Background

The Board of Directors of the HOA is pleased to make ready for review the Oella Design Guidelines document, which has been in preparation for nearly two years. As you may know, the Oella HOA was formed in the early 1980s by the developer, Charles Wagandt, when he began restoring the historic homes that were to become our community. As Developer, he had a vision for our historic village and to keep that vision on track he retained the right of Architectural Control.

In December of 2008, Charles and the HOA Board of Directors negotiated a transfer of Architectural Control to the Oella HOA (the agreement has since been extended). Part of that Agreement stipulated that the HOA was to create a set of Architectural Guidelines which present and future Architectural Review Committees (now a committee under the HOA) could use as a reference guide to make objective decisions on matters in regard to character of future changes to properties. We hope that the Guidelines will also serve to enhance each community member’s understanding and, hopefully, enjoyment of our community.

We would like to take this opportunity to invite all Oella homeowners to review the Guidelines and offer comments and suggestions. We believe that community participation is of the utmost importance in this matter, and feel that community commentary will help to make the document as cohesive as it can possibly be.

Documents

An online version of the document can be found below.

A hard copy of this document is also available at the ACM office at 9198 Red Branch Road Columbia, MD 21045. Alternatively, residents may contact Alan L. Mangen from ACM at 410-997-7767 extension 151 to request a hard copy be mailed to their residence at cost.

Feedback

Thank you to all those that submitted feedback for the DRAFT Design Guidelines. The comment period has elapsed and comments are now closed.

The guidelines committee is currently reviewing each and every comment and is working towards a final version of the Design Guidelines document.