The Vail Town Council had originally turned down the project, then approved a revised proposal in March. But adversaries of Solaris -- who felt that the building was too big for Vail Village's quaint Bavarian aesthetic ("Vail at the Crossroads," May 4) -- engineered a referendum on the council's approval. The small-town debate got big-city headed as the rival campaigns took out newspaper ads, conducted get-out-the-vote drives and private polls, and even threatened a lawsuit ("A Hit for the Village People" .) But in the end, the village people spoke. And they want to go bowling. — Jared Jacang Maher