happy first day of spring! narberth borough still has turning sabine park into development on the brain. borough council meeting 7 pm tonight.

So yo, Narbs and Lower Merion neighbors, did you think this was going away? It is NOT. I wrote about this before and the lawyer fighting to save this park is working hard (Phil Rosenzweig) BUT people? You need to go BACK to meetings and speak. Or speak via zoom. Email. Contact media.

I checked when this all went up on Narberth Borough’s website for this evening and well, can you say shifty? They barely provide notice and that is a TYPICAL SLEZOID move to keep people away from meetings.

Narberth’s Democrats should be ashamed since well.. developing a park is hardly environmentally friendly is it? It’s just greed and laziness.

Where is the clause about shady shit in trying to sell a park for development???

People, you can zoom or go in person. But NOTHING beats bodies in the seats in person.

The Save Sabine Coalition has a website. It does need to be updated, as people have lives and they get busy. But folks? It’s pretty simple: if you don’t take an interest, Narberth Borough Council will continue down this path, which to me is sad and I thought they had grown past it but they haven’t.

https://www.sabinecoalition.com

I can’t fight this fight for you guys, I can only point it out. And I can say I think it is WRONG because it is wrong. But these people who are Narberth Borough government including lame duck Mayor Andrea Deutsch need to hear it from you guys.

That is kind of all I have got.

Narberth has issues and there are people on this borough council who leave me gobsmacked that they don’t get this.

Downingtown tried this a few years ago and got smacked down all the way to the PA Supremes.

Philadelphia Inquirer: Pa. high court ruling preserves parkland, limits town power to sell

In a victory for land preservationists, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled municipalities cannot sell public parkland or allow developers to use public land for private easements without court approval and public participation.

by Michaelle Bond

Published June 21, 2017, 12:48 p.m. ET

https://casetext.com/case/in-re-friends-of-kardon-park-1

Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Restricts Sale of Parklands

July 26, 2017
Montgomery McCracken

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narberth borough wants to develop sabine park? 🛑 stop the presses and stop narberth borough

Honestly I can’t even with this news. I can’t even. For years the tiny shiny Glocca Morra adjacent to the Magic Kingdom of Lower Merion Township in Montgomery County has told everyone how green they were , how into open space they are….and then the bomb drops: 201 Sabine Avenue…those asshats want to sell Sabine Park??? For real? Yup- see below ⬇️

Like I said I. Can’t. Even.

Where to start? Didn’t they research what happened when ummm….Downingtown tried to sell Kardon Park for development? (Hint see Friends of Kardon Park on Facebook. )

So Sabine Park has been a park for what? 100 years give or take?

What do I say (if it matters)?

OH HELL NO.

So I got an email today which inspired this post:

SAVE SABINE! SAVE SABINE! Sabine Park/property was gifted to the community over 100 years ago.

Friends, organizations across our region have been formed to save and protect public land/land held in the public trust from local government attempts to seize and develop them. Narberth is no different. Please support this organization and help to preserve Narberth parks.

On June 15, 7pm, 80 Windsor Ave Narberth(attached to library building, next to ball fields). The Sabine Coalition will hold a meeting with their Attorney Phil Rosenzweig to address community concerns over Narberth Borough government attempts to harm this park. Rosenzweig has reiterated the state laws that protect this property to Narberth Borough leadership. Council has not responded to requests to meet with the public and have ignored Rosenzweig’s request to meet as well.

www.sabinecoalition.com This site provides background and information on this property. There is a meeting registration request on front page.

“It’s NOT about POLITICS, it’s about our PARKS”

Phil Rosenzweig doesn’t mess around and he plays to win. And Narberth Borough seems to have been ignoring him? (Oh and Narberth Borough is working with people out of Paoli called Real Estate Strategies Inc.)

Help Sabine Park STAY a PARK

Tell Narberth to go to hell with this plan. When did Narberth get so bad government AGAIN?

www.sabinecoalition.com