If any member of the Lewes Historic Preservation Architectural Review Commission wished to have the same considerations for demolition of their family home, one wonders if they too would encounter the resistance being experienced by the Daisey family of Lewes. Would they too have to fight for their 13th and 14th constitutional rights to life, liberty and property? Why is it so important to force a family to maintain a substandard home when they have the means to do what hundreds of others have done and build a modern, livable home within the standards of Lewes' architectural standards?
Those of us who have seen this area grow over the past 60 years know there are huge mansions today where fishing shacks once stood in Lewes. The Daisey family deserves the same equity in building for their family history and future as anyone else.
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