Tuesday, December 17, 2013

A win for the community living by Blandair Park!

Did we stop more crazyness going into the park?  I think so!  The county finally did something for its residents! 

Meeting Update: December 17, 2013 the county has decided to stop plans to add an enterance off of Timesweep Road. This was a community fight for the last 6 years! The residents surged saying that we have had eneough! 

There must have been over 20 meetings that addressed or mentioned this issue.  A long fight and the neighbors have had eneough.  More issues to address, but this is huge!

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Blandair Park Phase 3

There is a meeting about Blandair Park for Phase 3 on Tuesday December 17, 2013 at Tablott springs Elementry School at 7:00PM.  The communities of Emerson Hill and Cimnnamon Tree are opposed to the entrance off of Timesweep and now the county is trying to jam it through. The county told the communities they would not build the entrance unless we wanted it, but are now trying to jam it through any ways.  We already have enough noise and problems back there.  Show up to the meeting and tell them to honor their words.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Traffic Problems

Who is running Blandair Park on the weekends.  A huge crowd of football players, parking lots spilling over into the community and no HOCO recs and parks people to be seen!  Recs and parks could have taken down the chain so people could park in the field instead of getting ticketed but they have to show up to work first.  Poor planning and something so simple to fix.  Recs and parks is messing up.

Wednesday, July 17, 2013

ANOTHER BLANDAIR PARK MEETING

There is another Blandair Park meeting at The Other Barn July 23, 2013 at 7:30.  Recs and Parks will go befor the Oakland Mills Board to explain the things they have done.  Which from what it appears is a ploy to appear they have done something to stop the noise and mess, when little has actually been done to solve the problem.  Planting trees?  Will that stop amplified noise?  Moving the speakers around?  Will that stop the amplified noise?  How about turning it off?  See you at the meeting. 

Sunday, July 7, 2013

LIGHT EM UP

So I was walking through Dicks Sporting Goods yesterday and to my suprise I see a shirt "Light Em Up!  Oakland Mills Scorpians!"  It has a whole bunch of stadium lights on it!  Is this Recs and parks new T-shirt?  For those who do not know Recs and Parks is taking over Oakland Mills HS fields as well!  This means more lights, noise and traffic every day all day long.  We will now have an onslaught of noise and lights from both sides!  Of course people complained about the lights and noise so the HS fields will only be on until 10:15PM.  How about the same for Blandair Park?  Lights out at 10:00PM instead of 11 something PM!  What do you think about that?  

Tuesday, May 28, 2013

GUN FIGHT AT BLANDAIR PARK

My kids were playing in the back yard on Memorial Day when they came running into the house shouting that someone was shooting a gun.  Several kids then appear through the trees from Blandair Park with airsoft machine guns and 9mm airsoft pistols.  Knowing that they are probably just shooting plastic bullets I grabbed my camera to record the chaos.  Of course there was no park ranger to be found as plastic BBs rain through the park and into neighbors back yards.  I have several pics but here is a good one as I take cover behind a deck fence as a kid raises his 9mm airsoft pistol as if to cap someone.  Just another crazy day at the park!

Monday, May 20, 2013

INVASION OF OUR BACK YARDS

So after Howard County Recs and Parks removed about half of the trees and buffer behind or house it is some 3 weeks later and no new trees have been planted.  Now because of the large paths they cut into our back yards here is what we have to look forward to every day!  Stop the invasion.  Fix this mess HOCO RECS AND PARKS!

FIX THIS MESS AS IT GOES ON ALL DAY!

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Digging for gold at Blandair!

Do you think these holes dug all over the park are safe?  It appears that the contractor is replacing a lot of trees that died.  They left the holes like this all weekend.  Many we're filled with water because of the rain.  I even saw a kid down in one.  Maby they have a new theme "Come to Blandair Park and Break a leg!  Check out the picture!
NOT WORM HOLES

Monday, May 6, 2013

HOCO REMOVES THE TREES

On Friday I returned home from work to find about half of the wooded buffer behind my house removed.  This is not what I was expecting in the landscape plan, but understand that some of the trees were dead or in bad shape.  Now I have a very open view of Blandair Park.  At least the dead trees were covered with vines and blocked some of the light and noise.  The county needs to plant a lot of trees as a few 8 foot tall trees will not cut it.  So far I am not impressed, but will wait and see what they do.  They have a lot of work to do.  No amount of trees will block all the amplified noise though and even when the trees are planted it will take 10 years or more to fill in to actually be a little effective.  What a mess.     

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

So we had a big community meeting a few days ago with Recs and Parks.  They came out to the community and placed flags of where they wanted to plant trees.  We had them pull up some because they were to close to our house and they moved them back.  Recs and Parks returns a few days later and put the flags back!  Are you kidding me!  My concern is that as trees are planted closer and closer to the houses our sight lines are decreased and it will invite more crime.  There is already a lot of crime.  We asked that trees be planted closer to the fields, but it appears at least for now that they are not doing that as no flags were placed.  Crazy thing is an additional tree or two behind each house will not stop the people from defecating and peeing in out back yards.  50 trees would not help with the amplified noise issue.  Maybe in 20 years it will be blocking the light, so we are in a wait and see with the landscape plan.  The landscape plan I fear will not solve much. 
 

Now the county has put up a sign as if to blame the fans for the noise.  Its not the fans that we are complaining about.  Its the AMPLIFIED AIRHORNS AND PA SYSTEMS!  The county is  are trying to shift the main issue and blame others. 

 


SO NOW HOWARD COUNTY RECS AND PARKS IS TRYING TO MUUFFLE THE NOISE.  HOW ABOUT JUST GET RID OF IT.  AIR HORNS HAVE NO PLACE NEXT TO HOUSES.  HORNS GOING OFF FOR UP TO15 HOURS A DAY IS NOT ACCEPTABLE!

SOUND PROOF: TIRED OF THE LIES

When your local government is not even honest with you it is time to stand up for the truth.

WE LIVE UNDER A LOCAL GOVERNMENT THAT IS INVADING OUR HOMES WITH AMPLIFIED SOUND

PROOF THAT WE WERE MISLED
HERE IS PROOF THAT THE COUNTY MISLED THE PUBLIC ABOUT AMPLIFIED NOISE AND NEVER MENTIONED THIS IN ANY OF THE PLANNING MEETINGS LEADING UP TO THE PARK BEING BUILT.  THE QUOTE BELOW IS FROM THE RECREATION AND PARKS ADVISORY BOARD MEETING MINUTES ON FEBRUARY 19, 2013.   JOHN BYRD THE HEAD OR RECS AND PARKS IS REFERENCED BELOW:
PAGE 3:  "Mr. Byrd stated that some of the neighbors felt that there was a bait and switch situation, and they were never told that there would be amplified sound.  Had they known, they would have never agreed to the Park.  Mr. Byrd continued that he had gone back through the minutes of the planning committee and there was nothing specific mentioned about amplified sound." 

STOP THE NOISE

ATTENTION HOWARD COUNTY RECREATION AND PARKS, JOHN BYRD, CALVIN BALL, KEN ULMAN, AND OTHER HOWARD COUNTY OFFICIALS.  ALL WE ARE ASKING FOR IS A LITTLE PIECE AND QUIET FOR THE NEIGHBORS LIVING AROUND BLANDAIR PARK.
OUR REQUESTS ARE REASONABLE:
1.  REMOVE THE AMPLIFIED NOISE TO INCLUDE THE AIR HORNS AND PA SYSTEM.
2.  TURN OFF THE LIGHTS AT 10:00 PM.
3.  ADDRESS THE CRIME AROUND BLANDAIR PARK.  PART TIME PARK RANGERS DO NOT CUT IT!