Two groups that are attempting to force some zoning changes to the 2014 ballot submitted an addition 16,000 signatures Monday.
The groups, the Committee for Zoning Integrity and the Committee for Zoning Transparency, delivered the additional signatures to the Baltimore County Board of Elections.
On Friday, the total signatures—34,000 signatures for the petition on the 6th district zoning issues and another 36,662 on the 2nd Council District.
The additional signatures delivered Monday come as the first deadline passes for the referendum effort.
Opponents of the bills, backed by developers including David Cordish and David S. Brown Enterprises, must submit at least 28,826 verified signatures of Baltimore County voters. The group can buy itself an extra 30-days if they can reach at least 9,513.
The signatures will take several days to verify.
wow exaggeration....a lil much there chuckles
How often in a day....do you drive on Reisterstown rd that you are so worried about traffic? why dont you go during the day to the hunt valley area (MONDAY-FRIDAY) during noon and see how busy they are....guess you want to see more empty buildings on reisterstown rd growing grass on cement such as 5 different properties...thats what you want. good citizen
Wegmans is 140,000 square feet of space. Foundry Row is about 400,000 square feet of space. That's 260,000 additional space feet composed of clothing stores, liquor stores, book stores, fitness centers, restaurants and anything else you would like to imagine. And, that means lots of traffic.
Dear Mr Brown ad Co. I think you just shot your selfish self in the foot!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am for the Wegman's, but if a vote of the Owings Mills only citizenry were possible and they voted against it, I would understand. You say the zoning process has been hi-jacked. Putting it in the hands of the voters county-wide makes this worse. Who is to stop the developers from promising a new shopping center in Essex or Woodlawn for their votes against the project in Owings Mills?
2. Maybe Toys R Us (Babys R Us) will expand. 3. Best Buy seems to be on its way out, anyhow - a casualty of the battle between Amazon and Walmart. 4. Is HH Gregg going into the Row? I hadn't heard. I seems to have a better reputation than BB, anyway, and will IT survive the A-W battle? 5. There will be no Wegmans liquor store (unfortunately - as also no Trader Joe's). Howard county shot down that idea, and so will Baltimore county. the liquor lobby is too powerful. 6. I know there have been problems with Ray Lewis's project at Hunt Valley - is there anything else?
they can close one and would be okay with it...they are garbage anyway....safeway also not a fan as many are not..
LMAO!! I DONT CARE WHAT GOES INTO A DUNDALK LOCATION I CARE ABOUT REISTERSTOWN/PIKESVILLE/OWINGS MILLS! Dundalk folks should not be voting on a WEGMANS Coming to owings mills!
GIANT IS NOT A REISTERSTOWN BUSINESS! NOR IS A SAFEWAY...IS THIS WHAT YOU ARE PROTECTING? THEY ARE FRANCHISES THAT ARE MONEY HUNGRY AND WANT IT ALL TO THEMSELVES. Lets not forget we have a MARS in Reisterstown that still has business and is not fased by a monopoly in the area GIANT, that has 2 locations within a 10 mile radius..a total of 3 stores on REisterstown RD and a 4th on Reisterstown RD plaza... so they are scared a little business will be going to WEGMANS.. and so are you...
look at OWINGS MILLS MALL...30 years it has taken for someone to speak out.... 1 security gaurd....pot holes,no stores, no workers, disgusting, crime, etc etc etc.. this is what you want I see...
The other one affects everything in the 6th District. They don't affect the other 5 districts.
If there is a problem with the way zoning is handled in Baltimore County, and I am not saying that there is or isn't, this is not the way to fix it. A change to the zoning process needs to be discussed, not a change to already determined zoning, just to please some unhappy business owners who may lose some money to competition.
1. Owings Mills, despite being named a growth area in the Baltimore County Master Plan, has been in decline for some years. 2. Wegmans, a grocery chain with an excellent reputation, has identified the former SOLO cup factory as a desireable location for a store which would help improve the image and reputation of Owings Mills, and a reputable developer has purchased the property and wants to accomodate Wegmans, along with other retailers and offices. 3. Several other developers do not wish that competition with their own plans, and have mounted a campaign to sidetrack it, using, in part legitimate concern about traffic in and around the property. 4. The would-be developer of the property has come up with plans that would, at his own expense, at least largely alleviate the traffic problems, and has satisfied the concerns of the zoning authorities and the County Council, which have given their go-ahead. 5. The other developers have now mounted a political campaign to halt, or seriously delay the development of the property in question, whether the people of the neighborhood want it or not, and even though it would tend to further the decline of the region. 6. SOMETHING will eventually go into that property. Will it be as desireable as Wegmans It's only as complex as people make it out to be.