Here's a good way to relax at the income tax deadline this year. Wheaton-Claridge Local Park will be reopening to the public on
Saturday, April 14, 2018, at 11:00 AM. A two-hour celebration will include a ribbon-cutting, and family-friendly activities. Wheaton-Claridge Local Park is located at 11901 Claridge Road in Wheaton, off of Veirs Mill Road. Enjoy the kind of expansive park the Montgomery County Council and their developer sugar daddies have decided County residents don't deserve anymore. Our future is green postage stamps, dog parks and hardscaped, dystopian "active urban parks."
Wut? That was piss poor Rob
ReplyDelete4:16: That phrase would describe your attempt to post 3 comments and pass them off as 3 different commenters. LOL
DeleteOh, please, Dyer... this article reaches a level of stupidity that beggars belief.
ReplyDelete"Enjoy the kind of expansive park the Montgomery County Council and their developer sugar daddies have decided County residents don't deserve anymore. Our future is green postage stamps, dog parks and hardscaped, dystopian "active urban parks."
This park was created nearly six decades ago, at or before the surrounding neighborhood was built, because the terrain was too rugged to build homes there. You can't just snap your fingers and decide to build an "expansive park" in an area that is ALREADY BUILT-UP. Do you have the slightest idea of how parks are created?
Would you describe Veterans Park in the Woodmont Triangle as "a hardscaped dystopian active urban park"?
No, because Veterans Park is a hardscaped, passive urban park. It is a place where you either stop to remember the veterans at the memorial, stop to eat or rest, or stop to listen to live music in the summer.
DeleteYou simply proved my point - one property owner controls both sides of Westbard and Ridgefield in the Westbard sector, but was not required to contribute a significant park before the redevelopment is "already built-up." Same in Glenmont, Wheaton, Long Branch plans, etc., etc.
Says the guy who wants to build freeways through Matthew Henson Park, Sligo Creek Parkway, Northwest Branch Park, and Wheaton Regional Park.
ReplyDelete12:32: Every one of the parks you mention was a highway facility designated as early as the 1930s. Matthew Henson "Park" is actually the Rockville Facility, and was meant first for the Outer Beltway, and later for the Rockville Freeway.
DeleteHow does this attitude towards parks mesh with your support of the Montrose East Parkway? Cause that would go through an existing park...
ReplyDelete10:37: So do many other roads - the Rockville Facility a.k.a. Montrose Parkway/Matthew Henson Trail has always been designated as a highway facility.
DeleteNo, it has been designated as a PARK since plans for the Rockville Facility were withdrawn SEVERAL DECADES AGO.
ReplyDeleteToday's challenge for you is to provide an example of the term "highway facility" used to label this park, in any County document published since the proposal for the Rockville Facility was withdrawn.