Where do you see that?

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According to the Howard County online map, it's a huge (60+ acres) privately owned lot, with a 9818 square foot house plus 2000 square foot basement!

Here is the tax assessment for the property: Maryland DAT

Curious if you have examples of it being more segregated. Maybe the mall development recently. River Hill does not have apartments like Oakland Mills or Long Reach do. We've always thought Columbia was at max capacity. The place OP is referring to is such a weird spot to build.

https://www.google.com/maps/@39.2402061,-76.8433059,3a,90y,358.71h,93.32t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1snl0UOghX2NS9QtMA9oIKww!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
This is what OP is talking about if anyone is curious. Look at the view from your front window on the 3rd level when these things get built, beautiful view of 108 LOL what an eye soar

Not to get way off topic but I wouldn’t trust anything written by that blog. It’s run by Jenny Solpietro, who is basically a parrot for her friend local developer lobbyist Tom Coale.

The irony of running a “progressive” blog while working for Lockheed Martin has somehow been completely lost on her too, lol.

Yeah the morning commute the traffic leaving the Dorsey area between the two lights is bad. The distance between the two lights and those lights are out of sync to handle more people in that area. The townhouses I imagine would be a continuation of those brick ones behind it. What a god awful view of 108 for 500k lol

The villages created by Rouse were high density townhomes or even higher density apartments. The successor to Rouse's company Howard Hughes developers want to build these but people are blocking them from doing so thus leading to lower density housing units and a shortage of housing. Rouse's vision was to create communities with a racial and socioeconomic diversity and Howard County has become more and more segregated on both fronts.

I think folks are upset that the developers aren’t in sync with the Rouse vision. Developers aren’t building villages anymore for communities sake. They are doing more houses in smaller areas for more profit.

No doubt.

You want them catered right, so order them in advance. They are just wings man. All wings have a ceiling.

She and Deb Jung both.

> the last thing that area and part of 108 needs is more traffic

I agree, and it's sort of a double-edged sword here

One of the best ways to combat urban sprawl, and traffic, is creating high-density housing, with good pedestrian accessibility, and good public transportation

Public transport in HoCo leaves something to be desired, to say the least

On every other side of the Dorsey Hall Village Center, there was already high-density housing instead of single-family homes with yards, and it has been that way for decades

On the bright side, it's near a center that has a number of essential needs, which increases walkability at least a little bit and could reduce traffic in that regard

> at the expense of our woodlands.

I agree 100%. The value of green spaces is often underrated IMO

It remains to be seen if the developer has any sense of respect for the value green spaces provide to a community

I think it's probably as responsible a spot as any to develop, but without improvements to pedestrian accessibility and better public transport, traffic will inevitably become more challenging to deal with

No, but I got a great deal on an acre of land during the Rouse era where my neighbor isn’t wall to wall to me for twice the cost.

The amount of money needed to run for county executive requires some wealthy people to be in your pocket in order to fund the race.

Did you build your own house?

What's the name of the development you live in?

The "champion" of affordable housing Liz Walsh blocked the apartment complex with designated affordable units. The area is already zoned for higher density, so now townhomes are being built instead.

People move to these counties because that's where the jobs are. When you restrict development, housing becomes more expensive for everybody. It also just drives people to move to places like Carroll, which increases traffic and leads to even more sprawl.

This is what you get when you elect a County Exec. that is bought and paid for by developers.

Paywall

They were using those houses for fire drill tests and police raid tests. It might be a part of the new irrigation and water stuff they're doing. I've been curious to look it up in the county planner.

Liz Walsh is a disgrace.

I don't know what the end result was, but here's a blog post from 2020 describing the construction plans and NIMBYism happening.

The store by the Mom's Organic Market and the Ollie's? Might check it out...

May try this one first...thanks.