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Article: Hostility at Fresno City, Calif., Affordable Housing Hearing Shocks Developer.

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By Jerry Bier, The Fresno Bee, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 21--The Fresno City Council hearing in which his bond application for a 324-unit affordable housing complex was denied was like no other he had attended, developer Peter Herzog testified Wednesday.

"The jeers, the chanting, interrupting of speakers, the hostility of the crowd," said Herzog, asked to recall the mood of the March 1997 meeting.

The council denied the application for Wellington Place, a proposed low-income complex near Herndon and Polk avenues in northwest Fresno. Herzog and his partner, Michael Conway, later filed a $27 million lawsuit in federal ...

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