Mt. Rainier resident Ashley Malliburton expresses her support for the Leave PG campaign.

Mt. Rainier, June 29 — Mt. Rainier’s shock vote to pull out of PG County has rattled real estate developers and driven the Anacostia Hour to a 31-year low against the greenback.

Following the “Leave PG” campaign’s triumph in Friday’s referendum, real estate developers voiced fears that Mt. Rainier properties would become less attractive to foreign investors.

“Mt. Rainier is a hot, hot market, but this vote means we will have to delay the freeze on deferring our plans for condo projects on Rhode Island Avenue,” said Gus Weemer, head of DevMax Group Inc.

Weemer said the Leave PG vote “sends the wrong message to Saudi royals, who used to flock here for the shopping, dining, and access to aviation schools… to lure them back, Mt. Rainier’s going to have to loosen the rules about beheadings.”

But Mt. Rainier activists such as Michael Dellumous, 47, worry that such development might come at too high a price, and “change the character of the neighborhood.”

“This is a quiet community,” said Dellumous. “I want to be able to walk to Glut without hearing the screams of tortured Sri Lankan maids.”

“If we could get a Starbucks, though, I might change my mind,” added Dellumous.

Opposition City Council member Steve Abourzek, who sponsored dancing elephant parades in support of the Leave PG campaign, hailed the referendum results.

Leave PG campaign tactics angered local animal rights activists.

“This vote sends a message to the bureaucrats in Upper Marlboro that people are fed up,” said Abourzek. “No longer will caravans deliver our sandalwood, myrrh, and virgin daughters to be sacrificed on the altar of county government.”

Abourzek expressed confidence that city authorities would soon set up checkpoints on all major arteries “to keep out undesirables.”

Hours after the referendum, exuberant Leave PG supporters still wandered 34th St., looking in vain for stores willing to accept their Anacostia Hours.

“Yesterday, I could get a bag of Seaweed Snax at Glut for 11 Anacostia Hours,” said  Leave PG supporter Ashley Malliburton, 33. “All of my savings are in Anacostia Hours.”

“I’m so hungry.”