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This week a petition was received at the Orange County Courthouse submitted by a south Floridian family, in the attempts to cease construction at the new Westgate Timeshare tower in Orlando´s main tourism district.

The Corredor family who have owned the property for over 30 years are refusing demands to vacate and have taken the issue to The Superior Court of California in an attempt to have the county retract its approval for the mammoth eighty unit timeshare project.

The proposed development, which has come under fire due to the errors in the planning application, is already nearly halfway through building the eight story building, with the boundaries to be set just a mere 12 feet from the Corridor family’s two story townhouse.

The petition states that the county approved planning permission should be revoked in full as the permissions granted infringe on the county’s guide on development, along with the standards set in place for the likes of the surrounding utilities, transportation and housing statutes.

The approval was granted on the fact that as stated by Westgate’s application, they owned the entire site of development which turned out to be completely bogus, as it is now clear that Westgate misled official channels to ensure their application was approved.

Despite not owning the Corredors property, Westgate made the decision to begin construction on the multi million dollar resort, with bulldozing crews arriving to begin tearing down the apartments around the shocked family. During the demolition Westgate erected a flimsy fence around the Corredor’s 1,125 square foot property, but this did not prevent the Westgate contractors from substantially damaging the exterior of their beloved holiday home, with the county then deeming the townhouse unsafe to reside in.

In an attempt to reach an agreement between both sides Westgate  failed when Corredor’s son refused to give a payout price to Westgate for the property and the timeshare company scoffed at his request that they rebuild the widow’s damaged townhouse.officials have now offering to rebuild the apartment at the same site or on a new site with a $50,000 dollar pay out to allow the family to re-furnish, along with that another offer to buy out at $150,000 dollars where Westgate can then offer the family a newly renovated unit in a different building but both were rejected by the Corredor’s.

As the family are absolutely devastated at the whole situation no wonder they have refused any offers of compensation that Westgate have suggested thus far.

The petition is still currently ongoing and at this time the courts are unable to comment, but one expects with this level of substantiated evidence in the Corredor’s favor, it should really be a clear cut case.

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