Members of the development control committee, which met on Wednesday, had again been urged to reject the application re-submitted in July.

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The application was re-submitted in 2008 for the same overall size but a reduction in the number of units from 29 to 19.

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The application for this patent was first filed in 1990 and has been rejected, modified, re-submitted, opposed, and updated during the course of its prosecution.

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