Since April 2003, when The Rouse Company submitted a petition for a Preliminary Development Plan amendment to the Howard County Department of Planning and Zoning for the area adjacent to Merriweather Post Pavilion known as the Crescent, the community has been fully engaged in a dialogue and process to create a vision for the future of downtown Columbia. Almost 100 meetings held during the ensuing years are evidence of how deeply committed and engaged the community has been in this process. The public meetings relative to downtown Columbia’s future have been numerous and the community interest has been strong. Below is a list of meetings that has involved GGP’s participation or attendance for downtown Columbia.
| February 1, 2010 |
County Council Legislative Session. |
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| January 26, 2010 |
Greg Hamm met with the Oakland Mills Village Board. |
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| January 25, 2010 |
County Council Work Session. |
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| January 10, 2010 |
County Council public testimony. |
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| January 4, 2010 |
County Council public testimony. |
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| January 4, 2010 |
County Council Work Session. |
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| December 21, 2009 |
County Council Work Session. |
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| December 15, 2009 |
County Council Work Session. |
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| December 8, 2009 |
County Council Work Session. |
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| December 7, 2009 |
County Council Work Session. |
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| December 2, 2009 |
County Council Work Session. |
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| November 30, 2009 |
County Council Work Session. |
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| November 23, 2009 |
County Council Work Session. |
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| November 18, 2009 |
County Council public testimony. |
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| November 16, 2009 |
County Council public testimony. |
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| November 14, 2009 |
County Council public testimony. |
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| November 4, 2009 |
GGP sponsors Young Professional Network mixer. GGP team presented downtown Columbia display. |
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| November 2, 2009 |
Introduction of CB 58 and CB 59. |
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| October 13, 2009 |
GGP Presentation to County Council. |
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| September 17, 2009 |
Planning Board Recommendation Meeting. |
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| September 3, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| September 2, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| August 20, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| July 23, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| July 9, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| June 25, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| June 11, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| May 28, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| May 14, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| April 30, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| April 28, 2009 |
Greg Hamm met with the Watermark Place Homeowners’ Association. |
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| April 15, 2009 |
Greg Hamm gave a presentation to the Howard County Library Board. |
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| April 13, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| April 8, 2009 |
GGP team member gave a presentation to the Columbia Town Center Rotary Club. |
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| April 4, 2009 |
Planning Board Work Session. |
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| March 19, 2009 |
Planning Board Hearing and Work Session |
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| March 12, 2009 |
GGP team member gave a presentation to the Columbia Patuxent Rotary Club. |
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| March 5, 2009 |
Planning Board Hearing on ZRA 113—public testimony |
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| February 19, 2009 |
Greg Hamm gave a presentation to the Howard County Millionaire Real Estate Club. |
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| February 17, 2009 |
GGP team member gave a presentation to the Clarksville Rotary Club. |
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| February 5, 2009 |
Planning Board Hearing on ZRA 113—public testimony |
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| January 22, 2009 |
Planning Board Hearing on ZRA 113 continues. |
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| January 8, 2009 |
Planning Board Hearing on ZRA 113—GGP team presentation. |
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| December 11, 2008 |
Planning Board Hearing on ZRA 113—the Department of Planning and Zoning presentation. |
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| November 20, 2008 |
GGP team members gave the first of three presentations to students at Howard Community College. |
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November 11, 2008-
January 6, 2009 |
Beginning with the Oakland Mills Village Board, the GGP team discussed the submission and process with all 10 of the Village Boards. |
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| November 11, 2008 |
Greg Hamm conducted a question and answer session for the Chamber of Commerce Business Alliance. |
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| October 30, 2008 |
“Bring Back the Vision” invited Greg Hamm to provide an update on the submission process. A question and answer session followed. |
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| October 22, 2008 |
Greg Hamm returned to the Town Center Village Board to respond to specific questions relative to the General Plan Amendment submission. |
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| October 1, 2008 |
At a Columbia Association Board Meeting, Greg Hamm and GGP’s consultants presented specific
issues pertaining to the General Plan Amendment that had been submitted to the County the same day. |
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| September 24, 2008 |
League of Women Voters meeting. Greg Hamm presented elements of the draft master plan. A question and answer session followed. |
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| April 2, 2008 |
An Evening with Keith Bowers. Mr. Bowers is founder and president of Biohabitats, an ecological
restoration/design consultancy. |
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| September 16, 2008 |
Miles & Stockbridge Attorney’s meeting. Greg Hamm presented elements of the draft master plan. |
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| September 10, 2008 |
Howard County Homebuilders meeting. Greg Hamm presented elements of the draft master plan. |
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| August 27, 2008 |
Howard County Commission on Disabilities. Greg Hamm presented elements of the draft master plan. |
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| August 19, 2008 |
Voices for Change (V4C) meeting. Greg Hamm presented elements of the draft master plan. |
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| July 16, 2008 |
The opening of Vision in View: Columbia Town Center, an exhibit featuring the downtown Columbia draft master plan. The display was open to the public for eight days. |
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| July 9, 2008 |
Vision in Focus: The Neighborhoods, featuring Alan Ward of Sasaki and Associates and Keith Bowers of Biohabitats. This was the fourth in a series of meetings that followed the initial presentation of the draft master plan for downtown Columbia. |
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| June 11, 2008 |
GGP sponsored the Young Professionals Symposium and displayed elements of the draft master plan. |
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| May 13, 2008 |
Marty Wells of Wells & Associates met with the Transportation Advocates group. |
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| May 12, 2008 |
Members of the GGP team met with residents of the Village of River Hill to gather comments and ideas about the draft master plan. During the following two weeks, similar meeting were held in each of the other nine villages. |
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| May 8, 2008 |
Vision in Focus: Culture, featuring Gail Dexter Lord of Lord Cultural Resources |
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| May 7, 2008 |
Vision in Focus: Traffic/Transit, featuring Marty Wells of Wells & Associates as well as Matt McGibbon of ARUP. |
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| May 6, 2008 |
Vision in Focus: Environment, featuring Keith Bowers of Biohabitats, was the first of four presentations hosted by GGP to present specific elements of the draft master plan. |
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| April 28, 2008 |
Many Voices: One Vision. GGP presented the draft master plan for downtown Columbia. |
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| April 9, 2008 |
An Evening with Jaque Robertson. Mr. Robertson is the founding partner of the architecture and urban
design firm of Cooper, Robertson & Partners. |
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| April 3, 2008 |
GGP and the Columbia Association Board of Directors met to discuss common issues relative to
downtown Columbia, current and future. |
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| March 19, 2008 |
An Evening with Gail Dexter Lord. Ms. Lord is president of Lord Cultural Resources, the world’s
largest cultural planning firm. |
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| March 5, 2008 |
An Evening with Alan Ward. GGP hosted the first of four presentations to introduce the world-class consultants involved in the master-planning process. Mr. Ward is a principal with Sasaki & Associates, a landscape architecture firm. |
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| February 13, 2008 |
Greg Hamm attended the Town Center Village Board meeting to introduce himself and to discuss the process for creating a master plan for downtown Columbia. In the months following, he met with the remaining nine Village Boards individually. |
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| January 24, 2008 |
Greg Hamm was invited to meet with the Board of Directors of the Columbia Association. |
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| January 8, 2008 |
GGP’s Greg Hamm and the Transportation Advocates met to discuss the master plan’s impact on traffic and transportation in downtown Columbia. |
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| November 11, 2007 |
The first of four presentations by GGP to community groups was held at Oakland Manor. |
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| October 25, 2007 |
Highlights of the County’s ‘Downtown Columbia: A Community Vision’ draft framework document. |
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| October 20, 2007 |
Members of the Department of Planning and Zoning staff met with the Columbia Association Board of Directors and the Village Boards of Directors to review the County’s ‘Downtown Columbia: A Community Vision’ draft framework document. |
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| October 11, 2007 |
Howard County’s Department of Planning and Zoning held a public meeting to present the results of the traffic assessment that it commissioned. |
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| October 10, 2007 |
Howard County’s Department of Planning and Zoning presented results of its ‘Downtown Columbia: A
Community Vision’ draft framework document. |
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| January 11, 2007 |
Adam Lerner spoke about the importance of a cultural community center with public art and art spaces as the final Voices of Vision presentation. |
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| December 14, 2006 |
Dr. Robert Burchell, the third Voices of Vision presenter, spoke on land-use development and regulation, and housing policies. |
| November 16, 2006 |
The second Voices of Vision presentation featured Professor Ann Forsyth, an expert on the social aspects of planning and urban design. |
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| October 19, 2006 |
GGP and Howard Community College jointly hosted the first of four Voices of Vision presentations, open forums on topics relevant to downtown Columbia’s vision for its future. Urban planner and author Vernon Swaback spoke on the importance of urban planning and its impact on quality of life. |
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| February 27, 2006 |
Howard County Department of Planning and Zoning hosted a public meeting to present a preliminary master plan that resulted from the October 2005 week-long Charrette. |
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December 14, 2005-
September 26, 2006 |
Howard County Department of Planning and Zoning held 14 meetings with community leaders to discuss the major components for a master plan. These were called “Focus Group” meetings. |
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| October 15-22, 2005 |
Howard County Department of Planning and Zoning conducted a week-long Charrette, which included the community in the planning process for a new master plan for downtown Columbia. |
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| June 26, 2005 |
GGP hosted its second Town Hall Meeting to continue the presentation of the draft master plan. |
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| May 18, 2005 |
GGP held its first public Town Hall Meeting to introduce a draft master plan. |
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