Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Monday, June 15, 2015
Blandair Park Phase 2 Coming soon!
They have now cleared a large patch of forest and a field and plan to close Oakland Mills road soon. I am not to excited about the closing of Oakland Mills Road, but the bend in the road is dangerous and it should be fixed. A bunch of trucks are moving piles of earth and the animals are fleeing in a panic! The neighbors are about to get more lights and noise from 2 baseball fields and a bunch of tennis courts. The county messed up phase 1, hopefully they do phase 2 better. Like phase 1 we will have to see phase 2 built before we really know what we will get. Who knows what they have not disclosed in meetings. They never mentioned AIR HORNS in the phase 1 meeting and we get blasted with three fields often. StOp ThE ChAoS!!!!
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Breaking Ground on Phase 2 of Blandair! More chaos, crime and problems expected!
At the Blandair Park meeting last night Howard county Recs and parks explained that they will be breaking ground in the next few weeks! There will be two additional baseball fields added, more parking, another bathroom, and another playground. The main focus though was on the new road and entrance off on 175. Recs and parks had the road engineer talk about the road instead of the park for more than half of the meeting. A great political move to avoid the hard questions about the park. Of course we still got to ask our questions.
The first one was:
1. Would there be enough parking for those out of control tournaments like the Maryland Superbowl Tournaments now that the parking would be taken away because of phase 2. (They used most of the field to park cars during these tournaments that will be developed in phase 2, hence little parking will be left for big events) : Raul answered the question very poorly. He had no estimate of how many cars were parked at peak times of the tournaments. He then said people could park a quarter of a mile away at Oakland Mills HS, but I reminded that the tournaments played there as well so that was not a solution. He failed to answer the question but did say that the biggest tournaments would not be at Blandair next year during construction. Our position: Get rid of huge out of control tournaments that are to noisy and wild. This would also stop hordes of people spilling into our back yards and parking up and down our neighborhood.
2. Will phase two have PA systems and Air horns. Yes they will have PA systems. Our position: Get rid of all air horns and PA systems. Screaming Fans and whistles are enough.
3. Do you guys think you are good neighbors? Raul got mad and claimed that they inform the community of big events. News flash you are informing your neighbors that the weekend will be chaos from Friday night to 11:00PM and Saturday from 7:00AM to 11:00 PM and again on Sunday! We now inform you to bend over and take it! Ha! Thanks Recs and Parks!
More chaos is coming in phase 2: Booming PA systems, thousands of people, people urinating and drinking in our back yards, hundreds of people cutting through my back yard and parking up and down my neighborhood with severely increased crime on the residents surrounding the park. Prepare for a mess. They got phase 1 wrong and it looks like they will with phase 2 as well.
Love the park, hate the poor planning and chaos coming out of it. They can do better!
WE EXPECT YOU TO BE BETTER NEIGHBORS!
The first one was:
1. Would there be enough parking for those out of control tournaments like the Maryland Superbowl Tournaments now that the parking would be taken away because of phase 2. (They used most of the field to park cars during these tournaments that will be developed in phase 2, hence little parking will be left for big events) : Raul answered the question very poorly. He had no estimate of how many cars were parked at peak times of the tournaments. He then said people could park a quarter of a mile away at Oakland Mills HS, but I reminded that the tournaments played there as well so that was not a solution. He failed to answer the question but did say that the biggest tournaments would not be at Blandair next year during construction. Our position: Get rid of huge out of control tournaments that are to noisy and wild. This would also stop hordes of people spilling into our back yards and parking up and down our neighborhood.
2. Will phase two have PA systems and Air horns. Yes they will have PA systems. Our position: Get rid of all air horns and PA systems. Screaming Fans and whistles are enough.
3. Do you guys think you are good neighbors? Raul got mad and claimed that they inform the community of big events. News flash you are informing your neighbors that the weekend will be chaos from Friday night to 11:00PM and Saturday from 7:00AM to 11:00 PM and again on Sunday! We now inform you to bend over and take it! Ha! Thanks Recs and Parks!
More chaos is coming in phase 2: Booming PA systems, thousands of people, people urinating and drinking in our back yards, hundreds of people cutting through my back yard and parking up and down my neighborhood with severely increased crime on the residents surrounding the park. Prepare for a mess. They got phase 1 wrong and it looks like they will with phase 2 as well.
Love the park, hate the poor planning and chaos coming out of it. They can do better!
WE EXPECT YOU TO BE BETTER NEIGHBORS!
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Maryland Mini Super Bowl Madness at Blandair Park
HEY! HOWARD COUNTY RECS AND PARKS: BLANDAIR PARK IS OUT OF CONTROL:
So the Superbowl has returned to Blandair Park! More noise, more traffic, to many people and more chaos this whole weekend! The neighbors living around the park are being interrupted from morning to late at night. The have their most busiest event every year when all the leaves are off the trees making it even worse! The neighbors can hear the PA systems and yelling crowds in their homes and the lights shine upon their homes until late at night! The also have a 10 minute wait to drive down their road to get to their house with so many people trying to get in the park. In fact the park is so full that there are hundreds of cars are piled in a field at Blandair Park. Don't forget that Oakland Mills Highschool is also adding to this chaos as games are being held there as well. We are surrounded by noise and chaos. Residents here have had enough!Tuesday, June 24, 2014
Phase 2 Blandair Park
Phase Two of Blandair Park should start soon but many questions remain. It is almost like they have to build it first to see what we get. After looking at the phase II map I wonder why there are going to be 5 tennis courts? I know that the county sold the Tennis courts in many meetings about how Oakland Mills High School could use the fields but they are now on the far side of the park. What high school program is going to walk that far away? Not many I bet. The neighbors asked to have some basketball courts put in, but we get tennis instead. How about some mixed use and put a few basket ball hoops up as well?
I am impressed to see that a bearm is mentioned for the neighbors so that noise and sound will be blocked. Then again the other side of the park never got a bearm, just a few planted trees. I guess that the phase two side gets a bearm and the other side in phase one gets the shaft! The phase 2 map also talks about a concession area. I am not sure what that means? Will there be a little cafe in the park now? I also wonder if they are going to get rid of the gross porta potties at Blandair? They said over a year ago that they would remain, but why pay to maintain them if you build another set of bathrooms? How about building it big enough to suit the park and get rid of those stinky things?
We were also told that there would not be any additional PA systems added in the new phase. Thats good because 3 fields with air horns and PA systems is enough after they add 100 plus more screaming fans with phase two baseball fields my bet s that it will only get louder. Like I said though do not believe the map as it may look good on paper, they will have to build it to see what we really get. Hopefully they get phase two right because they were way wrong on phase one!
You can see the phase 2 map here
http://www.howardcountymd.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=6442475124
I am impressed to see that a bearm is mentioned for the neighbors so that noise and sound will be blocked. Then again the other side of the park never got a bearm, just a few planted trees. I guess that the phase two side gets a bearm and the other side in phase one gets the shaft! The phase 2 map also talks about a concession area. I am not sure what that means? Will there be a little cafe in the park now? I also wonder if they are going to get rid of the gross porta potties at Blandair? They said over a year ago that they would remain, but why pay to maintain them if you build another set of bathrooms? How about building it big enough to suit the park and get rid of those stinky things?
We were also told that there would not be any additional PA systems added in the new phase. Thats good because 3 fields with air horns and PA systems is enough after they add 100 plus more screaming fans with phase two baseball fields my bet s that it will only get louder. Like I said though do not believe the map as it may look good on paper, they will have to build it to see what we really get. Hopefully they get phase two right because they were way wrong on phase one!
You can see the phase 2 map here
http://www.howardcountymd.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=6442475124
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Time to relocate Maryland Superbowl out of Blandar Park
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Phase 2 Phase 3 Blandair Park
Phase two and three of Blandair park needs to be done with some more class and concern for the community. The neighbors around the park still get constant blasts from air horns and the PA system. People from the park are coming through their yards at all hours of the day and night. The noise is already out of control. At times the parking is horrible spilling into the neighborhoods. We hope the county gets this fixed and improved on in the next few phases. The community is still waiting for more trees to help absorb some of the noise and lights. Of course it will take ten years before they are big enough to do much good! More baseball fields, lights, traffic, and noise coming soon! Oh and do not stand down wind of the dog park that's coming soon. Love the park hate the chaos! Get rid of Air horns and the PA system as a start. Good neighbors do not use air horns!
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