[RP TownTalk] Let's keep Route 1 Cafritz property Forested. Protecting the Green Spaces within the Beltway.

[Jonathan W. Ebbeler]

Mike - 

 

The representation of the site as 'undeveloped' is semantically false.
Undeveloped denotatively means 'not having developed or been developed.'
The site has had many historic uses through 150+ years including a working
farm, private housing, a private school for boys, multi-family housing
(first for ERCO workers and later for GIs studying at UMD after WWII).
Factually speaking, the population of Riverdale Park (nee Riverdale)
declined by over a thousand residents between the 1950 and 1960 census data
sets due to the demolition of the ERCO multi-family housing that had existed
previously on this land parcel.  

 

The site is greyfield not greenfield development as it had previously been
developed and now stands underused.  Regardless of what has grown in since
the demolition of the structures on-site, characterizing it as 'undeveloped'
is intellectually dishonest and ignores the prior history and developmental
lifecycle of the site.  

 

Best,


Jonathan W. Ebbeler | Councilmember - Ward One

 

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