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Quandt Dr. Erwin and Mary Ann Rabin Betsy Rader Susanne and John Rahilly Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Ramerman Mr. and Mrs. Edward L. Randall Paul Rander and Joy Willmott Mr. and Mrs. Claiborne Rankin Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Rankin, Jr. Bruce Rankin Mr. and Mrs. Chuck Rankin Mr. and Mrs. Arliss Ratliff Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ratner Mr. Frank Rausche Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Rayner Roger and Judy Read Michael Reagan The Creation of Forest Ridge from Charles Lang 14 Mark Skowronski e-mailed asking of me a seemingly simple task, “Charles, would you write in a paragraph about why you chose preservation, what your land means to you, et cetera” I thought that was a daunting task. Explaining our reasoning and thus answering his question would be easy, but to reduce those answers to one paragraph would be impossible. I thought of the time we have been here on Chagrin River Road and how we measure land dealings in decades. One paragraph could not do meaningful justice to help another landowner consider what motivated our charity and to ponder the same. Space limitations being what they are for articles, the full tale will remain untold. But to prevent the publication of some synopsis guess at why we did what we did, let me endeavor to pinpoint in just a few paragraphs the gist of our motivation. Through life experiences, most notably the premature loss of my father, we have accepted the fact that it was necessary for us to actively decide the fate of this cherished property rather than adopting a wait-and-see attitude. Consider this result – we die and the “For Sale” sign goes up (read: to the highest bidder, who is almost always a developer). Just look around and you see regularly that as an elder generation passes, the property too often goes on the block. Perhaps it is because no one sibling can afford to keep it or none cares sufficiently to want it to remain in the family, but either way the end result is the same. In months (or sometimes sadly in just days) the inheritors abandon by sale property that was nurtured and cherished. Sadly, then, they just pocket their share of the proceeds from another’s lifetime. Tender as we are in years on this earth, we are the elder generation with respect to the Langs’ tenure on Chagrin River Road and that is a responsible role. With the swirl of a pen in a flowing signature we could preserve or destroy a vast array of landscape across from the Polo Field and that result would last forever. It just did not seem right for us to have fought so many years to hold on to this terra firma to ultimately let its fate go upon our deaths. So instead, we chose ourselves to be the grantors of the preservation deeds while well alive and able to enjoy doing so. Yes, we could have waited until death to preserve it; but why wait It is a wonderful feeling to part with real property knowing what its future “forever” will be. The perpetuity of this land as a passive park certainly held great appeal, for now anyone who cares can come to enjoy the land as it has been and will be. In so doing, we also know for certain that with the deed now held by the Village of Moreland Hills and a conservation easement held by Western Reserve Land Conservancy, our contribution to Forest Ridge Preserve can not be sold for development (which could have resulted in a mere 31 new monster homes popping up on those hills). There is a clear charitable choice made to receive less value by preserving one’s land rather than having it sold to a developer. But if you don’t need the development value during your lifetime, one should easily be able to preserve the land with no harm to self financially, in fact only benefit. “What about your children and grandchildren, you may be asking yourself” Ponder well that you can still give them everything else on your death--other than the ability to destroy that which should be preserved– the historic realty. I would ultimately surmise that the certainty of our deaths, hopefully some day far in the future, caused us to decide today the eternal preservation fate of this portion of Chagrin River Road.
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