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

[Marilyn Schoppet]

Sounds great to me!  I say let's get rid of everybody!  And, the fire trucks will cease blaring down the street making my dog howl.  

Marilyn

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From: "JayRite at aol.com" <JayRite at aol.com>
To: marilyn_schoppet at verizon.net; medicinewoman56 at comcast.net; towntalk at riverdale-park.org
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 4:50:45 PM
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] TownTalk Digest, Vol 13, Issue 11



 

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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