“We smoke meat overnight,” Henriques said. “That’s how we cook meat, that’s how we serve the product that we think we should serve. And basically the conversation (with Lee) kind of devolved to ‘What are you trying to tell me, that one complaining person can get a business shut down?’ He said yes.”

A man who spoke several times at the meeting, but declined to give his name to a reporter, said he was one of the complaining neighbors who is dealing with the barbecue smell and said Henriques and White refused to meet with him, which led to the involvement of the ALRC.

“All we’re asking for is to sit down and meet,” he said. “Rightly or wrongly, we got the perception at the beginning of this that Clement and Maureen, you weren’t interested in talking to us unless you had to. You said you wouldn’t do anything unless you had to and that’s when everything just spiraled out of control. Would I go back and do things differently? I probably would have. I don’t want this kind of conflict. I just want to sit down together and figure this out. What if we agree on some solutions and try them out, I don’t expect them to be 100 percent, I don’t think anyone here does. I just want to meet somewhere in the middle.”