Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Developers spoke about community benefits and took questions on traffic, demolition and the mix of tenants at a community input meeting Monday night.
Owings Mills resident David Ginsburg says he suffers from “consumer frustration.” If he wants to go shopping, he has to leave the immediate area. After hearing questions and complaints about the traffic that Foundry Row may bring to the Reisterstown Road corridor, Ginsburg stood up to make some comments that were met with enthusiastic applause. “As far as I’m concerned, Reisterstown Road is screwed,” he said, “and if it’s gonna be screwed, I might as well have a place to shop while I’m sitting in traffic.” Ginsburg and residents of Owings Mills and the surrounding areas attended a community input meeting on the project proposed for the vacant Solo Cup plant on Reisterstown Road on Monday night at New Town High School. It was the second …
Tuesday, February 5, 2013
A decision released Tuesday said the opponents of zoning issues in two council districts had enough signatures but ruled the petitions were legally deficient.
UPDATED (9:23 p.m.)—The Baltimore County Board of Elections ruled that petitions to referendum zoning decisions in two council districts will not be placed on the 2014 ballot. Baltimore County Elections Director Katie Brown wrote in a decision issued Tuesday afternoon that while opponents had collected the required number of signatures, the petitions were legally deficient. Andrew Bailey, an attorney for the county Board of Elections, reviewed five challenges to the petition filed by attorneys representing Greenberg Gibbons, the developer of the proposed Foundry Row project on the grounds of the old Solo Cup factory. "I believe that the form of the petition, as circulated to potential signers, was insufficient to alert them to what exactly…
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Baltimore County will hold a community input meeting about the Foundry Row project at New Town High School on Monday, Feb. 11.
Area residents will have another chance to voice their concerns to Baltimore County and developers at a community input meeting for the Foundry Row project next month. At 7 p.m. Feb. 11 a community input meeting on the development, a $140 million retail and business center to be built at the vacant Solo Cup plant, will be held at New Town High School. County officials will be at the meeting at 6:30 p.m. to answer questions prior to the meeting. At a public concept meeting in January, residents asked developers about traffic, the mix of retailers and road improvements. Little time was spent discussing the signatures submitted by two groups backed by opposing developers asking the county to bring its zoning decisions to referendum. “We …
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
Councilwoman Cathy Bevins denies that a bill passed Monday night affects the Middle River Depot project and could thwart a referendum attempt.
A bill passed by the Baltimore County Council Monday appears to provide an alternative development option for the owners of a Middle River industrial property that is the focus of a zoning referendum effort. The council approved the bill by a vote of 6-0 with Councilman Ken Oliver abstaining. Oliver said he abstained from a vote because a referendum involving the property has not yet been decided by voters. Bevins last week said the bill was about finding creative uses for large manufacturing buildings on the east side of the county that can't be torn down because of their historical designations. "Not only does it create a blight for the community but it's a reminder of the jobs lost," Bevins said of the warehouses, adding that her bill "…
Friday, November 9, 2012
Two groups funded by developers, including David S. Brown Enterprises and David Cordish, seek to overturn zoning for the Solo Cup and Middle River Depot properties.
Two groups funded by high-powered developers, say they have nearly 170,000 signatures in their effort to force two zoning issues to the 2014 ballot. The Committee For Zoning Integrity Inc. said in a statement that they have delivered an additional 83,435 signatures in their effort to challenge zoning decisions in the 2nd and 6th Council Districts. “We have successfully completed the signature gathering phase, with citizen interest in fixing the rezoning process in Baltimore County far exceeding our expectations,” Stuart Kaplow, an attorney for the Committee for Zoning Integrity Inc., said in a statement released Friday morning. “A referendum restores the sense of empowerment and guarantees integrity by direct participation in the decision …
Monday, November 5, 2012
Baltimore County Police arrested two men who stole copper wire from the Solo Cup property Sunday.
Baltimore County Police have charged a Baltimore man and a Randallstown man with stealing copper wire from the Solo Cup property on Reisterstown Road in Owings Mills Sunday. Daryl Boykin, 47, of Baltimore, and Romarise Thomas Scott, 46, of Randallstown, are charged with second-degree burglary, fourth-degree burglary and trespassing, according to a police report. The men were caught behind 10 Music Fair Road dragging copper wire off the vacant Solo Cup plant property at 10100 Reisterstown Road Sunday, Nov. 4, around 3:15 a.m. They had approximately $10,000 worth of 500 MCM copper wire, police said. The Solo Cup property is slated to become Foundry Row, a Wegmans-anchored development, which will be built by developer Greenberg Gibbons. …
Thursday, October 18, 2012
The county executive is expected to cite budget constraints and continue to request money for MARC-oriented development in Middle River and intersection upgrades near the Solo Cup property in Owings Mills.
County and state budget outlooks have not changed in the last year and because of that, County Executive Kevin Kamenetz's transportation requests will seem like a repeat. Kamenetz is scheduled to speak to a panel of state Department of Transportation officials this afternoon in Towson and outline his priorities for the coming year. As with last year, Kamenetz is expected to avoid pie-in-the-sky requests and wish lists and instead ask for continued focus and funding for just two projects—intersection improvements along Reisterstown Road near Painters Mill Road in Owings Mills and more transit oriented MARC development in Middle River. "It's really a continuation of the priorities he outlined last year," said Ellen Kobler, a county …
Friday, October 12, 2012
Group needs nearly 29,000 verified signatures of registered county voters to place zoning issues in the 2nd and 6th Council Districts on the 2014 ballot.
UPDATED (9:03 p.m.)—A developer-backed group that hopes to force two zoning bills to the 2014 ballot has delivered the first installment of signatures to the Baltimore County Board of Elections. The Committee for Zoning Integrity announced in a statement Friday that it submitted 34,000 signatures for the petition on the 6th district zoning issues and another 36,662 on the 2nd Council District zoning bill to the board of elections, according to an email Friday night from Stuart Kaplow, attorney for the group. By law, the group needs to collect 28,826 signatures of registered Baltimore County voters for each bill within 45 days of the county executive signing the bills. The group can extend the deadline by 30 days if it submits at least 9,…
Friday, October 5, 2012
Community leaders claim referendum on zoning decisions would "render the work of communities and the council vote meaningless."
A loosely formed group of community associations said Friday that it has formed a coalition to fight developers attempting to force two county zoning bills to referendum. The Don't Sign It! Coalition plans to begin a public education campaign to oppose a group calling itself the Coalition for Zoning Integrity, which is backed by David S. Brown Enterprises and The Cordish Companies. Cheryl Aaron, zoning chair for the Greater Greenspring Association and an organizer of the Don't Sign It! Coalition, said the attempt to overturn zoning decisions made by the County Council in August is bad for communities. "Communities don't have the resources to file referendums and hire lawyers and organizers to go out and collect signatures," Aaron said. "It…
Tuesday, August 28, 2012
The Baltimore County Council voted to rezone the vacant Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills from manufacturing to retail, a move that helps pave the way for Wegmans-anchored center Foundry Row.
The Baltimore County Council voted to rezone the Solo Cup plant in Owings Mills from manufacturing to retail. The vote helps pave the way for Foundry Row, a Wegmans-anchored retail and office center that was dependent on the rezoning to be built at the vacant plant on Reisterstown Road. The vote comes after months of debate between developers, special interest and community groups and council members. Developer Greenberg Gibbons plans to build a $140 million center that would be anchored by Wegmans, and house a national fitness center, a national sporting goods retailer, a national shoe retailer and 40,000 square feet of office space. CEO Brian Gibbons hopes to open the center, called Foundry Row, by spring 2015. "What the council did was…
Harlan
7:02 pm on Wednesday, February 13, 2013
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