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5 July 2007 Greenbelt News Review GREENBELT News ReviewAn Independent Newspaper VOL. 70, No. 33 15 Crescent Rd., Suite 100, Greenbelt, MD 20770-1887 JULY 5, 2007 Council and Café Board Discuss Ambulatory Care Center Coming to Greenbelt East Outdoor Sales of Beer and Wine by Elaine Skolnik by Thomas X. White In 1998 proposed plans for The site is part of an office, development of a medical of- shopping and hotel/dining com- The Greenbelt City Council beer or wine to the tables. (3) ments for beer and wine service fice building in Greenbelt East plex that was annexed by the city met with representatives of the The boundary of the outdoor on the outdoor patio. were approved but never imple- more than 20 years ago. To the New Deal Café on Monday, June New Deal Café property is to be Financial Update mented by then-owners Dimen- south is the undeveloped Sunrise 11 to discuss conditions the city clearly delineated with some type New Deal Café members also sions Healthcare System. Over property, recently included in the hopes the county liquor board of separation from the adjacent provided council with an update the years many revisions of the city’s Forest Preserve; to the east will attach to the Café’s request public (city) property. (4) There on the Café’s financial status original site plan had been pre- and north and west are devel- to serve alcohol outdoors on its is to be regular supervision of the and how it is dealing with cash- sented before Dimensions bowed oped commercial properties in the patio. Early in May the city outdoor area. flow and indebtedness problems out permanently. Maryland Trade Center. learned that the Prince George’s More Conditions since the board election and new When Caperian, Inc. arrived According to city planners, County Board of License Com- In the meantime, council management at the Café. May on the scene, the new owners the facility will be partitioned missioners (BLC) had on its met with representatives of the stressed that the Café was hold- sought approval of a nearly iden- into condominium units sold to May 9 agenda the request from Roosevelt Center Merchant’s As- ing more frequent membership tical proposal for development of doctors. Individual practices will the Café. An additional request sociation and received additional meetings which helped stabilize an outpatient medical care center focus on orthopedic medicine. was to change the organization’s suggestions for conditions that operations. on roughly 2.7 acres of land on a Included will be an arthritis pain names on the license since its the group felt should be applied Additionally the Café has nearby tract known as Maryland center, out-patient surgical suites election of a new board of direc- by the BLC to any approval of benefited from several festivals Trade Center IV (Parcel 1), the and doctors’ offices. tors. the New Deal Café request. The and events at Roosevelt Center last piece of land in the Mary- Detailed Site Plan In a May 9 letter to the BLC, June 11 worksession was thus this spring, including the Green land Trade Center development. Former applicant Caperian City Manager Michael McLaugh- arranged to discuss the proposed Man Festival, a Blues Festi- Originally the proposed facility remained on the scene until the lin requested that consideration conditions with the Café leaders. val and the recent Art Auction was sited on part of Parcel 4, the Prince George’s County Planning of the New Deal Café request be All members of council were held at the Café. The auction Holiday Inn tract. Board adopted the project’s De- deferred until the city council had present, as well as McLaughlin, was arranged by the Café Arts Now a facility called the Am- tailed Site Plan (DSP) on July 20, time to fully consider and com- City Clerk Kathleen Gallagher Coordinator with the help of bulatory Care Center will rise 2006. (The Greenbelt City Coun- ment on the matter. and Lt. David Buerger and Sgt. Friends of the New Deal Café on property that is located a half cil in early June 2006 recom- The issue was thus on the Jerry Potts of the Greenbelt Po- Arts (FONDCA) and local art- mile southwest of the intersection mended approval of the DSP with May 14 agenda of council and, lice Department. ists. The festivals helped bring of Greenbelt Road and Hanover conditions.) Since then Caperian in a May 16 follow-up letter to Representing the New Deal patrons to the Café and the Cen- Parkway at the terminus of Ha- transferred the Ambulatory Care the BLC, Mayor Judith F. Davis Café were Peter May, the Café’s ter and the live auction proceeds nover Drive. The street address Center to Manekin Corporation expressed appreciation for its de- new president; board members of nearly $2,300 will be used to of the new center will be 7300 ferral of the New Deal Café’s re- David Ziegler, Dorian Winterfeld replace needed Café food prepa- Hanover Drive. See HEALTH, page 8 quest for outdoor alcohol service. and Elena Khasanova and Café ration equipment. Her letter noted that a majority General Manager Joel Moodie. May also reported that the of councilmembers voted to sup- May reported that the Café’s organization was now current port allowing the Café to serve license had been changed to re- with the IRS and with the city on Museum to Host Lecture alcohol outdoors on an adjacent flect the name changes stem- the use of the Community Center sidewalk/patio. ming from the new organization. kitchen charges but that costs On Greener Greenbelt Four listed conditions were May’s name is now on the li- and cash flow still present chal- by Megan Searing Young included, however: (1) No plas- cense along with those of Win- lenges. Café leadership continues tic cups or bottles are allowed terfeld and Ray Stevens. Based to work on those challenges and outside. The beer and wine is on the city’s communications, the has enlisted the services of a On Tuesday, July 17 at 7:30 p.m., the Greenbelt Museum will only to be served in glasses. (2) BLC advised the New Deal Café new bookkeeper and the advice host a lecture, “The Greener Table service is to be required to maintain discussions with the of a CPA. at the outdoor tables. Patrons city to develop a more specific Greenbelt Initiative: a Participa- tory Process for Preserving and are not allowed to carry their agreement on proposed require- See COUNCIL, page 6 Upgrading Historic Greenbelt.” The program will be held at the New Deal Café in Roosevelt Greenbelt Middle School to Be Center. The evening’s focus will be a discussion of the Greener Green- Replaced at a Cost of $41 Million belt Initiative (GGI), a work- by Mary Moien ing partnership between Green- belt Homes, Inc. (GHI) and the Both speakers, Jim Cohen American Institute of Architects and Carl Elefante, have devoted On June 14 the Greenbelt that final decisions had been school is completed.” (AIA) Potomac Valley Chapter. much of their careers to explor- News Review published excerpts made. The question remains – what They explain that the two-year ing issues such as smart growth, from a letter to Greenbelt Middle A communication from John are the plans for repairs needed initiative will create a vision and community planning and revi- School Principal Judy Austin White, the school board’s pub- in the old building if it is to con- a strategic plan for livability, talization, and sustainable, green sent by County Councilmember lic information officer, pointed tinue to house students for the sustainability, affordability and architecture and development. Ingrid Turner following her tour out that the $41.8 million is the next several years? According to preservation in historic Greenbelt Cohen, a Greenbelt resident, of the school. Turner found the amount that is in the current White after the students relocate for the next 30 years. is director of the Urban Stud- school to be in deplorable condi- budget for Fiscal Years 2008- to the new school, newer portions Ideally, the strategic plan will ies and Planning Program at the tion. Other board of education 2013 for the school. This money of the old school will be demol- guide GHI in its capital outlays University of Maryland where members have recently visited reflects the current approved plan ished and the historic portions and operational spending. Orga- he has been a member of the the school and are in agreement for the school which is a to- retained for a use that has not nizers feel that participation by faculty since 1990. His courses that delays in construction at the tal replacement of the existing yet been determined. GHI members and other historic have included planning history school must be stopped. school, plus renovating the 1937 Future Needs Greenbelt stakeholders is critical The News Review has been in and 1945 historic portions of the The current plans and project to the success of this effort. See MUSEUM, page 6 contact with city staff and with building. cost for the new middle school the school board to try to obtain White indicated that this re- do not reflect any reference to more information. view of the project had been the elementary/middle school What Goes On City staff have indicated that transmitted to Turner and other combination designs and propos- Monday, July 9 they had scheduled a stakeholders school board members on June als regarding AIMCO. (Apart- 7 p.m., Recycling and Environment Advisory Committee, Com- meeting with the Board of Educa- 12.
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