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23 <br />Sensible Change (cont’d) <br />Exmoor in 1968 to be used as an interpretive site. The Torian Cabin Museum was originally <br />built in 1845 along a creek near Dove, Texas. It was saved in the 1970s by the Grapevine <br />Historical Society and City of Grapevine, and moved to a lot near Grapevine City Hall, where <br />it is maintained as a pioneer museum. It is now recorded as a Texas Historic Landmark. In <br />fact, another Navarre Cabin, built by Pierre’s relative Peter Navarre, was moved to the Toledo <br />Botanical Garden as the centerpiece of an interpretive pioneer garden. <br />At the HPC meeting of February 17, 2020, legal counsel led ethics training for the <br />commissioners. During this training, it was explained that the commission’s primary <br />prerogative is not to enforce previously defined rules. It is to know when there are exceptions <br />and to use good judgment to make decisions that are in the best interest of the community <br />as a whole. Aside from the increased exposure to the community, education impact with <br />schools, and increased economic impact from tourism, we also find that the project has broad <br />public support. The museum held three well-publicised forums in September, 2023, as well as <br />one larger one in 2020, where the plan was presented and staff solicited input and answered <br />many questions from attendees. Many were enthusiastic, and a handful who were unsure <br />left reassured after learning more about the project. In the end, feedback was unanimously <br />positive from the 100+ attendees, and some have even taken it upon themselves to start <br />petitions in support among their colleagues and <br />neighbors. This has also been true in phone calls, <br />e-mails, and personal conversations outside the <br />forums. Though we understand that with any <br />change in the community there are certain to <br />be individuals who are not in favor, we welcome <br />the chance for dialogue and to be able to address <br />and incorporate their concerns as well. In the <br />end, we believe this project is in the best interest <br />of the community as a whole, and it is our hope <br />that these materials have shown that this is a <br />case where an exception is appropriate, so that <br />we might best use the Navarre Cabin to its <br />full potential. Travis Childs, then Director of School Programming, <br />educates children at Cabin Days