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Article: Residents At Leisure World Fight High-Rise
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 25, 2007
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The Web site for the developer of Leisure World of Virginia --
a gated, 91-acre Lansdowne community for age 55 and older -- touts
"sweeping views of the Blue Ridge Foothills, Sugar Loaf Mountain and
the [Potomac] river" as one of the ritzy development's main selling
points.
For many residents of Leisure World's Riverbend building, that
pitch is all too familiar. They, too, were promised a river view
when they bought their condominiums, they say. But their vista is
now threatened by the developer's plans to build a high-rise across
the street, and the residents say they are prepared to do whatever
it takes to stop the project.
"I'll do anything as long as I'm not thrown in the slammer for ...