation.146'