Article: Panning out on plan man.(Letters: keep those cards, letters, and e-mails coming.)

having read all Having the slam-dunks about Don Gardner in your April issue ("Letters," page 15), I feel compelled to respond to the hypocritical editorials against stock-plan designers. I wholeheartedly agree that each home built should be a personal, individual expression of the homeowner, as unique in character as the family or individual occupying it. However, being that we all live in the real world of "haves" and "have-nots," not everyone can afford to design, build, and live in a custom-design home.

Who are those elitist design professionals to deny them that right or force upon them what they clearly cannot afford? If those designers and architects were ...

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