Wednesday, May 17, 2017

Mayor and Council seek permission to demolish Rockville home for parking lot

The Historic District Commission will consider whether or not to declare a 1977 home in Lincoln Park historic at their meeting tomorrow night, May 18, at 7:30 PM at City Hall. Rockville's Mayor and Council purchased the home recently, for the purpose of demolishing it to make room for a parking lot at the Lincoln Park Community Center.

Although the area is historic for being one of the first subdivisions in Montgomery County available for purchase by African-Americans, the home itself is on a parcel that was created in 1976, 313 1/2 Frederick Avenue. Staff liaison Sheila Bashiri is recommending against historic designation.

For my part, having attended a number of events and meetings at the community center, I can attest that additional parking spaces are desperately needed at this facility.

8 comments:

  1. Now, imagine Robert Dyer's response if the exact same situation happened in Westbard, rather than a black neighborhood like Lincoln Park.

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    1. 9:41: Is there a cemetery on this property? If not, I don't understand the comparison you're making with Westbard, where Montgomery County and Regency Centers are trying to build a garage on top of graves.

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    2. Actually, they're trying to build on the ground where there MAY be graves.
      Schrodinger's cat.

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    3. 11:53: There are documents that show the cemetery is there. There are no documents that support remains having been relocated. Facts can be inconvenient, but we must utilize them in situations like this.

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    4. Documents schmocuments. You don't know one way or the other until you dig up the ground.
      Classic Schrodinger's cat paradox.

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    5. 1:08: You would be OK with building a parking garage on top of Arlington National Cemetery? If they were proposing this for your family plot, you'd be screaming bloody murder. Check your racism. Classic Robert "Exalted Cyclops" Byrd paradox.

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    6. You can't understand, so you accuse racism.
      Don't do that.

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  2. But there was a problem with providing a parking lot for Pumohrey's Funeral Home in an historic district? Disgusting. But typical of our Mayor.

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