Report of Special Committee On the Preservation of Rock Creek Valley As a Public Park
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Your Committee understand that a number of George- town people believe that the value of their property is kept down by the present uninviting connections with Washington and that values will rise when the valley is filled. To all who are of this belief we pre- dict disappointment because the proposed connections will be less inviting" than the existing ones, as it is natural that only inferior houses will be built upon the new made ground, whereas, if the valley is preserv- ed and is spanned b...y graceful bridges, values would ad- vance because the two sections would be united in a beau- tiful manner, as are the two sections of Paris, Edin- burg and other European cities. Your Committee desire to impress upon the minds of the citizens of Washington and Georgetown that parks are the "lungs of a city" and afford children a daily opportunity of breathing fresh, pure air, and are in con- sequence of incalculable benefit in the preservation of the children's health. The main reasons for the preservation of the Rock Creek Valley are succinctly embodied in the following resolutions adopted at a meeting of a number of the residents of Washington and Georgetown on the 25th of May, 1906: ''First.
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