Greendale, Wisconsin is one of three greenbelt towns envisioned by Rexford Guy Tugwell, friend and advisor to President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and created under the Resettlement Administration in 1935 under authority of the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. (Greenbelt, a suburb of Washington, D.C., and Greenhills, Ohio, near Cincinnati, are the other two towns. A fourth town, to be located in New Jersey, was never built.)
From the Journal Sentinel
Greendale - Electors have blocked plans by a church to buy 1.5 acres of school property for a parking lot, Greendale School District Superintendent William Hughes said Tuesday.
A preliminary count of the vote at the School Board's annual meeting on Monday was 288-199 against the sale of land to Greendale Community Church, 6015 Clover Lane. State law requires most school districts to put any sale of land to the voters.
The church had sought to buy the parcel to add parking spaces required for a planned expansion of its 53-year-old building. Some village residents objected, saying the sale of land, where many families gather for annual parades and fireworks, would increase traffic in residential areas and be contrary to the village's intent to preserve open space.
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