[RP TownTalk] TownTalk Digest, Vol 13, Issue 11

[JayRite at aol.com]

Ok,
I'm sorry. I ignored the first suggestion of this, but now I have to speak  
up.
 
Turning Riverdale Park into a gate community is the worst  idea that I've 
heard on this subject yet. (short of going to gravel streets  that is, but that 
was tongue and cheek).
You said that we have to take control. But you really mean that we need to  
hide behind steel gates. That IS NOT taking control. 
 
If this community becomes gated: 
-We will NEVER get businesses into the Town Center. EVER. No business in  the 
world is going to move to an area where their sales are limited  to a 
segregated few. We may even lose the businesses that are already  there.
 
-How do you include the portion of Riverdale that is on the West side of  
Route 1? Yes, check the maps. Riverdale Park is on the other side of Route 1  too.
 
-Marc trains will shoot straight through Riverdale Park to College Park  
without stopping. Guaranteed. 
 
-The fire department will no longer be able to support other communities  
efficiently, and vise versa. 
 
-Paying for this will mean a serious need to increase property tax to  pay 
for it. And I'm not even going there. 
 
-I would be leaving this community. I was born in DC and raised  in PG. And I 
will not cower away from traffic or crime. I want to live in  an open 
community. I want to continue to curse the elitist  society of University Park, and 
insist that the "blockade" that  they established where Queens Chapel and EW 
highway be blown to  smithereens! 
 
If either of you or any that support your notion of gating our wonderful  
town, in order to cower from the rest of society, continue to think that this is  
a good idea. I'd like to invite you to sell your homes and move to an already 
 established sterile-gated-Disneylike community far far away.
 
I'm sorry.
This is a very bad idea.
 
Jay Wright
 
 
 
 



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