<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/_dev-testing/final/magazine/winter-2006/let-hearings-proceed.html" dsn="news"><pubDate/><title>Let the Hearings Proceed</title><excerpt>Plans to alleviate overcrowded residence halls and inadequate classroom space are progressing slowly through a governmental maze of public hearings and critique. Montecito Planning Commissioners have poured over the details of thick environmental documents that conclude the Master Plan update is better for the environment and neighbors than the plan approved 30 years ago. Still, a small group of opponents continues to protest the project, calling Westmont officials untrustworthy.</excerpt><author/><image>
            
            <img src="http://blogs.westmont.edu/magazine/files/2006/11/PreferredPlan.jpg" alt="Proposed new facilities aerial photo"/>
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