Monday, November 16, 2009

What Town Center Wants

Here's the testimony offered up by the people who currently live downtown.

(Or at least those who sit on the board of the Town Center Community Association)

Some highlights:

We are the people who now number 4,622 in 2,047 households, and we cannot conceive of or easily accept almost tripling our population by adding 5,500 new residential units requiring 8,250 parking spaces...

We believe the new Route 29 interchange at South entrance Road is imperative...

...bicycle lanes should be required on all major streets and roads...

We are the people, who being most affected by Downtown would like a meaningful voice as development proceeds...

We are the people who want a Downtown that is human-scale, and who thought that Columbians had arrived at a consensus that the height limit for Downtown would be 14 stories...

The Town Center Village Board has concerns about the appropriateness of naming a specific private entity in the county's General Plan...



2 comments:

Chris Bachmann said...

Um... I'm a Vantage Point resident and while I agree with wanting a voice in this process, I think that we need to make a strong town center for a variety of reasons. the 14 story limit seems, well, limiting. But I'd say that my concerns differ from theirs in many respects.

Anonymous said...

I was in Annapolis Whole Foods a few weeks ago. The parking was underground. What a wonderful idea!