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<DIV style="FONT-FAMILY: times new roman, new york, times, serif; FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><BR>Friends,<BR><BR>Our town has owned the "Boys and Girls Club House" for 90 (Ninety) years.<BR><BR>One of our former mayors, Guy Tiberio, who was the longest running mayor in our history, has advocated a different approach to our towns prized and important property. He has advocated acquiring the adjacent land from MNCPPC, which is possible, not through direct purchase, which is not possible because of legislature passed in the 1930's, but can be accomplished through other avenues.<BR><BR>Our town's treasured property, which has been held since its inception, like the Riversdale Mansion, should not be valued like a common real estate. Property values throughout our country are at an all time low. We shouldn't sell this precious part our our town's beginning, which has been held onto through over 30 Mayor's stewardship's, just because one mayor thinks differently
for a rather questionable goal.<BR><BR>Once, this precious parcel is sold, it will, like our formal town center property, no longer be under our control and this town sees the results of that decision for the last 20 plus years. The "Boys and Girls Clubhouse", will be sold to MNCPPC, which has the right to "rezone", resell, and maybe sellnto WMATA, which intends to run the "Purple Line through our once wonderful "Park Land". Maybe MNCPPC will turn the towns historic "Boys and Girls Club" into a parking lot for WMATA and sell the land to WMATA an amount more valuable than the proposed $150,000, low ball price, the current administration intends to sell it off at. Maybe if our community wants to sell this precious piece of historical property to WMATA, the town would take in more revenues, than this ridiculous proposed sale price, from the "Purple Line" for decades to come whereas a MNCPPC sale would prevent us from any future revenues.<BR><BR>We have a
true town center, one that has remained vacant for more than 20 years and certainly through our present administration, and those buildings could become our new community center. The very successful "Farm Market" has operated out of the parking lot, at the original town center, for years, proving that that location is a place for success in this this town.<BR><BR>This town sold our town center years ago and yet it still proves to be the place for success for community events.<BR><BR>Proving that one mayor, (who sold our town center) and one mayor, (who wants to sell another part of of history) is not acting in the best interest of our town from not only an historical point of view but from a modern practical point of view.<BR><BR>This is a serious issue that impacts not only our current residents, but generations of residents in the future.<BR><BR><BR>Don Lynch<BR>Manager<BR><SPAN style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #366388 2px dotted; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #dceeff;
COLOR: #000; CURSOR: hand" id=lw_1287638189_0 class=yshortcuts>Historical Association</SPAN> of Riverdale Park<BR>HARP<BR><BR><BR></DIV></div><br>
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