Comments on: Cafritz Workshop 1 recap

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Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:57:03 +0000

[...] A good writeup of the workshop from last Saturday, published on Rethinking College Park: http://rethinkcollegepark.net/blog/2007/409/ [...]

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:52:40 +0000

Thank you again to the Cafritz family for establishing such an open and constructive process of considering options for your site. I’m confident that very good ideas will come out of the process. You are setting a very high standard for other developers in the community. Kudos.

By: Robert Catlin

Robert Catlin — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 13:16:07 +0000

With respect to the trolley trail easement, the actual 60 foot wide easement no longer exists on the property, as the Cafritz family took legal action in about 2000 to take possession of that “abandoned” property. It should not matter too much as any approved development plan would likely be required to maintain a trail that connected at the north and the south of the property to the other pieces of the trail. So the physical location of the trail may shift somewhat from the old easement to accomodate proposed development, rather than the trail somewhat dictating how the parcel is developed.

By: Route ! Growth

Route ! Growth — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 03:33:46 +0000

Nice report, thanks for the work. Please note that the Thursday event will be significantly condensed. Jane Lipton Cafritz gave the following schedule:
30 min. overview
60 min. visiting stations to provide input
30 min. summation of comments
Please come prepared to provide your opinions and ideas. See http://www.route1growth.com for background and issues to consider re: the property’s development. I suspect that the history portion of Thur.’s presentation will be somewhat abridged. We are trying to confirm whether childcare will be available.