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the standards was unreasonably costly. He challenged the commission to prove that these owners had ever voted for the district in the first place, and said "we want out of it." He said he believed the district had not been administered consistently. He cited a case in which an owner, Mrs. Buss, had lost chances to sell her property because the commission had refused to let her sell. He felt this woman should be compensated for her loss. Also, he considered it unfair to impose standards on homeowners; they should be allowed to do as they wished with their own property. He concluded by accusing Mr. Oxian of setting a poor example of historic preservation, and offering to distribute photographs of Mr. Oxian's own property. Mr. Oxian said the commission had kept complete records of the votes taken when the district was formed. He also denied that the commission had ever told Mrs. Buss not to sell her property. He also said that the property Mr. Shafer had criticized did not belong to him. Mr. Brink, owner of 1352 Lincolnway East, then spoke. He said he had bought his property from the Veteran's Administration, not then realizing it was in a historic district. He had begun re -siding the building to improve the property. In the midst of the work, the commission had stepped in and stopped the re -siding. Also, he said, he had lost two bids to sell the property, and offered to show the contracts. These losses he ascribed to the district. Next to speak was Mr. Paskewitz of 1342 Lincolnway East. He objected to the runaway shelter, saying it had been put in the district without the permission of the homeowners. The residents, he said, had been vandalizing a fence belonging to Mrs. Buss. He wanted the commission to do something to stop them. Mrs. Evelyn Janosik of 1520 Ottawa Court then spoke. She conceded that she had not suffered personally because of the district, but felt this was because she was affluent enough to abide by the standards. Her neighbors were not all so well-off, and could not afford these standards. Further, she said it was not right to impose standards so strict that people actually lost their property. (To support this statement, she cited the case of the previous owners of 1352 Ottawa Court, whose mortgage had been foreclosed). She said she considered the district "a definite hardship" for the residents. Mr. Oxian said the previous owners of 1352 Ottawa Court