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    Around Germantown
    Around Germantown
    Around Germantown
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    Around Germantown

    By Margaret Coleman

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    Germantown is a new city. Until 1980, Germantown was a quiet, rural community of farms and cows with a few new houses built for employees of the Atomic Energy Commission. When the Maryland Nation Capital Park and Planning Commission adopted the area, everything changed.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateAug 25, 2008
    ISBN9781439619728
    Around Germantown
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    Margaret Coleman

    Margaret Coleman has lived in the area since 1968. This West Coast native was amazed at the history around Germantown and wrote this book to record the past and to honor the planners of Germantown today.

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      Around Germantown - Margaret Coleman

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      INTRODUCTION

      Every day is Christmas in Germantown, Maryland. Springing like Germelshausen from a small, rural village 20 years ago, Germantown today, were it incorporated, would be the second largest city in Maryland with a 2003 population of 85,000 and a 2008 estimate of 90,000.

      Germantown is an exciting place to be. There is a multimillion-dollar library, a multimillion-dollar art center, a multimillion-dollar government center, and, on the outer cusp of the northern boundary, a multimillion-dollar jail. There is a regional shopping center and several smaller shopping areas. In the Town Center, wide streets are lined with pretty flowers, lovely street trees, affordable housing, and elegant townhouses. Most commercial buildings have matching facades, lending an aura of pleasing accord.

      All the schools but one school are new. There are 12 elementary schools, 4 middle schools, 2 high schools, one special school, and a two-year college. Germantown has small shops, big-box stores, fine grocery stores, a police station, a fire station with a second one nearing completion, a tourist bureau, a 3,000-acre regional park, regional soccer fields and an aquatic center, senior housing, and two medical centers. County maintenance crews are seen constantly, keeping Germantown squeaky clean.

      Newness fills the air, and each morning brings a new shop, new neighbors, a new school, a new set of townhouses.

      In 1974, Germantown was a farming community of 2,000 in a county where growth is a Ping-Pong ball, bounced from one politician to the next. It’s up, it’s down, it’s good, it’s bad, it’s out, it’s in, but growth is always there, an established game in the county next door to the nation’s capital.

      Seeds of the new Germantown were sown in 1964 when the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission (M-NCPPC) adopted the General Plan for Orderly Development in the Maryland suburbs of Washington, D.C. The plan, called On Wedges and Corridors, featured corridor cities radiating outward from the capital along major highways. Wedges of lower density lay within the corridors, preserving agriculture and open space.

      Major development would adhere to the corridors and not sprawl into the wedges. Employment centers would cluster on either side of the highways. Shopping facilities and high-density housing would be built near this nucleus, and development would lessen to low density at the edge of the cities.

      As I-270 and the headquarters of the Atomic Energy Commission were already in place, Germantown, Planning Area 19, was the natural choice for the first Montgomery County planned city. Looking toward Columbia, Maryland, and Reston, Virginia, a single contractor would construct everything, thus ensuring sympathetic correlation and an ongoing interest in the new city’s success. Not all these dreams came true.

      For 10 years, the professional planners at M-NCPPC studied the area, sketched plans, worked hard, and finally presented a comprehensive master plan for the orderly development of

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