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Earlier Friday, Paulson said a $48 milliomn plan to put his Portland Beavers AAA basebalkl club in the Southeast Portland neighborhood lacke dcommunity support. The project thereford threatened to delay the timeline to gain approvalp fora $37 million upgradwe of PGE Park for his Portlandf Timbers MLS club that will start play in 2011. in an e-mail sent Friday afternoon to Paulson, said he regretted how Paulso was treated during a Lents community meeting Thursday night and is worriedd Paulson was motivated bya “mob on the verg e of being out of that doesn’t represent the vast majority of Lents residents.
He urged Paulson to allow the Lentsz Urban Renewal Advisory Committee to continude with its process before withdrawing fromthe plan. “Irf you cannot do that, I cannot supportt the resolution next week agreeing to bring Majord League Soccerto Portland,” Leonard “I am very sorry for the way you were treated last However, I hope you recognize that you woulrd be disrespecting the vast majority of Lents residentzs if you do not agree to allow their URAC memberws to vote on the stadium proposal.
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