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.

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. 

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?  

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!

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!

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

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.