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Posted
Nov. 29, 2002
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District Funds Should Not be Used for Reston Skate Park |
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To the editor:
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| Just three weeks ago, I began leading a petition drive opposing
the current RCC skateboard park proposal. The petition does
not oppose a skateboard park in Reston. It does, however,
oppose the inappropriate use of Small Tax District 5 funds
for this purpose, funds collected from residential and business
property owners in Zip codes 20190, 20191, and 20194. |
| Specifically, our petition opposes the fact that 80 percent
of the projected skateboard park users will come from outside
Small Tax District 5 (meaning the current proposal is in reality
a Fairfax County facility); the $1 million plus proposed price
tag is disproportionate with demand, projected principally
to be just 5 percent of our youth aged 6-17 (leaving unmet
the many needs of the 95 percent of our youth who don't skate);
and the proposal is insensitive to residential concerns considering
an identical park can be built in Reston that does not abut
residential neighborhoods, will cost taxpayers at least 25
percent less, and can expand well into the future. |
| We have already collected signatures from nearly 600 Reston
residents who oppose the current proposal. While the drive
originally started in West Market, we recently began canvassing
the broader Reston community. We are finding that almost three
of every four Reston residents that we approach at various
public locations sign our petition. |
| Despite this, and we have kept the RCC updated on our petition-0efforts
the RCC continues to represent that it has heard from more
people that support the proposal than oppose it. |
| In my view, this reflects the RCC's biased agenda. |
| Many more people in our community oppose the current proposal
than support it. We need your help in continuing to collect
their signatures; petition drives are labor intensive. Contact
us if you are interested in signing the petition or volunteering
to collect signatures at 703-852-7174. |
| Robert Noble |
| Reston |
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