[RP TownTalk] TownTalk Digest, Vol 51, Issue 14

[Brian Boettger]

Sell the property and be out of it. I'd rather see it sold so that it can be improved as I don't want the town taking on the responsibility and financial burden. 
I certainly don't think we should be using our tax dollars to purchase more property that will require more tax dollars for maintenance and upkeep.
I run past that property nearly every morning and would love to see it returned to the park.
This post is nothing but fear. Fear of progress. Fear of change. 
 
Brian Boettger. Ravenswood Road.
 
 
> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:19:49 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Melissa Avery <m.avery at rocketmail.com>
> To: TownTalk at riverdale-park.org, Todd Whitehead
> <twhitehead76 at yahoo.com>, Adrienne Allegretti <adgealleg at hotmail.com>,
> Judy Glaes <glaes at email.com>
> Subject: [RP TownTalk] Dog Park, Old Club House and Proposed Field
> "improvements" at Riverdale Community Park
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> Friends,
> 
> Our town has owned the "Boys and Girls Club House" for 90 (Ninety) years.
> 
> One of our former mayors, Guy Tiberio, who was the longest running mayor in our 
> history, has advocated a different approach to our towns prized and important 
> property. He has advocated acquiring the adjacent land from MNCPPC, which is 
> possible, not through direct purchase, which is not possible because of 
> legislature passed in the 1930's, but can be accomplished through other avenues.
> 
> Our town's treasured property, which has been held since its inception, like the 
> Riversdale Mansion, should not be valued like a common real estate. Property 
> values throughout our country are at an all time low. We shouldn't sell? this 
> precious part our our town's beginning, which has been held onto through over 30 
> Mayor's stewardship's, just because one mayor thinks differently for a rather 
> questionable goal.
> 
> Once, this precious parcel is sold, it will, like our formal town center 
> property, no longer be under our control and this town sees the results of that 
> decision for the last 20 plus years. The "Boys and Girls Clubhouse", will be 
> sold to MNCPPC, which has the right to "rezone", resell, and maybe sellnto 
> WMATA, which intends to run the "Purple Line through our once wonderful "Park 
> Land". Maybe MNCPPC will turn the towns historic "Boys and Girls Club" into a 
> parking lot for WMATA and sell the land to WMATA an amount more valuable than 
> the proposed $150,000, low ball price, the current administration intends to 
> sell it off at. Maybe if our community wants to sell this precious piece of 
> historical property to WMATA, the town would take in more revenues, than this 
> ridiculous proposed sale price, from the "Purple Line" for decades to come 
> whereas a MNCPPC sale would prevent us from any future revenues.
> 
> We have a true town center, one that has remained vacant for more than 20 years 
> and certainly through our present administration, and those buildings could 
> become our new community center. The very successful "Farm Market" has operated 
> out of the parking lot, at the original town center, for years, proving that 
> that location is a place for success in this this town.
> 
> This town sold our town center years ago and yet it still proves to be the place 
> for success for community events.
> 
> Proving that one mayor, (who sold our town center) and one mayor, (who wants to 
> sell another part of of history) is not acting in the best interest of our town 
> from not only an historical point of view but from a modern practical point of 
> view.
> 
> This is a serious issue that impacts not only our current residents, but 
> generations of residents in the future.
> 
> 
> Don Lynch
> Manager
> Historical Association of Riverdale Park
> HARP
> 
> 
> 
 		 	   		  
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