[RP TownTalk] renewed discussion of Cafritz Project garners some analysis on the Rethinking College Park blog

Tue May 31 14:57:19 UTC 2011

I live on Queensbury in Hyattsville and can assure everyone that with the development at the PG Metro, UTC, and the Plaza our traffic has become MUCH worse.  Last week some fool tried to hit me while I was backing out of my driveway near a stop sign.  He sped up when I backed out, racing to get past me, accelerating toward the stop sign.  (It almost turned into a road rage incident; I gave his plate number to our Police.)  Since the additional development, most days we have solid, stopped traffic from Queens Chapel to 42nd in the afternoons.  We begged our city to do traffic studies and take action before development.  We were ignored; now we are living with the mess.  A Whole Foods would be nice, but it would not be worth destroying what is left of our quiet residential communities.  Just a neighbor's thoughts...   

--- On Mon, 5/30/11, Bruce Wernek <bruce.wernek at mindspring.com> wrote:

From: Bruce Wernek <bruce.wernek at mindspring.com>
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] renewed discussion of Cafritz Project garners some analysis on the Rethinking College Park blog
To: "'Melissa Avery'" <m.avery at rocketmail.com>, "'TownTalk'" <towntalk at riverdale-park.org>, "'Dwight Holmes'" <dwightrholmes at gmail.com>
Date: Monday, May 30, 2011, 3:21 PM

I’d like to chime in.  There’s an organic grocery store opening up in Hyattsville (EYA) in the near future.  So we need more than one?

There’s a real issue with the development of the Cafritz property and that’s access.  I live on Queensbury Rd near Rhode Island Ave.  There’s enough traffic on Queensbury already.  I am not in favor of using Rhode Island Ave as a main access road into the Cafritz property.  Let Calvert Hills or University Park (Queens Chapel Rd)  provide access or have Cafritz arrange for another RR crossing to River Rd.  I’m tired of dealing with people racing up and down Queensbury at all hours of the night and the cut through traffic.  If this development moves forward, Riverdale may have to bear the burden of more traffic while Calvert Hills and University Park maintain their “park like setting”.  I think it’s time we as a community let Cafritz arrange (pay) for access to their property and not dump it on our streets.  It’s all about money.  I don’t want to deal with the traffic so Cafritz gets a big pay day.  It’s not just me either. 
 Anyone living on Rhode Island Ave, Queensbury Rd, Riverdale Rd (Rt 1 side), Oliver St (Rt 1 side), and Madison are going to see a significant increase in traffic.  You folks who live on Riverdale Rd (Rt 1 side), Oliver St (Rt 1 side), and Madison St are going get a lot of cut through traffic to the Cafritz property just like what I have to put up with on Queensbury.  No more quiet streets for you, but we’ll have a Whole Foods just down the street.  Great!

Alternatively,  why not have the state/county purchase the Cafritz property and set it aside as a park.  Now that would increase our property values.  After all, how many neighborhoods have a park right next door as compared with supermarkets, shopping plazas, gas stations, apartment buildings, banks, restaurants, ……………………………………………………………  

There’s development all around us.  Wouldn’t it be nice to have some quite space in the midst of all of this chaos.  I think so and so do all of the animals that live on that tract.  I hear all of this motherhood about the environment.  Here’s where it starts.

Bruce

From: towntalk-bounces at riverdale-park.org [mailto:towntalk-bounces at riverdale-park.org] On Behalf Of Melissa Avery
Sent: Monday, May 30, 2011 12:24 AM
To: TownTalk; Dwight Holmes
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] renewed discussion of Cafritz Project garners some analysis on the Rethinking College Park blog

Purple line , Cafritz development.... Rockville here we come. Anyone who has lived in Montgomery county knows what this kind of developmenet means.

--- On Mon, 5/30/11, Dwight Holmes <dwightrholmes at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dwight Holmes <dwightrholmes at gmail.com>
Subject: [RP TownTalk] renewed discussion of Cafritz Project garners some analysis on the Rethinking College Park blog
To: "TownTalk" <towntalk at riverdale-park.org>
Date: Monday, May 30, 2011, 3:55 AM

http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5527/

Talks Resume for Whole Foods Just South of College Park

May 29th, 2011  |  by Colin Phillips  |  Published in Cafritz
Property, Speculation  |  5 Comments
15Share

There’s nothing like talk of a Whole Foods opening in the neighborhood
to get local pulses racing. After a few years of recession-induced
torpor, it appears that plans are again underway to develop the
Cafritz Property, a 35.8-acre tract of undeveloped land on Route 1
immediately to the south of College Park. Whole Foods would like to be
the anchor tenant for this development (it is listed among their
“stores in development“. As the lively discussion on the Riverdale
Park Patch shows, some locals regard this as the best thing since
unsliced organic bread, while others view it as the latest in a line
of development and transportation disasters to hit the area....

for complete blog article, see http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2011/5527/
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