<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The Board of Directors of American Center for Physics has declined the</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Cafritz proposal to use ACP's land for a bridge and roadway. Therefore, the </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">current development plans will need to be revised. </span>The Town of University Park has posted a copy of the ACP letter:<font color="#222222"> </font><a href="http://www.upmd.org/?t=ce_news&mode=dialog&id=419" target="_blank" style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">http://www.upmd.org/?t=ce_news&mode=dialog&id=419</a>. <div>
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The presentation that was to have presented the current plan--scheduled for this Wednesday (March 20) at UP Elementary--is postponed, perhaps until </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Tuesday, April 9. An announcement will be made to confirm the time.</span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<br><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Even though the developers do not currently have land for the bridge on the east side of the CSX tracks, </span><br style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">we understand that they nevertheless plan to move forward rapidly, in hopes of having building permits by Aug. 1, 2013. T</span><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">hree other possibilities for the bridge have thus far been rejected, we believe.</span><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> Talks </span><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">apparently continue with the University of Maryland for the original proposal to have a crossing at Van Buren Street. The second option, for a J-shaped bridge, was rejected by Riverdale Park, as we understand it. There has been discussion of a third option at the southern end of the property as well, although we're not very clear about where it would be or how it would work. </font></div>
<div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The developer will need to gain approval of a new Preliminary Plan of Subdivision </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">(requires a Planning Board hearing) and of a Detailed Site Plan </span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">(requires a District Council hearing) and a Special Permit</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"> (appealable to District Court). </span></div>
<div><br></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Any light that members of our government could shed would, of course, be most welcome.</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><div><font color="#222222" face="arial, sans-serif">Kate Kelly</font></div><div><br></div>