The first award has been given in the amount of $2200.00 to a local senior homeowner who had a major plumbing issue.

The townhouses or duplexes would house just 75 families, but some 2,000 local homeowners organized to fight it.

This has been met with considerable political opposition by local homeowners and environmentalists.

Often these groups began as collaborations of local homeowners' associations.

That plan was abandoned after protests from local homeowners.

But often local homeowners find themselves in long, frustrating battles.

"But there is less of that now, because local homeowners complained."

It originally was an amenity offered to local homeowners.

But having the first family as local homeowners apparently carries only so much clout.

They also sent word to local homeowners that they were looking for houses to rent.