Over the next several months, the township spent $17,000 in township funds to defend itself against two appeals by a grassroots group of 16 township residents who opposed the supervisors' decision to grant PREIT a waiver request to permit a condominium form of ownership at White Clay Point. The appeals were filed on Dec. 12, 2011 and Jan. 3, 2012, and received oral arguments in a West Chester courtroom on April 13, 2012, before The Hon. David F. Bortner. Entitled "Daniel M. Linderman, et al., appellants v. the Board of Supervisors of New Garden Township, Appellee," the two appeals stated that the appellant believed that PREIT's request for a waiver of subdivision failed to comply with the terms of Section 6(A) of the Settlement Agreement between the board and PREIT, reached on Sept. 10, 2007, and further, that the grant of the waiver constituted "an error of law." The group, known as Friends of New Garden, won its first appeal in the Chester County Court of Common Pleas in Jan. 2012.