Columbia Maryland began with the idea that a city could enhance its residents' quality of life.
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18 Facts About Columbia Maryland
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Columbia Maryland felt exploited and felt the subsidized housing would become a problem for the rest of the county.
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The urban planning process for Columbia Maryland included not only planners, but a convened panel of nationally recognized experts in the social sciences, known as the Work Group.
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Columbia Maryland has never incorporated; some governance is provided by the non-profit Columbia Maryland Association, which manages common areas and functions as a homeowner association with regard to private property.
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The centerpiece of Columbia Maryland would be The Mall in Columbia Maryland and man-made Lake Kittamaqundi.
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Downtown Columbia Maryland Plan has sustainability features, including goals for saving water and energy, and for ecology and livability.
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Columbia Maryland is unincorporated, there is confusion over its exact boundaries.
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Primary landforms in Columbia Maryland are rolling hills and stream valleys; Columbia Maryland's road network is laid out to follow the terrain, with many winding streets and cul-de-sacs.
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Columbia Maryland developed a sapling planter to replant sections of cleared land that would use Columbia's W R Grace-developed fertilizers.
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Columbia Maryland has a humid subtropical climate, with cool winters and hot, muggy summers.
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Companies based in Columbia include W R Grace and Company, Sourcefire, PetMeds, MICROS Systems, Martek Biosciences, Integral Systems, GP Strategies Corporation, Corporate Office Properties Trust, and the consumer research company Nielsen Audio .
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Mall in Columbia Maryland, located in Town Center, is a large regional shopping mall with three anchor department stores, a multiplex movie theater, and more than 200 stores and restaurants.
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Columbia Maryland offers chamber music concerts, children's programs, community outreach programs, master classes, and pre-concert lectures and discussions through the Candlelight Concert Society, a non-profit organization formed by Columbia Maryland residents to provide chamber music concerts since 1972.
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Two of the six branches of the Howard County Library System are in Columbia Maryland, including the Central Branch in Town Center and the East Columbia Maryland Branch in Owen Brown.
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The homeowners association, the Columbia Maryland Association, known to many in Howard County as "CA", builds, operates and maintains most of these facilities.
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Columbia Maryland has garden plots for rent, under the guidance of the Columbia Maryland Gardeners, which has been in existence since the 1970s.
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Six Howard Transit bus routes served Columbia and connected it with its neighboring areas until they were replaced by Regional Transportation Agency of Central Maryland in 2014.
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