<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Very interesting arguments, esp. the analogy between the impending development and Route 410 (and yes, I remember the area before 410 was built; it IS a very convenient thoroughfare, but it DID literally divide the town; so we can look at it from both sides, I guess).</SPAN></div>
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<DIV>I've heard your argument before that the Cafritz Property had previous uses, so returning it to what it was 50-60 years ago is a natural course of action. By that logic, most of Ward 3 should be returned to Riversdale since 50-60 years ago it was undeveloped acreage for the mansion, or the 410 bridge should be torn down for the same reasons. What makes the decisions of that time period valid to today's reality? We already have the benefit of hindsight on what 410 did to our town.</DIV>
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<DIV>There was recently an article in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine that was discussed on the PBS newshour saying that there is a correlation between human health and the trees around them:</DIV>
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<DIV>Granted these are not 100 year old trees in the Cafritz property, but clearing those acres may have some unintended consequences.</DIV>
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<DIV>-Maureen</DIV></DIV>
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<DIV class=yiv0129141371gmail_quote>On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 4:03 AM, Jonathan W. Ebbeler <SPAN dir=ltr><<A href="mailto:jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com" rel=nofollow target=_blank ymailto="mailto:jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com">jebbeler@efusionconsulting.com</A>></SPAN> wrote:<BR>
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<div class=yiv0129141371MsoNormal>Mike – <U></U><U></U></div>
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<div class=yiv0129141371MsoNormal>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. <U></U><U></U></div>
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<div class=yiv0129141371MsoNormal>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. <U></U><U></U></div>
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<div class=yiv0129141371MsoNormal>Best,<U></U><U></U></div>
<div class=yiv0129141371MsoNormal><SPAN style="COLOR: #000040; FONT-SIZE: 8pt"><BR><B>Jonathan W. Ebbeler | </B></SPAN><B><SPAN style="COLOR: #1f497d; FONT-SIZE: 8pt">Councilmember – Ward One<U></U><U></U></SPAN></B></div>
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