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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Lake Linganore.  Used to be a great community.  What were forests, hiking trails and vast green spaces are now being bulldozed by Ryan Homes.  Linganore, like a lot of Frederick, is changing- for the worse.[/quote]

I just bought one of those Ryan homes. In every neighborhood, there are always the "oh-so-wise, old-timers" who lament every time there is a new development and someone else invading their space. There are still plenty of green spaces in the area. There were no trails where Ryan is building. Furthermore, they are bringing in amenities that you never had before.  [/quote]

The "oh-so-wise old timers" about whom you disparage have a much deeper history, perspective, and appreciation for the area, and remember it long before your cheap overpriced shack was thrown up on cleared forest land, and before you drove up 270 in your SUV. Furthermore, not everyone wants the "amenities" (e.g., more chain stores, more gas stations, 
more signalized intersections, and more pavement) that come with these so-called "new communities."[/quote]

If you want to get specific, Linganore Hamptons and Woodbridge neighborhoods bulldozed 100s of acres of what were beautiful green space.  I am not anti-development, but the Ryan brand of development is gross.  Lake Linganore used to be a neighborhood that sought to blend in with the natural environment.  New development just bulldozed everything and uses nature and green spaces in its marketing materials.[/quote]

That is such a load of crap.  Before buying from Ryan I looked at other non-Ryan homes on the lake.  There are 30, 40 year old homes that are super close together with no rhyme or reason (off of Boyers Mill for example).  You just love to hate developers and newcomers.  [/quote]

You are wrong.  Compare Coldstream, Balmoral, and Meadows to the new section of Woodbridge and Hamptons.  The former has roads that go up and down hills, and curve around the terrain.  The new neighborhoods clear cut it all and level the landscape.  This makes it easier and cheaper for Ryan Homes to jam as many new homes as they can.  Also, where the Hamptons are, used to be a vast network of trails that my neighbors and I hiked, walked, and mountain biked daily.  It was also habitat for deer, fox, birds and lots of other wildlife.  Gone is the wildlife and now we get filthy runoff into Lake Merhle.  My kids used to catch fish there.  Now it’s too polluted to sustain life.[/quote]

The association is doing extensive dredging on Merle.  We get reports on the lakes that are part of the association and no, they are not terribly polluted. Either you are very uninformed or just trying to make a point that doesn't exist.  You are welcome to look at the testing that the association conduct on their site. People have to live somewhere.  For a single mom like myself, I couldn't afford anything closer to DC that has school as good as they are in New Market.  Your main complaint seems to be that the roads don't wind around. I find that telling and absurd.  Being this hostile towards your new neighbors is not something I expected when I moved up here. [/quote]

“Uninformed?”  Ther is no dredging on Lake Merhle.  Dredging is on Lake Linganore.  The dredging is needed due to years of over development.  When forests are bulldozed, no ground cover to catch sediment.

I am not hostile to newcomers.  My disdain is for developers and the crooked politicians who approved all this development.  [/quote]

OK I got Merle in Linganore confused for a second. Either way, this agreement was reached in 2014 with the county which means the sediment problem started long before that.  I'm not sure how you can blame just new development for that, but ok. [/quote]

I said “years” of overdevelopment.  This implies it’s been going on for sometime and not just recently.  Though the mess flowing into Sewer Merhle, err Lake Merhle, is recent, and due to Hamptons development.  Please don’t let this info trouble you.  I wouldn’t want to spoil the narrative that Ryan Homes sold you- ample green space, uncrowned schools, pristine lakes...etc.[/quote]

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