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...People who hadn't talked with each other for years were sitting around the bargaining table in quite friendly discussions," John Pitkin, one of the community negotiators, says...
...Once we got momentum going, it all went very quickly," Pitkin says...
There are still possible snags. Perhaps the company's architects will not be able to draw up plans conforming to the new use guidelines-"they obviously think they can do it, though," Pitkin says. The Planning Board might turn thumbs down on the new plans-but they seemed happy with news of the compromise at an informal meeting last week. Or, it might turn out after all these years that two feet under Parcel 1B there is a gigantic marsh ready to swallow any development...
...Portrait of Sarah Pitkin," an oil by Marguerete Walsh, is alarmingly real. A woman in an Indian gauze shirt seems to harbor distrust and fright. The plain background makes the portrait more believable; Sarah Pitkin could be sitting in your own home. The figure's emotions are made larger than life through the proportions of the painting itself...
Still, some experts think the trend away from mobility may be temporary, a product of recession and the wildly inflated housing market. John Pitkin, senior research associate at the M.I.T.-Harvard Joint Center for Urban Studies, argues that if housing starts had not declined in recent years, people would be leapfrogging from house to house at record rates...