The owners of the treehouse in Holmes Beach — long the subject of controversy and lawsuits — are proposing terms to bring the matter to a close. Richard Hazen and Lynn Tran-Hazen submitted a letter June 16 to 12th Circuit Judge Charles Sniffen asking him “to consider issuing an order to mediate this case to conclusion immediately, upon terms both just and fair to all parties.”
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