NATCHEZ &8212; A meeting has been set for Nov. 7 and 8 to come up with a blufftop condo design that will meet both the developers&8217; needs and the city&8217;s preservation ordinance and design guidelines.

Mimi Miller of the Historic Natchez Foundation, which is setting up the meeting, said architectural delineator James Piatt of Boston and consultant Chris Chadborne, who will facilitate the meeting, have said they&8217;ll take part.

Piatt &8220;is an artist as well as an architect. He has a talent for sketching out the designs people are talking about as they&8217;re talking about them,&8221; said Miller, director of education and preservation for the foundation.

Larry L. Brown Jr., a developer on the proposed condo project along with Ed Worley, said Monday he hopes to attend the meeting but that, in any case, Worley-Brown&8217;s architects will be there.

&8220;Our goal since the Preservation Commission meeting have been to work toward a compromise, toward a design that&8217;s more in line with what the commission feels will be congruent with what&8217;s already in the area and what they envision for downtown and still meets our goals,&8221; Brown said.

For her part, Miller said she hopes the meeting &8220;will put the developers, the foundation, the Natchez community and all the parties (involved) talking from the same page. The community as a whole favors a condominium development but is also concerned about what it looks like.&8221;

Preservationists and locals have said the $19 million condo development Worley and Brown propose for the site &8212; with more than 53 units, standing five stories tall &8212; doesn&8217;t fit in with the character of the surrounding buildings and isn&8217;t in keeping with Natchez&8217;s preservation ordinance or design guidelines.

City officials have said that such a development is needed to help boost Natchez&8217;s struggling economy and act as a catalyst for further development along the riverfront.

The commission hasn&8217;t acted on the Worley-Brown request yet, instead giving the developers more time to work out, with architects hired by the Historic Natchez Foundation, design changes that would help the complex fit the city&8217;s preservation rules.