Say what you like about the prospects for a mammoth, huge, gigantic, towering 275-foot skyscraper in downtown Columbia, but the debate over this single building --- like the conversation going on over the proposed Wegman's --- has stirred real discussion about the future of this fair town.
According to WaPo's account of this week's council meeting on the highrise condo, both sides invoked the name of Rouse in saying he would or would not have approved of where we are headed. Suddenly, everyone wants to talk about the Next America again.
One wonders if the nature of the debates would be any different if they played out not before county planning commissions and councils but a panel of Columbia elders.
What if we controlled our own destiny?
Isn't that what Father Rouse really wanted?
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