As developers Nick Sinatra and William Paladino work to build support for their plan to convert the former Women & Children's Hospital of Buffalo campus into Elmwood Crossing, neighborhood opposition is slowly building against their effort to create a single set of zoning rules for the entire property to make the project easier and simpler.
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