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Sell the property and be out of it. I'd rather see it sold so that it can be improved as I don't want the town taking on the responsibility and financial burden. <BR>
I certainly don't think we should be using our tax dollars to purchase more property that will require more tax dollars for maintenance and upkeep.<BR>
I run past that property nearly every morning and would love to see it returned to the park.<BR>
This post is nothing but fear. Fear of progress. Fear of change. <BR>
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Brian Boettger. Ravenswood Road.<BR>
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> Message: 1<BR>> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 22:19:49 -0700 (PDT)<BR>> From: Melissa Avery <m.avery@rocketmail.com><BR>> To: TownTalk@riverdale-park.org, Todd Whitehead<BR>> <twhitehead76@yahoo.com>, Adrienne Allegretti <adgealleg@hotmail.com>,<BR>> Judy Glaes <glaes@email.com><BR>> Subject: [RP TownTalk] Dog Park, Old Club House and Proposed Field<BR>> "improvements" at Riverdale Community Park<BR>> Message-ID: <256803.53849.qm@web59402.mail.ac4.yahoo.com><BR>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <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 <BR>> history, has advocated a different approach to our towns prized and important <BR>> property. He has advocated acquiring the adjacent land from MNCPPC, which is <BR>> possible, not through direct purchase, which is not possible because of <BR>> 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 <BR>> Riversdale Mansion, should not be valued like a common real estate. Property <BR>> values throughout our country are at an all time low. We shouldn't sell? this <BR>> precious part our our town's beginning, which has been held onto through over 30 <BR>> Mayor's stewardship's, just because one mayor thinks differently for a rather <BR>> questionable goal.<BR>> <BR>> Once, this precious parcel is sold, it will, like our formal town center <BR>> property, no longer be under our control and this town sees the results of that <BR>> decision for the last 20 plus years. The "Boys and Girls Clubhouse", will be <BR>> sold to MNCPPC, which has the right to "rezone", resell, and maybe sellnto <BR>> WMATA, which intends to run the "Purple Line through our once wonderful "Park <BR>> Land". Maybe MNCPPC will turn the towns historic "Boys and Girls Club" into a <BR>> parking lot for WMATA and sell the land to WMATA an amount more valuable than <BR>> the proposed $150,000, low ball price, the current administration intends to <BR>> sell it off at. Maybe if our community wants to sell this precious piece of <BR>> historical property to WMATA, the town would take in more revenues, than this <BR>> ridiculous proposed sale price, from the "Purple Line" for decades to come <BR>> 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 <BR>> and certainly through our present administration, and those buildings could <BR>> become our new community center. The very successful "Farm Market" has operated <BR>> out of the parking lot, at the original town center, for years, proving that <BR>> 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 <BR>> for success for community events.<BR>> <BR>> Proving that one mayor, (who sold our town center) and one mayor, (who wants to <BR>> sell another part of of history) is not acting in the best interest of our town <BR>> from not only an historical point of view but from a modern practical point of <BR>> view.<BR>> <BR>> This is a serious issue that impacts not only our current residents, but <BR>> generations of residents in the future.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> Don Lynch<BR>> Manager<BR>> Historical Association of Riverdale Park<BR>> HARP<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR><BR> </body>
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