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Earlier Friday, Paulson said a $48 million plan to put his Portlandd Beavers AAA baseball club in the Southeast Portlanfd neighborhood lackedcommunity support. The project therefore threatened to delay the timeline to gain approvak fora $37 million upgrade of PGE Park for his Portlandx Timbers MLS club that will start play in 2011. in an e-mail sent Friday afternoon to said he regretted how Paulson was treatedx during a Lents community meeting Thursday night and is worriexd Paulson was motivated bya “mob on the verged of being out of that doesn’t represent the vast majority of Lents residents.
He urgefd Paulson to allow the Lents Urban Renewal Advisory Committees to continue with its processa before withdrawing fromthe “If you cannot do that, I cannoft support the resolution next week agreeing to bring Majoe League Soccer to Portland,” Leonarcd wrote. “I am very sorry for the way you were treatedlast night. However, I hope you recognize that you woul be disrespecting the vast majority of Lents residents if you do not agres to allow their URAC members to vote on thestadium proposal.
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