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Old 03-21-2011, 11:58 AM
 
Location: Cumberland
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Yeah, that is what happened. The developers were out in full force though drooling over the possibilities at the meeting. To sum up this whole situation, it's important to realize Montgomery County for the past 100 years has always planned to have very dense urban cities up the middle of the county adopting the hub and spoke plan of Metro for the entire region. That is also why the CCT light rail project (corridor cities transit way) was planned in the 1970's for the county. That project is finally about to get built much like the planned ICC from 1960.

The growth in Montgomery County because of zoning laws is up the middle of the county. People who want to live a suburban lifestyle have 75% of the county to do so. East and West of the corridor cites offer suburban lives. This is how Montgomery County planned it anyway. I believe people who want to live a suburban lifestyle will move further east and west over the years.
I have a hard time imagining that Montgomery County was "planning" for expansive growth back in 1911 when the county was nothing but fields and cowtowns.

Heck the population of all of Montgomery County in 1910 was just 32k, barely more than 1/2 of the population of Allegany County. The city of Cumberland itself had a population 2/3 that of the all of Montgomery County in 1910. Montgomery County didn't start growing substantially until 1930 and didn't boom until after WWII.

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Old 03-21-2011, 02:00 PM
 
Location: Washington D.C.
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I have a hard time imagining that Montgomery County was "planning" for expansive growth back in 1911 when the county was nothing but fields and cowtowns.

Heck the population of all of Montgomery County in 1910 was just 32k, barely more than 1/2 of the population of Allegany County. The city of Cumberland itself had a population 2/3 that of the all of Montgomery County in 1910. Montgomery County didn't start growing substantially until 1930 and didn't boom until after WWII.

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My mistake, you're right about my time table. But you get the point though.

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Old 03-22-2011, 05:28 PM
 
Location: Cumberland
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The point is well made. I think it is remarkable that there are still a few old-timers out there that remember the old Montgomery County in the Pre-WWII years. The county has basically completely reinvented and populated itself up to nearly 1,000,000 people in that short a time frame.
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Old 03-22-2011, 08:58 PM
 
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^ Then we'll all have get use to driving in parking lot traffic....all the time...
I don't hear no one complaining in Fairfax County, Loudon County, and Prince William County.......
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Old 03-22-2011, 09:00 PM
 
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The point is well made. I think it is remarkable that there are still a few old-timers out there that remember the old Montgomery County in the Pre-WWII years. The county has basically completely reinvented and populated itself up to nearly 1,000,000 people in that short a time frame.
Fairfax County, VA at one time was smaller than Montgomery County, MD in Population and now Fairfax County, VA is well over 1 Million in Population........
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