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So where does that leave Columbine Knolls?

John Gross, an attorney and Columbine Knolls-area resident, says he fully expects that Shiloh representatives will press for special-use permits that would allow them to stay put. "Then, when they're denied," he says, "we anticipate that they will sue." If the county misses its 2002 deadline, "the neighbors will be upset," Gross says, but the question then becomes not what Columbine Knolls residents will do, but what the county will do. "That's what we would react to."

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Holliday is less than optimistic.

If "serious site planning" for the proposed facility doesn't begin by December 1 of this year, he believes the county could miss its deadline. In that case, he says, "we'll have to do something different."