<div> I think that we could use as much community space as we can get, Arletta. I also agree that the project has great promise for RP and we need as many positive voices around as we can find. Also, I will continue on my rant for connecting the Lafayete Ave side of RP and Town Center with their project as much as we can. This is where the new project can make genuine connections to our community through roadway connections and trails. We're lucky that the project needs our support so we can extract some promises to reconnect our citizens with each other for the good of the town. Please come out and support the project and greater physical connections to existing parts of RP.<br>
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<div id="AOLMsgPart_3_e30fa4df-3703-4a73-9d73-459662d08639"> btw, the *DC* (or National, not sure which it's called) Children's Museum just got 'hijacked' by the new National Harbor project in southern PG Co (on the Potomac just south of the Wilson Bridge). Quite a coup. <br>
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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/15/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Arletta Gustafson</b> <<a href="mailto:arlettag@comcast.net">arlettag@comcast.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I have to agree with your observations. It certainly did seem that the majority of those negative comments were voiced by those in surrounding communities. I plan on attending Tuesday's meeting as well, so that I can hear as much as possible about the concerns and the supportive comments also. Since I am new to the town, this was my first exposure to the project. I found it to be very promising. </span></font></div>
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<div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Being a tree-huggin' hippie from Seattle I was pleased with the amount of attention that seems to have been directed to making it as "green" as possible. </span></font></div>
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<div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I noted that there will be room in the NE corner for "community space", I would like to see some space made on Main Street for some sort of community center. My hometown (county had 125,000) put the county children's museum in it's historic downtown district and it was a rousing success. The museum worked a win-win rental deal with the property owner and I just read that it has actually become so popular that they are having to move. While this may not be a great fit for this project, I think it would be wonderful to have a place for the people of the neighborhood to have meetings or such. It would also be a place for youth groups like *<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">ahem</span></b>* 4-H and Boys and Girls Club (I hear their building needs some work) and others could meet. Matt (I think that was his name) said that a good
deal of Sr. housing is planned. This building would also be a good place for those seniors to gather.</span></font></div>
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<div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">I may be way off base here, it HAS been know to happen, but it's my small town experience trying to rear its ugly head in the big city.</span></font></div>
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<div><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;">Comments, please be gentle. </span></font><font color="navy" face="Wingdings" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Wingdings; color: navy;"> J</span></font><font color="navy" face="Arial" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: navy;"></span></font></div>
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<div><b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; font-weight: bold;">From:</span></font></b><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma;"> <a href="mailto:towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org"> towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org">towntalk-bounces@riverdale-park.org</a>] <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">On Behalf Of </span></b>Dwight Holmes<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Saturday, September 15, 2007 1:34 PM<br>
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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">very briefly... we attended the Cafritz presentation at Riverdale Elementary this morning. we love the direction it's taking (no startling new developments at all... happy to provide more details later... they said they'd have their proposals up on their website "soon" ( <a target="_blank" href="http://www.cafritzpop.com/">http://www.cafritzpop.com/</a> ) ....)<br>
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one observation: based on the sample of people who turned out this morning and expressed their views, one would have to conclude that university park and college park (calvert hills) residents love their communities *just* the way they are, whereas we riverdalians long for the kinds of changes the Cafritz folks are talking about -- and appreciate the way they are going about it. <br>
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if you like the general sense of their proposals and would like to see something like this happen, i would urge you to turn out for the meeting this Tuesday at 8, which is a repeat performance of this morning's meeting -- and make yourselves heard. right now, if things were decided by voice vote, we'd lose easily!! <br clear="all"> <br>
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