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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Mike – <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The representation of the site as ‘undeveloped’ is semantically false. Undeveloped denotatively means ‘not having developed or been developed.’ The site has had many historic uses through 150+ years including a working farm, private housing, a private school for boys, multi-family housing (first for ERCO workers and later for GIs studying at UMD after WWII). Factually speaking, the population of Riverdale Park (nee Riverdale) declined by over a thousand residents between the 1950 and 1960 census data sets due to the demolition of the ERCO multi-family housing that had existed previously on this land parcel. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The site is greyfield not greenfield development as it had previously been developed and now stands underused. Regardless of what has grown in since the demolition of the structures on-site, characterizing it as ‘undeveloped’ is intellectually dishonest and ignores the prior history and developmental lifecycle of the site. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Best,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000040'><br><b>Jonathan W. Ebbeler | </b></span><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Councilmember – Ward One<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>