You can see the property from covenant park when the foliage isn’t overgrown. It’s a beautiful home but I would not want to deal with traffic at my driveway at a three million dollar property. That little street gets so busy with soccer games on weekends. Rumor has it the home’s driveway used to go to 108 but was rerouted to centennial for school districting purposes.

Living Wellness in Columbia. Have had a good experience with the chiropractors as well as the staff.

We've liked our experience with Julia Brown, when your child gets to 15 months.

Out of the three you mentioned if you can afford it Goddard is probably the way to go. The Young School was praised until it got acquired by Learning care Group, who I believe also own La Petit. Since the acquisition it has gone downhill, with many employees leaving and the remaining ones losing morale.

I liked touring Children's World [Edit: Manor], both locations in northern Columbia and Ellicott City, but the Columbia one is the only one that does infants, and of the two, I didn't vibe well with the director. I also liked what I heard from Columbia Academy, my spouse may have toured them, I think we went with JB because of cost.

Another Edit: Primrose is also really highly touted.

That’s so noble of you not to blame coal minors trying to survive in an economically depressed area or engineers, software developers, or other well-educated individuals that I’m talking about working at Lockheed in one of the wealthiest areas on the planet.

Just two groups of similar people, with so few options available to them, trying to grind it out in the great American experience.

I have to wonder why anyone would build that large of a mansion almost directly beneath one of the loudest flight paths in the area? I'm sure the house is wonderful, but I just can't deal with the air traffic around here, and that's right near where they come in to the eastbound BWI approach path from the north.

Block in Burtonsville.

Thank you 🙏

I had a good experience with Morrison Chiropractic in Ellicott City; I think they have an office in Clarksville too.

very nice, thanks for sharing

If I understand the deed history here, this land was part of a parcel bought by a church in 1993. The church then split the parcel in two and put an agricultural easement on one of the new parcels in exchange for being able to build on the other parcel. Both parcels were bought by the Soccer Association of Columbia in 2002. They then put soccer fields on the buildable parcel and, in 2004, sold off the parcel with the easement, which is the one we're looking at here. They still own the parcel with the soccer fields; it's the Lucido Fields at Covenant Park.

I'm not sure why SAC bought both parcels when they only needed the one, but perhaps it was part of a deal with the church. "We don't want to sell both parts separately, so if you want the one, you have to take both and then figure out what to do with the other yourself," perhaps.

Also, as a side note, the church still owns a chunk of the buildable parcel, but I can't tell how the parcel's ownership has been transferred. It was definitely sold to SAC, so probably at some point SAC subdivided the parcel further and sold a chunk back to the church. I can't find the deeds for that, though, and I don't feel like trawling through the deed indexes to try and find anything relevant.

For better or worse we are all cogs in a much larger system. I don't blame coal miners for global warming and I certainly don't think their opinions are more or less valid because of their occupation. I blame our government for not investing enough in clean energy and local activist groups from blocking solar panel projects because they dont like the look of panels. Ad hominem criticism are one of the weakest rhetorical points. Particularly when what we're talking about is an increase in housing units, which we can legitimately argue about merits/demerits and the attack is about...foreign policy.

There’s some photos of the property from an old real estate listing here: https://www.redfin.com/MD/Ellicott-City/4580-Centennial-Ln-21042/home/106070370

That outdoor kitchen is stunning!

I wonder why SAC owned it at one point.

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Riiiiight… I hear this all the time living in this area and it cracks me up.

“Yeah, I work for one of the most evil companies on the planet, one whose growth is predicated on endless (and usually illegal) wars and bombings but, hey, a job’s a job right?”

She’ll post about police brutality and gun deaths while working here:

https://amp.theguardian.com/world/2018/aug/19/us-supplied-bomb-that-killed-40-children-school-bus-yemen

Bonchon, next to the mall, check them out will not be disappointed

The church isn't an owner. The current owners are Robert and Lisa Berg. The property description is "PAR B 62.971 A, 4580 CENTENNIAL LN, COVEN BAP CHUR OF W COLU", because it was originally created in the 1990s (I think) when land owned by a church was divided into two parcels, this one being the ~63 acre parcel "B". The lot has been sold several times since then; the current and previous owners appear to have been private individuals.

"Today, Columbia is more diverse than ever. Census figures show the community is 49% white and 28% Black, with fast-growing Asian (13%) and Hispanic or Latino (9%) populations."

Diversity is there....

"The troubling thing we found was an increasing or creeping segregation that appears to be occurring in Columbia with the isolation of African Americans from the white community and decrease of exposure between racial groups in Columbia"

The only land available to build on is far way from Oakland Mills/Long Reach/Hammond/Wilde Lake which supports her claim of whites living farther from African Americans. I think we are in a catch 22. It's a zoning issue.

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While not a fan of the military industrial complex, a job is a job and you have to pay the bills somehow. Not everyone can work at an NGO. Besides there's a lot of military hawks with a progressive domestic agenda on the Left and vice versa. You don't have to adhere to every aspect of the most far left of the Democratic Party to be a progressive.

Thanks ill check it out

Here's a Baltimore Banner article about increasing segregation. This is a more in depth report about the housing market in HoCo and the rising costs of housing due to lack of supply. Matter of opinion but I think that spot is a good place to put higher density homes. It's right next to the village, and there are vacant storefronts that could use the extra customers.

Interesting thanks.

FYI it looks like it's zoned for agriculture, not residential, so they are basically only taxed on the house and an acre of their land. To do that they have a number of ag requirements they are meeting to not pay the higher tax rate. That also means the land is less valuable because you can't subdivide it into lots.

Oh I see the value now. So they probably pay something.

Weirdly It’s also listed as a Special Tax Recapture: AGRICULTURAL TRANSFER TAX And also list a church as owner.