Bureaucracy and personal attacks stymie plan for houses; ‘No way are we going to live in Egg Harbor’

Matthew Sagorac is ready to walk away from what some claim is the soul of Egg Harbor.

Sagorac is the owner of a lovely piece of property right on Green Bay, upon which sits the husk of what once was one of the finest lodges in Door County.

At one time, Sagorac wanted to tear down what a local fire inspector and engineer say is now an unredeemable firetrap to make way for homes, one of them for him and his family. His request awaits a hearing before the Egg Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals.

Now, he says, he’d rather not. Whipsawed by a public outcry that has included verbal attacks on his wife and on his children, who attend school in the Gibraltar Area School District, Sagorac says he has

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