Transforming Lexington Park?
About 120 people turned out Wednesday evening to hear a new set of planning consultants tell them some old things about Lexington Park … and then we all went home.
A Friendly Reminder: Park Planning Kickoff Wednesday Night!
YOU can help us plan the FUTURE development of the Lexington Park Development District!
The Roof (and Everything Else) Is on Fire
Bay District Volunteer Fire Department performs a controlled burn of a building near Lexington Park Ford on Great Mills Road on Sunday, May 22, 2011 to make way for a planned expansion of the dealership.
Park Association Needs Your Ideas Tonight
Anyone interested in the betterment of Lexington Park is encouraged to attend.
Uncle Sam Needs You for the Park Master Plan Update
What happens in the Lexington Park Development District affects all of us! All opinions are welcome!
Starting to ‘Get’ FDR Boulevard
Twenty-five years ago, when fields of weeds lined most of one side of Route 235 and stately homes lined the other, I didn’t get the need for FDR Boulevard.
Where Does All the Garbage Go?
Wherever the new zoning plan decides, it needs to include a trash station.
“Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”
So wrote Robert Frost of his New England neighbor and their spring ritual to walk and repair the stone wall separating their properties. “To each the boulders that have fallen to each,” he wrote: We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, “Good fences make…
Disneyland, Disney-Air and Disney-Sea
A couple folks are saying what Lexington Park needs is “a driver.” By this they mean something as big as Disneyland. Well, not necessarily that big, but big enough and snazzy and jazzy enough to get people to Lexington Park, stop there and spend money. Hmmmmm. How much bigger does a driver have to be than the Patuxent River Naval Air Station? Could a single community actually host two such extravagant tenants? Pax River NAS already pumps as much as $6.6 billion into Maryland’s economy (so say a bevy of Navy boosters) and drives 80 percent of the local economy….
