<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Sounds great to me! I say let's get rid of everybody! And, the fire trucks will cease blaring down the street making my dog howl. <br><br>Marilyn<br><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: "JayRite@aol.com" <JayRite@aol.com><br>To: marilyn_schoppet@verizon.net; medicinewoman56@comcast.net; towntalk@riverdale-park.org<br>Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 4:50:45 PM<br>Subject: Re: [RP TownTalk] TownTalk Digest, Vol 13, Issue 11<br><br>
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<div>Ok,</div>
<div>I'm sorry. I ignored the first suggestion of this, but now I have to speak
up.</div>
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<div>Turning Riverdale Park into a gate community is the worst
idea that I've heard on this subject yet. (short of going to gravel streets
that is, but that was tongue and cheek).</div>
<div>You said that we have to take control. But you really mean that we need to
hide behind steel gates. That IS NOT taking control. </div>
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<div><strong>If this community becomes gated:</strong> </div>
<div>-We will NEVER get businesses into the Town Center. EVER. No business in
the world is going to move to an area where their sales are limited
to a segregated few. We may even lose the businesses that are already
there.</div>
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<div>-How do you include the portion of Riverdale that is on the West side of
Route 1? Yes, check the maps. Riverdale Park is on the other side of Route 1
too.</div>
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<div>-Marc trains will shoot straight through Riverdale Park to College Park
without stopping. Guaranteed. </div>
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<div>-The fire department will no longer be able to support other communities
efficiently, and vise versa. </div>
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<div>-Paying for this will mean a serious need to increase property tax to
pay for it. And I'm not even going there. </div>
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<div>-I would be leaving this community. I was born in DC and raised
in PG. And I will not cower away from traffic or crime. I want to live in
an open community. I want to continue to curse the <u>elitist</u>
society of University Park, and insist that the "blockade" that
they established where Queens Chapel and EW highway be blown to
smithereens! </div>
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<div>If either of you or any that support your notion of gating our wonderful
town, in order to cower from the rest of society, continue to think that this is
a good idea. I'd like to invite you to sell your homes and move to an already
established sterile-gated-Disneylike community far far away.</div>
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<div>I'm sorry.</div>
<div>This is a very bad idea.</div>
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<div>Jay Wright</div>
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