[RP TownTalk] Cafritz update

Sun Sep 16 00:10:49 UTC 2007

 I think that we could use as much community space as we can get, Arletta. I also agree that the project has great promise for RP and we need as many positive voices around as we can find. Also, I will continue on my rant for connecting the Lafayete Ave side of RP and Town Center with their project as much as we can. This is where the new project can make genuine connections to our community through roadway connections and trails. We're lucky that the project needs our support so we can extract some promises to reconnect our citizens with each other for the good of the town. Please come out and support the project and greater physical connections to existing parts of RP.

Thanks,

Jim Coleman

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From: Dwight Holmes 

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Sent: Sat, Sep 15  5:45 PM

Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Cafritz update

    btw, the *DC* (or National, not sure which it's called) Children's Museum just got 'hijacked' by the new National Harbor project in southern PG Co (on the Potomac just south of the Wilson Bridge). Quite a coup.  

On 9/15/07, Arletta Gustafson arlettag at comcast.net> wrote:                              

Dwight,

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I have to agree with your observations. ?It  certainly did seem that the majority of those negative comments were voiced by  those in surrounding communities.? I plan on attending Tuesday's meeting  as well, so that I can hear as much as possible about the concerns and the  supportive comments also.? Since I am new to the town, this was my first  exposure to the project.? I found it to be very promising.? 

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Being a tree-huggin' hippie from Seattle I was pleased  with the amount of attention that seems to have been directed to making it as "green"  as possible.? 

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I noted that there will be room in the NE  corner for "community space", I would like to see some space made  on Main Street  for some sort of community center.? My hometown (county had 125,000) put the  county children's museum in it's historic downtown district and it  was a rousing success.? The museum worked a win-win rental deal with the  property owner and I just read that it has actually become so popular that they  are having to move.? While this may not be a great fit for this project, I  think it would be wonderful to have a place for the people of the neighborhood  to have meetings or such.? It would also be a place for youth groups like *ahem* 4-H and Boys and Girls Club (I hear  their building needs some work) and others could meet.? Matt (I think that was  his name) said that a good deal of Sr. housing is planned.? This building would  also be a good place for those seniors to gather.

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I may be way off base here, it HAS been  know to happen, but it's my small town experience trying to rear its ugly  head in the big city.

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Comments, please be gentle.?   J

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Arletta

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From:   towntalk-bounces at riverdale-park.org  [mailto:towntalk-bounces at riverdale-park.org] On  Behalf Of Dwight Holmes

  Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2007  1:34 PM

  To: TownTalk

  Subject: [RP TownTalk] Cafritz  update

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very briefly... we attended the Cafritz presentation at Riverdale  Elementary this morning.? we love the direction it's taking (no startling  new developments at all... happy to provide more details later... they said  they'd have their proposals up on their website "soon" ( http://www.cafritzpop.com/ ) ....)

  one observation: based on the sample of people who turned out this morning and  expressed their views, one would have to conclude that university park and  college park (calvert hills) residents love their communities *just* the way  they are, whereas we riverdalians long for the kinds of changes the Cafritz  folks are talking about -- and appreciate the way they are going about it. 

  if you like the general sense of their proposals and would like to see  something like this happen, i would urge you to turn out for the meeting this  Tuesday at 8, which is a repeat performance of this morning's meeting -- and  make yourselves heard.? right now, if things were decided by voice vote,  we'd lose easily!!   

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