17 December 1987 Greenbelt News Review
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Council Asked to Improve frttnbtlt Trash Recycling Program by Steve Galanis At its Dec. 7 regular meeting, the city council author ized the purchase of new police communication center equipment for $62,298.05 from Motorola Communications Dtws Btuitw and Electronics, Inc. Provision for the equipment, sultant study which was com AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER to be housed in t,he new police pleted for Greenbelt earlier this Volume 51, Number 4 P.O. Box 68, Greenbelt, Maryland 20770 Thurs., Dec. 17, 1987 facility, was not included in the year and reviewed by the city's -------------------=---..;.;;.;..;;....:.. __ .:;.. _______ ...;,;.;.....:... ___ ...;.. __ city's buHding contract with Pa r k and Recreation Advisory Edmar Construction Co. How Board and the Community Rela ever, the equipment is to be ob tions Advisory Board. Council's tained through Edmar as an add directive to the Crime Preven Residents Give Council Clear Message; on to the contract at no addi trnn Committee is a follow- up of tional cost or profit to the com the city's review of its existing pany. drug education/ enforcement ac Prevent Development on Wooded Tract During the meeting, council t :vit!es, and those done in other heard an earful durrng the pe Maryland jurisdictions. by Mavis Fletcher tempted to defend the council Council member Thomas X. titions and requests segment. Council also voted to prohibit against a perception that coun Aside ftom the Parcel 1 peti all through truck traffic from A large group of residents White also mentioned that the tion (see separate story) coun u3)ng Crescent Road and South cil had encouraged ( or at least parcel has some features such crowded the city council had not discouraged) the idea cil received two others. Diane way. Signs wHl be put up near chamber at the regular that they would be supportive as sewer problems which may C:i.meron o.f the 12 Court of the Kenilworth A venue/ Crescent council meeting on Decem of a proposal for single-family put constraints on development. Ridge Road asked the city to Road and Greenbelt Road/South ber 7 to express their deter homes on tJhis land. This pro develop a publicity campaign to way Road intersections to dis Petition Supporters mination that Parcel 1, the posal had been discussed at a improve awareness of and par rourage trucks from cutting north end tract of woods November 19 work session with Margaret Hogensen, president ticipation in Greenbelt's trash through Green-belt instead of now threatened by a devel representatives of the Rocky of Greenbelt Homes, Inc., the recycling program. After the pe using the .major road arteries. opment plan, be left undevel Gorge Company, contra'Ct pur housing cooperative which ad tition, Rutih Bond of Greenhill Board Appointments chaser of the tract. W eidenifeld Road commented that the city's The following city advisory oped. About 150 citizens joins Parcel 1 on two sides, read Pu'b1ic Works Department could .board and committee appoint maintained that council had tak two motions adopted by the GHI showed up to tell the council en no action and had given no improve its method of collecting ments were made by council: that they didn't want to board of directors at a meeting recyclable products at the ware Michael Moore, Bill Ayers-Em encouragement to the prospective on December 3. In the first mo hear about reasonable pro house. She said the designated ployee Relations Board; Barry developer. He said that council tion, the board of directors op posals, low density develop collection area, inside the gate Sullivan, Wayne Spong - Park had done nothing except listen posed any development of Par ment, or any other half-way to pro.posals. near the center of the parking and Recreation Advisory Board; cel 1 other than for parkland lot, is often strewn with broken M a r y Helen Spear, Marvin measures: they wanted the and encouraged the city to pur Mayor pro tern Joseph Isaacs glass, and that a container . for Holmes - Community Relations 102 acres left in a natural chase this J.and to help maintain state with, as one speaker gave the same d,efense. He said the recyclable waste is often Advisory Board; and P. J. Sie that councH had given this de See RESIDENTS, page 5 lacking. gel, A. Harris - Crime Preven phrased it, "zero homes" on veloper the courtesy of a hear Bill Rowland, Jr. appeared be tion Committee. the land. ing as it would to any new own fore council to request that a Regular council -meetings in er of private :property in the Ruth Kastner, acting chair Newspaper Office previous petition he had brought January and February are person of the Committee to Save city. He further maintained that to the council be considered in scheduled on the second and the Green Belt, presented a pe neither he nor any other member Closed Tuesday a work session. T,hat petition con fourth Mondays of the month of council had spoken in favor of (January 11, 25; February 8, tition signed, she said, by some Because c;f the Christmas cerned recommendations for im 800-900 citizens. Kastner called the Rocky Gorge proposal. He proved safety measures on city 22) instead of the conventional said he does not sup,port de and New Year's Eve holidaiys, on council to apply immediately the News Review office wil\l be projects and other increased arrangement of the first and the $1, 765,00t' previously agreed velopment and c·ontinues to favor sa.fety precautions. third Mondays. January work purchase of the land by the cit . cpen on Monday, December on for park! nd acquisition and 21, and on Monday, December Weidenfeld noted that the city sessions include Smith-Ewing development to the task of ac Council me .m ,b er Antoinette 2B, frcm 2 to 4 in the after had just set up a safety commit Lot 2, January 4; Domino's Piz quiring as much as possible of za, January 5; and bond projects Bram said that she had signed noon, and from 8 to 10 in the tee which would devise a com Parcel 1. She then went further eveni111g. Copy and ads ma,y prehensive safety program for capital costs estimates, Janu the petition which was being 18. and requested that council " ... 'be 100-owght, to the office until the city's employ~es. Bram sug ary offer the owner a respectable presented. "I'm witih you," she 10 p.:m. on those Mondays; gested that Rowland should feel prjce for Parcel 1, comparable said. copy to be letft in the News "fairly victorious" a.bout the re Seek Out and Destroy to what he is asking of 'his con Review box at the Co-o,p sults of his petition. Rowland, tract purchaser," in order to Coundl member Edward Pu Gypsy Moth Eggs Now tens called meetings such as the sho'lild be deposited 'by 7 p.m. however, appeared to be unsatis acquire the whole tract. (For on tlhose M,ondays. The office fied with a statement made by The gy,psy moth is a great examples of the tax impact of work session a chance to make prospective developers aware of wiN be elose:-d 071 Tuesday, Giese at an earlier council meet threat to trees. Last year one of this proposal, see box page 5.) the 'hot spots of gypsy moth in any factors which might affect Decemiber 22, and on Tuesday, ing when the .petition was pre Council Position the development potential of a Decem:ber 29. sented. Giese said that he •had fest,ation in Prince ~orges Coun Mayor Gil Weidenfeld at- piece of property. just received a transcript of ty was University Park. that meeting and would answer Now is a good time to seek out the points when he had had ti-me the egg masses, when they are Large Crowd Turns Out for Work Session to study the transcript. more visilble, and destroy them. Special Populations Th:e ~g masses are buff-colored, Staff recommendations approv thumb-sized -Lumps on trees, On Parcel I Though Developer is Ahse11t ed by the council that evening 0hristmas trees. woodpiles, and included the hiring of a Thera lawn furniture. The ·eggs were by Diane Oberg council and t,he citizens was how belt Homes, Inc. and west of the peutic Recreation Supervisor for 1aid in August and will hatch in The December 8 city coun to assure purchase of the parcel Baltimore/ Washington Parkway, special populations, and a direc April. without driving up the price of was to ·be purchased by the city tive to the Crime Prevention Scrape the egig masses into a cil worksession on Parcel 1, the land. Keith Chernikoff, not using bond- issue revenues, ac Committee to convene a panel pail of bleach, ammonia or soa.py like the regular meeting the ing that a strategy can only be cording to a .Tune 29 agreement of experts to help develop an water and leave t,hem there for night before, was attended developed in a closed meeting, within council on priorities. How effective drug awareness / en several minutes. T•hat will kill by a standing-room-only said that the discussions at the ever, councU allocated just $750,- forcement campaign for Green them before they can hatch out, crowd. The meeting was to council meeting and work session 0CO for the nurchase of both this belt. The staff recommendation and kill trees. have featured the presenta had possibly doubled the price of parcel and the smaller but more for the new recreation depart C,al,l t!he state De:pa.1-tmem, of tion of a revised develop the land.