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MARY’S • PG • CALVERT (301) 932-7700 (301) 870-7111 Thursday, February 6, 2020 The Calvert County Times Local News 3 Prince Frederick Town Center Update Begins Large Crowd Attends First Workshop By Dick Myers Hutchins responded to Gowans the assurance that areas of the town center on both sides of what will Editor citizen comments would be heard. Hutchins and soon be a six-lane Routes 2/4 bisecting it. Cook were criticized in a letter published before the “They have to be able to cross Route 4 some- “One key thing about Prince Frederick as a town meeting and which appears elsewhere in this week’s how,” one man said, noting there is no pedestrian center and the county seat, it impacts everybody. issue. interconnectivity. You’re either driving through it, live here or you’re A short time larer at the meeting, Cook attempted He noted that for people who have lived in the area coming to it.” Calvert County Long-Range Planner to silence a speaker who was expressing concerns for a while, the real town center is the old town along Jenny Plummer-Welker made that observation after about groundwater contamination. Main Street. asking the approximately 150 people attending the During her opening remarks, Plummer-Welker A woman said, “A true town center is walkable.” kick-off session for the revision of the Prince Freder- said, “The county started doing comprehensive plan- She added, “Bring us all together!” ick Town Center Master Plan where they were from. ning in the late 1960s. There was a lot of growth Plummer-Welker observed that a solution might be Hands went up for those from Price Frederick (town happening in the seventies and eighties and there a series of neighborhoods with sidewalks. center and zip code) and those from north and south was a concern that there would be development from A survey was handed out to attendees and is avail- of the town center. Dunkirk all the way south to Solomons. And so, the able online. The survey asks which of the following The upstairs meeting room at the Prince Frederick town center concept was developed in 1983 to ad- issues are the most important: land use, housing, wa- Volunteer Rescue Squad was packed and the meet- dress that.” ter resources, public safety, environment and natu- ing at times became raucous and contentious. At one The county oversees seven town centers plus the ral resources, transportation, older adult and senior point Myra Gowans, president of Calvert Citizens independent towns of Chesapeake Beach and North facilities, education, heritage, economic vitality and United, which has sued the county over the vote to Beach have their own. Plummer-Welker noted that parks and recreation. adopt the updated county comprehensive plan, at- the existing Prince Frederick Town Center Master The survey is available on line on a page dedi- tempted to ask a question and before the sentence Plan was adopted in 1989 and much has happened in cated to the Prince Frederick Town Center pro- was completed, new Planning and Zoning Director the town and in society since then. cess: http://www.calvertcountymd.gov/2567/ Mary Beth Cook attempted to silence her. Plummer-Welker said the master plan envisions Town-Center-Master-Plan-Update Commissioner Tim Hutchins came to Cook’s de- expanding the Prince Frederick Town Center in two Deadline for returning the survey is Feb. 17. fense, saying it was her meeting to run. Gowans phases, but the exact number of housing units in those The next workshop is scheduled for Feb. 26 with would not be dissuaded and said all she wanted to areas will be defined by the town center plan and af- a snow date of March 4. Location has still not been know was what assurance citizens could receive that fected by issues such as terrain and transportation. determined. their comments would be heard. The commissioners When she asked the audience to identify the big- There will be four area workshops in April and adopted the comprehensive county plan over the ob- gest challenges in town, transportation was the first May. jections of the overwhelming majority of the citizens one raised. 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He said, “It was discovered AND SERVICE. that we were doing it more than most. And so, we had to take a hard look at ourselves and say why is that and what are our practices and when do we do it? Maybe we shouldn’t.” Curry explained, “We need to reduce Superintendent Dr.