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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Adrianne/Bruce –<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The description that was written earlier of the bridge alignment was inaccurate. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The bridge does not have an east-west elevation on the east (Field of Dreams/ERCO) side of the RR tracks. The alignment that was approved through the Detailed Site Plan process by the town and the PG County Planning Board has it connecting west into the traffic circle on the Cafritz property with the radius turn starting thereafter running up the rising grade to a point 23’ above the RR tracks. It will run parallel to the RR tracks as Bruce described for a few hundred feet but the roadbed is again at grade in the vicinity of the current grass field (north of the tree line, north of the FOD). There will be an east/west at-grade road connecting the connections of Lafayette North/South and the road to Cafritz via bridge. The only discussion point left is how to connect the three roads (a ‘Y’ intersection, a ‘T’ intersection, or a traffic circle).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The bridge does not swing east/west to Rivertech Court and the visages from Lafayette will that of a rising roadbed with the bridge radius turned west towards Cafritz. The UMD has the legal right as opined by the Maryland Historic Trust as of the last 12 months to raze the ERCO building and redevelop the site. The town currently has no legal ROW to Rivertech Court; we have been allowed to drive on UMD’s private property. Once their site is developed there is no guarantee that a road connection would remain. The town would of course push for it and demand it but ultimately we have little sway in land use matters and a ROW is not guaranteed. As we discovered through the Cafritz planning process, Park and Planning staff and decisions makers have been completely unaware that RP wanted to preserve this connection and no plans had been made or presumed to-date that would ensure this; in fact earlier renderings of the ERCO re-development had Lafayette dead-ending with no future access. This was the one opportunity to negotiate and ensure vehicular access to M-Square and the College Park Metro via Lafayette. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The bridge, in general, is a regional transportation solution that helps mitigate the damage done to the town 50+ years ago with the bifurcation due to E-W Highway. It solves public safety access issues, it provides travel to all points north and south regardless of what side of the RR tracks you are on and if a train is blocking the tracks, and if the experts are correct, will mitigate the existing cut-through traffic on Lafayette. Decisions like these are not made in bubbles and have many moving pieces that all have to be weighed against each other before a path forward is decided upon.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Put simply, there will not be any folks who live next to the bridge other than in future multi-family buildings near the traffic circle on the Cafritz property. Those buildings are already required to be built to significant sound attenuation standards due to the RR, traffic impacts to those residences will be de minimis. I hope this clears up the confusion from the earlier post.<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>Jonathan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#000040'>Jonathan W. Ebbeler | </span></b><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Councilman Ward 1</span></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>