[RP TownTalk] Cafritz Vote

[Melissa Avery]

This seems so strange to me because every thing I ever heard from MUTC  council and the town council was that they were all for the development, closed sessions where the public was not allowed to be involved or express opinions even family members of town council and MUTC members all for the development.
What exactly is going on here?


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 From: Alan K. Thompson <akthompson at riverdaleparkmd.gov>
To: jebbeler at efusionconsulting.com 
Cc: towntalk at riverdale-park.org 
Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2012 10:24 PM
Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] Cafritz Vote
 

I will confirm Jonathan's statement below that this project was never (and still is not) a "done deal." I came to at least one council meeting in early January with a pre-written letter recommending denial of the rezoning.  We had very long, intense negotiations, and I voted for it because the final package had everything I thought the Town needed, and a lot of things we wanted.


On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Jonathan W. Ebbeler <jebbeler at efusionconsulting.com> wrote:

 
>It is unfortunate that the Council’s position on this question was seen that this was a done deal – it wasn’t – at least from the single vote I cast.  I had very clearly communicated to the developers what it would take to get a Yea vote and up until the last day or two before we voted that had not materialized.  I voted Yes because the Developers acquiesced on key and critical components of the negotiation.  I cannot speak for the rest of the Council but I saw no indication from those that voted that their positions were any different.  We would have voted to support the project in November/December vs. giving up our holiday seasons to sit in almost nightly meetings and negotiations if this was all a forgone conclusion.  
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