[RP TownTalk] Executive Session and upcoming events regarding Cafritz proposal

[Don Lynch]

Uh Oh,

When I hear voting on the "Cafrirtz Property Issue" will occur on the 
next legislative meeting, Oct 3rd,  I'm concerned.

Every recent town meeting vote is always, consistently, 6-0.

Its amazing, how people attend the town hall meetings and protest, but 
the final vote is always 6-0, with the standard  comment after 
voting,"now that we have voted, let's open it up to discussion."

I've never understood how you open the issue up to discussion after you 
voted...

Thank you , Don , for your opinion, now we'll vote...

The Cafrirtz Property rezoning issue should be a town vote. That's how 
this town grew up and we shouldn't change that standard.

Don

On 9/8/2011 8:25 PM, Vernon Archer wrote:
> To all interested this proposal,
> As was announced, the Riverdale Park Town Council met last night in 
> Executive Session to discuss maters related to the move to put a Whole 
> Foods in our town. The council made significant progress on a draft 
> statement about the issues around the project. I expect that this 
> draft will be released to the public within a few days--probably 
> Monday, or Tuesday of next week. I want to emphasize that this 
> document is a draft, and not a final statement and will present 
> significant opportunity for review and input by all interested parties.
> When the draft is ready for release, it will be placed on the Town web 
> site, and notification will be given through Town Talk, Town Announce, 
> and local media will be notified too.
> The council (including myself) will expect to hear all of your 
> feedback through the multiple means open to you.
> The draft will be placed on the agenda of the next work session for 
> full discussion by council and to receive public input.
> Based on the outcome of the discussion at the work session, the 
> council may act on the draft at the legislative meeting on October 3, 
> 2011.
> Also, we are expecting that the Cafritz team will be making a full 
> presentation and public meeting at town hall the week prior to our 
> work session.  When a definite date is settled on we will announce it 
> widely and plan to mail out an announcement to the whole town.
> Of final note, there are no further executive sessions planned at this 
> time.
> Sincerely,
> Vern
>
> -- 
> Vernon Archer, Mayor
> Town of Riverdale Park, Maryland
>
>
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