What Would You Build in Odenton?

Odenton, MD - Earlier this week, Odenton Patch asked our Facebook readers what they would build or fix in town if they were given $1 million.

Readers from across the area responded with answers varying from new playgrounds, renovated high schools and improved hospitals.

Also early this week, U.S. News and World Report released its list of the Top 10 Children’s Hospitals Across the Country. The hospitals were ranked in terms of “clinical outcomes,” “efficient coordination of care,” and “care-related resources.”

The publication periodically releases lists regarding the best schools in the country as well as most livable cities. Many of the things that make a town or city ‘livable’ are resources and public spaces i.e. good schools, roads, parks, libraries, etc. Not surprisingly, these were many of the things readers said they would build or fix in their town if granted $1 million to do so.

Here’s what your neighbors said they would build in Odenton:

• " Youth rec center"
• "The MARC parking lot. Boom Town."
• " The absence of a sense of "community," of belonging, of neighborhood that comes from people getting to know one another, and working together for the good of all (rather than having outsiders dictate who does and doesn't get to build a development or have a business here)."
• "The lack of a town hall--a village center"
• "Skatepark/BMX track"
• "A traffic circle for 175 and 170"
• "More lights, more lanes. Traffic is a nightmare here."
• "Improve our schools."
• "The abominable pay ($11.25/hr) offered to those who would like to help mentor our children as substitute teachers."
• "A doggie park , a people park, with a loneliness bench. If you don't know what that is, Google it."

What would you build or renovate in Odenton if you had $1 million? Let us know on our Facebook page.

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