November 8th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Historic District, Old Town
One of the most important policies relating to the future of downtown College Park continues to make its way through a convoluted approval process that involves more lawyers than College Park Residents.
When it is implemented, the Old Town Historic District will require property owners within the designated area (shown on a map here) to apply [...]
October 18th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in East Campus, Environment, Old Town, Transportation
The East Campus Community Review Steering Committee has been meeting since August to hear from the developers and their consultants about a wide variety of issues surrounding the project. We have encouraged our readers to attend these meetings (and many have) and I am an official committee member of this committee. The meetings are preceded [...]
April 5th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Historic District, Housing, Old Town
With College Park’s Old Town Historic District nearing final approval with county officials, the first public controversy regarding a property in the district has emerged.
We had previously reported that the Old Town Historic District faced an additional hearing with the Prince George’s County Zoning Hearing Examiner’s (ZHE) Office. In response to complaints from some landlords [...]
March 29th, 2007 | by Sam Snellings | published in Downtown, Old Town, Transportation
The University of Maryland’s Department of Public Safety has recently established the ‘preferred’ route from the University of Maryland Campus to the College Park Metro stop through a partnership between the University of Maryland and the City of College Park. This route has been given increased lighting, additional emergency phones and landscaping improvements in [...]
February 28th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Downtown, East Campus, General College Park, Old Town
As anyone familiar with College Park’s neighborhoods knows, in some neighborhoods officials gone to great lengths to limit traffic on residential streets. Although most were developed with interconnected, gridiron street networks, over the years many streets have been cut off totally or made one way.
The result is what one local resident calls a “traffic labyrinth” [...]
January 26th, 2007 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Downtown, East Campus, General College Park, Old Town
Although it has taken a bit longer than we expected, we finally completed locating and uploading digital copies of many of the plans and drawings produced during the 2006 SGA College Park Charrette. We have created a library page for the event spearheaded by former SGA president Andrew Rose and containing a presentation he created [...]
October 5th, 2006 | by Rob Goodspeed | published in Downtown, Historic District, Old Town
A proposed Old Town College Park Historic District could prevent or slow new, pedestrian-scale development connecting the campus and downtown to the Metro station. The proposed district includes structures on both sides of Calvert Road, a street several groups from last spring’s design charrette targeted for dense development to create a pedestrian corridor running from [...]
