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Jul. 25, 2009

It's All About Reaching Neighborly Solutions

Community mediation is a non-zero-sum, value-based, rights-seeking, joint session transformative dispute resolution process, writes Victoria Pynchon.

FORUM COLUMN

By Victoria Pynchon

Nearly every condominium complex harbors an outlaw - the man, woman, couple or family who refuses to follow the rules, such as the college kids who blast the woofers off their stereo system at 3 a.m., the elderly woman who doesn't clean up after her dog or the raucous family that plays "Marco Polo" in the community pool after midnight.

Offended and outraged, other homeowners make demands on their volunteer ...

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