Opponents of "The Chauncey" Want to use Rezoning to Prevent Building: Iowa City Daily News Links, March 2

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Opponents of "The Chauncey" high rise and its shadow aren't giving up, writes Gregg Hennigan, and they are trying to fight the building with a rezoning application that would prevent a 20-story building from being built on that site.

The Press-Citizen has profiles of the two supervisor candidates: John Etheridge and Terry Dahms.

Mitchell Schmidt of the Press-Citizen writes that early voting in the supervisor race appears to be slow so far.

A nice story from Josh O'Leary of the PC about the lengthy struggle it took to reunite a family.

Gov. Terry Branstad nominated three to the Board of Regents, including a renominantion of regent Craig Lang.

Gov. Branstad wants so badly not to expand Iowa Medicaid with Obamacare that he's paying a consultant to give him an alternative to doing that. (Des Moines Register)

Alesha Crews of the Press-Citizen profiles a group of women who have formed "Iowa Tech Chicks" to help local women learn how to master technology.

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day: 

Three critics of Marc Moen’s “The Chauncey” project filed an application with the city this week seeking to have the land where the tower would go – on the northeast corner of College and Gilbert streets – rezoned to a classification that would not allow the building to go up.

The goal is to stop Moen’s $53.8 million project from happening, said Rockne Cole, one of the applicants and an Iowa City attorney. They’re fine with the site being redeveloped for a smaller commercial use.

“We would explicitly like to see a commercial site,” he said. “We do not want to see a 20-story building.”

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