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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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>-Marc trains will shoot straight through Riverdale Park to College Park
without stopping. Guaranteed. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>-The fire department will no longer be able to support other communities
efficiently, and vise versa. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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>
<DIV> </DIV>
<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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