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Jonathan<br>
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I guess you forgot about the prior discussion on the fate of the
Calvert House. How did the Town resolve these issues?<br>
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J. Holmes<br>
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<div><span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Calvert House in
on of the few </span><span><span style="font-size: 16px;">businesses
that are trying survive in Riverdale Park.</span></span></span></div>
<div><span><span><span style="font-size: 16px;">It's not my
favorite place, but the owners are just trying to
survive.</span></span></span></div>
<div><span><span><span><span style="font-size: 16px;">If the
evening music is too loud, why cant our ward
one representative, who is supose to represent the
business district, and our mayor, who knows the
owners of the Calvert House, do something constructive
and have a conversation with the owners and work the
problem out?</span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size:
16px;">Instead, we are seeing a replete of the
type of tactics used when MUTC demanded twenty
-five thousand dollars from Wachovia Bank
to allow them add a third drive in window, on
the premise that</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size:
16px;">they were trying to promote pedestrian
traffic to that busy RT 1 and 410 location at
night.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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16px;"><br>
</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size:
16px;">It seems like there is another agenda going
on here once again.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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16px;"><br>
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"Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Good
Afternoon All:</span></font><br>
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<font size="3" color="blueviolet" face="Times New Roman,
Times, serif"><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family:
"Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font
color="#000000">As a business owner here in Riverdale
Park for the past 25 years, and a
community activist, I just do not understand why we
continue to shoot ourselves
in the foot? No, it is not "mutually exclusive",
keeping the
quality of life in Riverdale requires business tax
revenues that must come from
business sources. These businesses contribute to more
revenue for our town.
With our property taxes already too high for comfort,
what residents of
Riverdale want to pay more? I have concerns about the
Town Center and wish that
every single rental property were occupied. Are we
doing enough to maintain
what businesses we already have or to attract new
clientele? On one hand
we want new businesses to come to town but it is never
a smooth process in
Riverdale Park, just look at how long it took to get
Wells Fargo in here.
Like Freydoun and Susan, I too have invested a ton of
money in renovating and
they remodeled the entire "Restaurant" without closing
only to have
this happen to them??? When you cannot make enough
revenue to support
keeping the establishment viable with just "lunch and
dinner" you take
suggestions and ideas which may include "Karaoke
Night's" during the
weekends! I am sure if Freydoun and Susan could tell
its patrons upon
exiting the premises, there will be no loud talking in
the parking lot and take
your trash with you when you go, THEY WOULD!! You
just cannot please
all of the people all of the time. The Calvert House
needs to figure out a way
to keep their neighbors happy:) Therefore, a line of
open communication with
their neighbors would be a good start. It would
indeed be a sad day if
Freydoun and Susan just throw up their hands and walk
away! They have the <b>best crab cakes </b>in the
State of Maryland, no
other restaurant that I have gone to even comes close,
who in Riverdale Park
would want to give up the best?<br>
<br>
Mayor Archer upon the
completion of your investigation, if loud noises and
music are the problem,
someone on the town council, code enforcement or
public works etc. may need to
help them resolve the issue, just like you helped me.
When I contacted
you about my concerns of congestion and speeding
traffic on Taylor Road,
especially during school dismissal, there was a police
car with a real officer
or CPR Annie parked on Ogelthorpe Street whenever
possible and folks would slow
down. When David Lingua approached me about
supporting parking on only
one side of Taylor Road during school dismissal, I was
more than happy to sign
on. Then people began to block the entrance to my day
care
driveway! This was a serious issue for me and with
one email to you,
Public Works came out and put down the yellow no
parking curb paint and they
stopped blocking my driveway. Now, during my day care
children's nap
time, if we could just get all of the school children
to walk past the day care
with no loud talking, yelling, screaming, running,
play fighting or dropping
all kinds of trash and homework just outside of my
yard, I would be a very
happy business owner LOL!<br>
<br>
Does anyone know if S and J's
still have Karaoke Night? If so, what is their
established volume for
karaoke nights, so that they don't incur these kinds
of complaints from their
neighbors? This is the kind of information that
Freydoun and Susan could
use right now. What else can we do to <font
color="#7030a0">ENCOURAGE </font>and<font
color="#7030a0"> SUPPORT </font>Freydoun and
Susan to keep going? Do the signs mean </font><font
color="#000000">we are not allowed to patronize
the establishment even for "lunch and dinner" while
this
investigation is being conducted? Please let me know
and I will have
lunch there tomorrow, <i>if we are permitted</i>. <br>
<br>
Last year, while having lunch
there, I realized that the Calvert House had just
reopened the largest room for
social events etc. I threw a surprise retirement
party there for my
husband. So, I personally know how hard Susan and her
wonderful staff went
above & beyond to make sure I had everything I
requested. Susan sat
down and helped me plan everything, she even had her
staff set tables up wherever
I wanted and they put my decorations up for me. Susan
made sure that the
appetizers were put out at the right moment, tasty and
piping hot! Susan
set up an open bar beer and wine tab for me and the
bar staff did an excellent
job keeping me posted on all matters concerning the
party. After the
event they even helped me load up left over cake,
balloons and gifts in my car. Now, that is how you
run a business! </font></span><br>
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<div class="ecxMsoNormal"><font color="#000000"><span
style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times
New Roman", serif; font-size: 12pt;">Many of
those in attendance at our party were business
folks
and leaders in their own communities. They
expressed how beautiful the
restaurant was, I did my part by </span>encouraging
them all to support the Calvert House. I thought it
would be
great if they would consider hosting their business
holiday activities,
luncheons for their association groups and family
events there, but now
this? It just saddens me to know how difficult it
is to keep a small
business operational, especially after such a large
renovation. It's your
life's work; putting all of your heart & soul
into your family,
business and community. </font></div>
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<div class="ecxMsoNormal"><span style="line-height:
115%; font-family: "Times New Roman",
serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font color="#000000">Speaking
of investing, I am so proud of Pete and what he
has
accomplished, so far, with the Town Market, I
spoke with him the other day and
inquired how things were coming along and he had a
headache! I told Pete
just how much I am looking forward to shopping
there soon and supporting
another small business owner. Having lived in
this area since 1974 and Riverdale
Park since 1986, this community </font><font
color="#000000">has proven time and again that </font></span><font
color="#000000"><i>it
is</i><b> </b>a mutually </font><font
color="#000000">exclusive community, that's what I
love about
it! </font> <b>I just think we all need to
fully support </b><b>the "Calvert House" by trying
to help build up our business community, as well as
everything else… Not tearing them down and chasing
them out of Town!</b></div>
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A Million!!</font></div>
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<div style="color: rgb(138, 43, 226); clear: both;
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Novella Sargusingh, Director</font></div>
<div style="color: rgb(138, 43, 226); clear: both;
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Creative Learning Child Care Services, Inc.</font></div>
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Resident</font></div>
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<div>I support Calvert House in trying to find a niche</div>
<div>to survive in Riverdale. If calvert house cannot </div>
<div>handle their problems in the parking lot, loud music</div>
<div>after curfew, work it out so they can be within code</div>
<div>and still have their business. They have worked</div>
<div>hard as a small business in Riverdale and I would</div>
<div>hate to see them go down especially if they</div>
<div>finally found a way to make money. So please</div>
<div>work it out with them. emily</div>
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Jackson325 <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:jackson325@verizon.net"><jackson325@verizon.net></a><br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Bruce
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Thursday, May 3, 2012 7:26 AM<br>
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Re: [RP TownTalk] EXT :Re: Calvert House?<br>
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<div>Bruce, have you had a meal at the Calvert House at
2:00 am ? </div>
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<div>We all want to see the business succeed, but loud
music in the wee hours is obviously not working in
their best interest. </div>
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<div>Calvert House is not a dance hall. It's a
restaurant. Maybe you should go there sometime
and see for yourself.</div>
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<div>Bruce</div>
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font-family: arial; ">On 05/02/12, <span>Judy
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<div><span>Hi, I live one and a half blocks
away from the Calvert House. We have
called the police many times to ask them
to get Calvert House to turn down their
music. The bass from the Calvert House
rocks the windows in our house. Many
communities around the country are
struggling with how to contain this type
of low level bass noise. Once when our
windows were rattling at 2 am, the police
said they drove by there and the it
"wasn't that loud."</span></div>
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<div><span>Have you ever been in traffic next
to a car that has the bass turned up so
loud that all the cars in the vicinity are
shaking? yet, the driver of the car with
the amped up stereo only hears the loud
stereo, they do not experience the low
level bass vibrations. This is what is
happening at the Calvert House.</span></div>
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<div><span>And honestly, Bruce, residents DO
come before businesses. Businesses aren't
people, PEOPLE are people. And whether or
not The Calvert House is a dance
hall...they play music like its a dance
hall. I want the music OFF by 11pm.<br>
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<div>Judy Stone<br>
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<div>We hear it two blocks over from
the Calvert House's front door. We
have neighbors with babies and young
children and they are often woken up
by the bass and loud music. Our
bedroom faces Hyattsville and we
still hear it.<br>
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We used to go to the Calvert House
when DJ Bobby was spinning his dance
parties and had a great time. </div>
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<div>We certainly know how to have a
good time and have turned down our
own house party music at 11:00 pm,
we are not trying to rain on
anyone's party or stop anyone from
turning a dollar... But it is loud
and most unneighborly.</div>
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Janice Byrum-Jackson</div>
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<div><b><font face="Kabel Bk BT">Unfortunately,
I do live right next to Rt 1
and EW Highway so I do get
my share of glass pack
mufflers, late night
partiers etc. As for not
being supportive of business
in Riverdale, I am very
supportive of local
business..I have eaten at
Calvert House hundreds of
times, supported the local
animal hospitals, shopped at
local pet stores (when they
were open) etc. The only
thing I said was that
Calvert House had been
playing music very loud and
quite a few times way after
the local noise ordinance.
They would often put
speakers outside on the Rt 1
side for their patrons.
This happens to face my
house and yes, it was them.
My neighbors on 44th ave
heard the music as well. I
have never officially
complained about them, only
thing I did is ask RPD to
have them turn down the
music at 4 am so that my
family and I could get a
good nights sleep. I have
no problem with them being a
restaurant or a club or
whatever, just keep the
music to a normal level at
the wee hours of the night.
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<div><b><font face="Kabel Bk BT">Carol
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Re: [RP TownTalk] EXT :Re:
Calvert House?</div>
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<div><span><span
style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;">You
should try living next
to a two bedroom
residential house with
12 adults and 4
children, 9 cars, some
with glass pack
mufflers </span><span
style="FONT-SIZE:16px;">coming</span><span><span
style="FONT-SIZE:12pt;"> and going at all hours of the day and night,
loud late night
parting in the parking
lot, including
drinking, smoking, a
marching band under
our kitchen window,
which the police did
break up, gun shots,
loud talking, soccer
games blocking the
street, using
neighbors cars a goal
posts, drug deals in
front of their house,
in front of the
children on the street
and that was just in
the last month.</span></span></span></div>
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<b><span
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012
9:10 AM<br>
<b><span
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Re: [RP TownTalk] EXT
:Re: Calvert House?<br>
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<div
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style="COLOR:#1f497d;FONT-SIZE:11pt;">I live within earshot of Calvert
House and
don’t hear the
music. I know
they were having
karaoke on
Thursday nights
and on Friday
nights they
would have happy
hour. Are we
trying to keep
businesses in
Riverdale or
not?</span></div>
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<b>On Behalf
Of </b>Carol
DePrato<br>
<b>Sent:</b>
Wednesday, May
02, 2012 6:59
AM<br>
<b>To:</b>
Bruce Wernek;
'Vernon
Archer';
'TownTalk'<br>
<b>Subject:</b>
EXT :Re: [RP
TownTalk]
Calvert House?</span></div>
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<div
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<div
class="yiv497083169MsoNormal"><b><span>As
anyone who
lives within
earshot of the
Calvert House
knows, they
play VERY LOUD
dance music
till all hours
of the night.
Yes, the place
used to be a
very nice
restaurant,
but recently
they have been
trying to
switch it to a
more club like
atmosphere. I
live across
Route 1 from
them and
several times
have had to
call RPD at
330 am or
later to get
them to turn
down their
music so my
sons and I can
sleep. I'm
not sure what
the town sign
means, but for
those of us
kept up all
night by their
"restaurant",
maybe it will
help.</span></b></div>
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<div
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DePrato</span></b></div>
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<div>Bruce,</div>
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<div>As this is an ongoing investigation I am not able
to comment on it. It is a distressing situation and
I hope that the complaints and citations prove to be
in error after our investigation is complete. </div>
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<div>Best wishes,</div>
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<div>Vern<br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 1, 2012 at 10:31
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<span
style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Hi
Vern</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">I
just got back from the Calvert House and
there’s a sign on the entrance
indicating that I should not enter the
premises without permission from the
Town. Rumor has it that the Town
considers the Calvert House a dance
hall. I’ve probably been there ~50
times and I’ve never seen anyone dancing
there, just eating. After all it is a
restaurant. What’s going on?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Honestly
Vern, I’m incensed that this sort of
thing is going on in Riverdale. Is this
what the Town calls economic
development? Freydoun (spelling) has
been there for 30+ years. A typical day
for him is 10am to 4am. Does anyone on
distribution work this hard? Is this
how we take care of longtime business
owners in this town? If there’s an
issue with karaoke or whatever, I’m sure
Freydoun would be happy to stop that
activity until the issue is resolved
without the need for signs which state
and I quote “No person is to enter the
premises without permission of the
Town”.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">Has
anyone at the Town Hall considered the
impact of this sign on Freydoun’s
business. How about his family or all
of the people that work there. The
revenue from his business is their
lively hood. Is it the Town’s intent to
put him out of business and all of those
people out of work? What about their
families and their well being? I just
talked to Susan (Fredoun’s wife) and she
told me the place has been dead since
the sign was posted. He has a valid
license to operate a restaurant. So
what is the problem with him operating
the restaurant?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">I
talked to one of the vet’s at Lynn
Animal Hospital and he told me that
trash has been a problem behind their
building recently. Freydoun told me a
few days ago that he’s been cleaning up
the parking lot after he closes. I’m
guessing that maybe some of the trash
behind the building is from McDonald’s
patrons parking there after hours. I
believe McDonalds is now open for 24
hours. It would be easy to determine if
this is the case. Just check to see how
much McDonald’s trash is in the back of
the Calvert House on a Saturday or
Sunday morning.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">I
feel that the Town should be working
with Freydoun to resolve this problem as
if he were a college not an enemy. He’s
been here a lot longer than many of us.
Doesn’t this mean anything to the Town?
He as his wife are good people and their
business is an asset to Riverdale Park.<span
class="HOEnZb"></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";font-size:11pt">P.S.
You’ve read my posts long enough to
know I don’t mince words. Bear with me
if I don’t have all of the facts
straight. I did do some research on the
issue. Please make the necessary
corrections to anything I’ve written if
applicable.</span></p>
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Town of Riverdale Park, Maryland<br>
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