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GOOD EVENING CHAIR CALLS THE ORDER PUBLIC HEARING FOR BILL 22 DASH 0 0 3.
UH, BEFORE WE GET STARTED, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO REMIND EVERYONE WITH THE VOLUME OF SPEAKERS THAT WE HAVE THIS EVENING, UH YOU'LL EACH GET THREE MINUTES.
UH, I WOULD ASK YOU AGAIN TO BE RESPECTFUL OF EACH OTHER SO THAT WE CAN MOVE THROUGH THE COMMENTS WE HAVE.
SO, UM, I WOULD ALSO ASK YOU TO REFRAIN FROM ANY APPLAUDS OR RECOGNITION IN ANY WAY, BECAUSE THE LAST THING I WANT TO DO IS HAVE ANYONE PUT OUT OF THIS PUBLIC HEARING, UM, WITH THAT COUNCILMAN BILL, THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
UH, THE PURPOSE OF BILL 22 DASH 0 0 3 IS TO ESTABLISH A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE APPROVAL OF SITE PLANS, ISSUE IN A BUILDING PERMITS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF ANY NEW BUILDING WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE PARAMIN PENINSULA.
ALSO TO ESTABLISH A COMMITTEE, TO EVALUATE THE IMPACT ON ANY NEW CONSTRUCTION, THE SAFETY OF THE WELLHEADS IMPAIRMENT, THE IMPACT UPON THE WATERWAYS AND THE OVERALL ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT OF THOSE WATERWAYS.
ALSO VEHICLE ACCESS AND THE SAFETY OF THE PARAMIN RESIDENTS.
THIS COMMITTEE WILL REPORT BACK ON THE IMPACTS OF THE EXISTING, UH, WHAT THAT WOULD ENTAIL.
WE WILL REPORT BACK TO THE COUNCIL WILL MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS, UH, REGARDING REGULATIONS AND STATUTES THAT WOULD NEED TO BE ADDRESSED BEFORE ANY FURTHER CONSTRUCTION WOULD PROCEED.
UH, THE DURATION OF THE MORATORIUM AT PRESENT IS 150 DAYS.
THAT'S ALL I HAVE COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
THANK YOU, MR. BUELLER COUNSEL, BEFORE I OPEN UP THE SPEAKERS, DOES ANYONE HAVE A COMMENT OR ANY COMMENT AT ALL? MS. DIXON CALL YOUR FIRST SPEAKER, STEPHANIE FLASH FOLLOWED BY MELISSA LAMBERT.
I'M HERE FROM NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE.
THE FRIENDS OF HARFORD PO BOX 2 94.
FRIENDS OF HARFORD SUPPORTS THE BILL 22 DASH 0 0 3.
THE FRIENDS OF HARTFORD ORGANIZATION FOCUSES ON ADVOCACY FOR ACTIONS AND POLICIES FOR REASONABLE LAND USE THAT ENHANCES HARFORD COUNTY CITIZENS QUALITY OF LIFE.
FOR OVER 20 YEARS, OUR WORK HAS BEEN A RESOURCE USED BY SEVERAL RESIDENTS.
UNFORTUNATELY, MANY OF OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH PEOPLE ARE ABOUT STRUGGLES WITH TRAFFIC CONGESTION, LIGHT POLLUTION, AIR QUALITY ISSUES, AND OTHER HARDSHIPS FROM DEVELOPMENT IN HARFORD COUNTY.
SO BASED ON OUR EXPERIENCE, A MORATORIUM ON THE APPROVAL OF SITE PLANS AND ISSUANCE OF NEW BILLING PERMITS IN MIXED RESIDENTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL AREAS IS REASONABLE CHANGES ARE NEEDED FOR EXISTING REGULATIONS TO MEET THE DEMANDS OF INSUFFICIENT PROTECTIONS OF CITIZENS, HEALTH, WATER, QUALITY, AND ENVIRONMENTALLY SENSITIVE AREAS.
AS INTRODUCED THE MORATORIUM PROVIDES A WAY TO STUDY DEVELOPMENT IMPACTS AND ADDRESS CITIZEN CONCERNS, BUT ONLY IN A LIMITED REGION, FRIENDS OF HARTFORD AGREES WITH THE NEED TO EVALUATE THE EFFECTS OF NEW CONSTRUCTION THAN PYRAMID PENINSULA, BUT REQUESTS AN AMENDMENT TO INCLUDE THE ENTIRE BUSH RIVER BASIN AND UNIQUE ENVIRONMENTAL AREAS WITH COMPARABLE MIXED RESIDENTIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USES.
MA'AM MELISSA LAMBERT, TWO 20 SOUTH MAIN STREET.
COUNCIL PRESIDENT COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I'M HERE TO PROVIDE THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH RESPONSE TO BUILD 2203.
WE NOTE THAT THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT IMPLEMENTATION PROBLEMS IN THIS BILL THAT WILL BE DIFFICULT TO OVERCOME.
ADDITIONALLY, THE USE OF A MOTO MORATORIUM UNDER THESE CIRCUMSTANCES IS NOT PERMISSIBLE.
THIS MAKES THE BILL IRREPARABLY FLAWED AS SUCH THE ADMINISTRATION CANNOT SUPPORT BILL 2203.
MA'AM HENRY GIBBONS FOLLOWED BY LESLIE STEIN.
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HENRY GIBBONS, 24 0 2 PAPAYA ROAD AND EDGEWOOD.UM, I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TONIGHT ON, UH, TO SUPPORT THE MORATORIUM.
UH, AFTER LAST WEEK'S COUNCIL MEETING, I FOUND MYSELF ASKING EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO CITIZENS OF HARFORD COUNTY.
IF THESE, THESE DEVELOPMENTS ARE ALLOWED TO GO FORWARD AND THE TRUCK TRAFFIC MATERIALIZES AS EXPECTED.
SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME I'M IN, IN MY DAY JOB, I'M A MICROBIOLOGIST.
WHO'S DEVELOPED A SURROGATE ORGANISMS OF HARMLESS BACTERIA FOR THE ARMY, WITH THE INTENT OF HELPING TO DEFEND THE WAR FIGHTER FROM BIOLOGICAL THREATS.
AND IN THE COURSE OF THAT WORK, I'VE COME TO BE FAMILIAR WITH THOUGH NOT NECESSARILY AN EXPERT IN ATMOSPHERIC MODELING TOOLS THAT ARE USED TO PREDICT WHERE AND WHEN EXPOSURE TO HARMFUL AGENTS MIGHT OCCUR, SHOULD SOMETHING NASTY, BE RELEASED.
DISCLAIMER, HERE, THIS IS MY WORK AND DOES NOT REPRESENT, UH, REPRESENT THE GOVERNMENT'S OPINION ON ANYTHING.
UM, YOU'LL FIND IT IN FRONT OF YOU.
IF YOU CHARTS THAT RESULTED FROM MY USE OF THE HIGH SPLIT TOOL, THAT'S AN ATMOSPHERIC MODELING SOFTWARE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC BY THE NATIONAL OCEAN OCEANOGRAPHIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION.
THIS TOOL CAN BE USED TO PREDICT WHERE VOLCANIC ASH, RADIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION BURNED FLUMES AND CHEMICAL BIOLOGICAL THREATS WOULD BE DISPERSED IN THE EVENT OF A RELEASE.
SO WHAT YOU SEE IS TWO SCENARIOS, UH, SIMULATING, UH, IT'S BASICALLY A ONE HOUR WINDOW, UH, IN A 12 HOUR RELEASE OF SIX KILOGRAM OF PM.
THAT'S LESS THAN TWO AND A HALF MICRONS FROM HEALTH PERSPECTIVE.
THE WORST OF THE WORST IN AEROSOL TERMS BECAUSE OF WHERE THEY DEPOSIT WITHIN THE LUNGS.
THAT'S CHARACTERISTIC OF PARTICULATE, EMISSIONS OF DIESEL EXHAUST.
THE AMOUNT IS BASED SOLELY ON THE OUTPUT OF AUXILIARY POWER UNITS OF YOUR TYPICAL TRACTOR FOR SIMPLICITY SAKE AND DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR THE TAILPIPE EMISSIONS.
I'VE NOT YET HAD THE TIME TO FIGURE OUT WHICH OF THE MUCH MORE COMPLEX SOURCE TERMS FOR THE LADDER, BUT I JUST WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY APPROXIMATELY WHERE THIS WOULD GO WITH THE TYPICAL WINDS IN THE AREA, WHICH ARE FOUND ON THE LAST PAGE OF THE HANDOUT.
I, YOU HAVE YOU'LL NOTE TWO PLUMES, WHICH COVER ABERDEEN AND RIVERSIDE, RESPECTIVELY THAT ARE MODELED ON A SUMMER AND A WINTER DAY.
I DON'T YET HAVE A CLEAR SENSE OF EXACTLY HOW MUCH TOTAL MATERIAL COULD BE EXPECTED NOR THE POTENTIAL EXPOSURE HAZARDS.
BUT IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT 40 TO 50% OF THE TIME WINDS BLOW FROM THE SOUTH SOUTHWEST OR THE WEST.
THIS MEANS THAT DAY IN DAY OUT, RESIDENTS ARE GOING TO BE EXPOSED TO PARTICULATE MATTER.
NITRIC NITRIC, OXIDE, EMISSIONS, CARBON MONOXIDE, EMISSIONS, AND HYDROCARBON FUMES, WHICH I HAVE NOT EVEN CALCULATED IN THIS MODEL FROM THIS DEVELOPMENT.
FURTHERMORE, THERE'S POSITIVE CORRELATION THAT EVEN LOW LEVEL DIESEL EXHAUST UP TO A, TO AIR ON EVERYTHING FROM ASTHMA TO LOW BIRTH WEIGHT, TO FETAL ABNORMALITIES.
AND THAT'S WELL-DOCUMENTED IN THE SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE.
SO I ASK YOU NOW IMAGINE PLUMES ALSO COMING FROM THE EXISTING WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT AND THE PERSPECTIVE DEVELOPMENT AND ABINGDON WOODS.
SO IF YOU DON'T WISH TO PUT THE CITIZENS OF THESE TWO LARGE RESIDENTIAL AREAS, THREE IN THE DIRECT PATH OF THESE EMISSIONS WITHOUT A REAL STUDY, FROM MY ROLE, AS OPPOSED TO MY CRUDE EFFORTS, DON'T DO IT, SUPPORT THE MORATORIUM UNTIL WE CAN GET THESE RISKS.
LESLIE STEIN, 8 1 0 FAIRWOOD DRIVE BEL AIR MARYLAND.
I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE ROUTE 40 BUSINESS ASSOCIATION.
WE PROMOTE BUSINESS AND COMMUNITY GROWTH ALONG THE ROUTE 40 QUARTER, WHICH WOULD BE TERM BENEFITS, HARFORD COUNTY.
THANK YOU TO THE HARTFORD COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK THIS EVENING AND REVIEW OF THE PROPOSED MEMORANDUM BILL NUMBER TWO, TWO DASH 0 0 3.
WE ARE IN FAVOR OF, WE FEEL BUILDING A 5.2 MILLION SQUARE FOOT WAREHOUSE ON A TOP OF A WATERSHED THAT SUPPORTS 30% OF HARFORD COUNTY IS VERY CONCERNING.
THE QUALITY OF LIFE IS A MAJOR CONCERN FOR THE RESIDENTS OF PYRAMID PENINSULA, THE SURROUNDING AREAS.
WE SEE WAY TOO OFTEN WATER CONTAMINATION CASES THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.
AND WE DON'T WANT TO BE ONE OF THEM.
WE UNDERSTAND THERE ARE FAIL SAFES THAT WOULD BE IN PLACE.
HOWEVER, ARE THERE GUARANTEES THAT WILL COME WITH THEM? IN ADDITION TO THE WATERSHED CONCERN, WE, THE REPORTEE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION WOULD LIKE FOR HARPER COUNTY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER THE NEGATIVE ECONOMIC IMPACT TO THE BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS OF THE PYRAMID PENINSULA AND THE CONTINUING TO ALLOW MEGA WAREHOUSES BEING BUILT IN ONE AREA.
PLEASE NOTE, WE UNDERSTAND GOOD BUSINESS PRACTICES AND GROWTH.
WE, THE REPORTEE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION PROMOTE THESE PRACTICES.
WE UNDERSTAND HAVING WAREHOUSES IN THE AREA BRING JOBS.
WHAT WE ARE HEARING IS THESE JOBS ARE LIMITED AND EMPLOYED.
INDIVIDUALS ARE COMING FROM OTHER COUNTIES.
WE ARE LOOKING FOR THE COST TO THE RESIDENTS CONSISTENTLY HAVING TO REPLACE MAILBOXES
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YARD DAMAGE AND DEAL THE DAMAGE FROM THE TRACTOR TRAILERS WINDING UP AND DOWN.THE ROADS IS NOT FOR THE TYPE OF, IS THAT WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR? NEGATIVE IMPACTING THE QUALITY OF THESE RESIDENTS, DO THE STRESS WHEN LEAVING AND ARRIVING TO THEIR HOME AND TRAFFIC BACKED UP, DID LIMITED ROAD ACCESS IS NOT EVEN WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR EITHER, BUT WE WOULD LIKE UNDER CONSIDERATION IS A MIXED USE BUSINESS PLAN FOR THIS AREA.
MIXED USE PROPERTIES HAVE PROVEN TO PROVIDE COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC GROWTH, PROVEN TO BE BRING NEW FAMILIES TO THE AREA THAT IN RETURN, BRING NEW BUSINESSES.
HAVING THE PROPERTIES DEVELOPED IN A PROFITABLE ENVIRONMENT WOULD BRING LONG-TERM ECONOMIC GROWTH.
MORE IMPORTANTLY, A POSITIVE QUALITY FOR LIFE.
THIS ASSOCIATION, THIS ASSOCIATION IS SUPPORTED BY THIS COUNCIL AND WE ASK THAT YOU CONSIDER WHAT WE'RE ASKING.
MA'AM PAT POWERED FOLLOWED BY JEFF HAD GOOD EVENING, SIR.
PAD POLLARD REPRESENTED GREATER HARTFORD COMMITTEE, 25 WEST COURTLAND STREET BELLAIRE, MARYLAND 2 1 0 1 4.
AS I SAY, MY NAME IS PAT POLLARD.
MY FAMILY MOVED THERE IN 1972.
WHEN MY FATHER WAS A CAPTAIN IN THE ARMY.
HE WAS STATIONED AT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND WITH THE INNER YEAR.
SO MY DAD BOUGHT A SMALL BOAT WHICH ALLOWED ME TO SPEND MY CHILDHOOD BOATING, FISHING AND CRAPPING ON THE BUSH RIVER.
WE OFTEN FREQUENTED BUSH RIVER BOAT WORKS FOR GAS, BOATING SUPPLIES AND REPAIRS.
I STILL HAVE NIGHTMARES ABOUT THE GIANT CHESAPEAKE BAY RETRIEVER NAMED BUSH THAT AGGRESSIVELY GUARDED THE GAS PUMPS.
MY PARENTS NOT BEING NATIVE MARYLANDERS LEARNED TO EAT CRABS AT GABLER'S CRAP HOUSE.
IT WAS A TREAT TO GET THE RARE RESERVATION.
I STILL BOAT OUT OF THE BUSH RIVER TODAY.
I ALSO VISIT PARAMIN QUITE OFTEN IN THE FALL AND WINTER TO WATERFOWL HUNT WITH MY CHILDHOOD, MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR AND RESIDENT APPARENTLY.
AND WENT THROUGH THIS THAT TO DEMONSTRATE THAT I'M PROBABLY MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE PROPERTY THAN THE TYPICAL BEL-AIR BUSINESS PERSON TONIGHT, I'M HERE AS A GRATER, AS CHAIRMAN OF THE GREATER HARTFORD COMMITTEE OR ORGANIZATION IS MADE UP OF OVER 60 HARTFORD COUNTY BUSINESS LEADERS WITH THE MISSION OF GIVING THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY A VOICE AND WORKING WITH POLITICAL GOVERNMENT COMMUNITY LEADERS TO ENSURE HARFORD COUNTY GROWS ECONOMICALLY IN A SMART AND RESPONSIBLE MANNER.
THE GREATER HARTFORD COMMITTEE IS AGAINST THE PROPOSED MORATORIUM ON THE MITCHELL PROPERTY AND PYRAMID.
THAT IS BECAUSE, BECAUSE WE WERE AGAINST MORATORIUMS IN GENERAL, NOT JUST SPECIFICALLY TO THIS PROPERTY, LEGISLATING BY MORATORIUM IS BAD POLICY THAT VIOLATES THE RIGHTS OF LAND OWNERS AND WILL DETER FUTURE INVESTMENT IN HARTFORD COUNTY WILL EVENTUALLY, WHICH WILL EVENTUALLY HARM OUR LOCAL ECONOMY.
IT SENDS A SIGNAL THAT HARTFORD COUNTY IS NOT OPEN FOR BUSINESS.
THERE IS A CODIFIED PROCESS IN HARFORD COUNTY REQUIRED TO DEVELOP A PROPERTY.
IT BEGINS WITH THE MASTER LAND USE PLAN, COMPREHENSIVE REZONING, THE ZONING CODE SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS.
UH, AND IT ALSO INCLUDES THE DI THE DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY COMMITTEE KNOWN AS DAC PLANNING AND ZONING WATER, AND SEWER STATE HIGHWAYS AMONG OTHERS.
THERE IS AMPLE AND ENCOURAGED TIME FOR PUBLIC INPUT.
DURING THIS PROCESS, ARBITRARY MORATORIUMS ARE NOT, AND SHOULD NOT BE PART OF THE PROCESS.
IN THIS CASE, WE ENCOURAGE THE COUNCIL AND THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE TO WORK TOGETHER WITH THE PROPERTY OWNER DEVELOPER, CITIZENS OF THE COMMUNITY COUNTY STATE AGENCIES IN ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND TO REACH AN ACCEPTABLE OUTCOME USING THE LEGAL DEVELOPMENT PROCESS WITHOUT A MORATORIUM, WE WOULD EXPECT THE PROPERTY OWNER AND THE DEVELOPER TO BE HELD TO THE CURRENT LEGAL PROCESS AND THE STANDARD, BUT PROPERTY OWNERS DO HAVE THEIR RIGHTS.
WE ALSO SUPPORT HEARING THE CONCERNS OF THE COMMUNITY AS PART OF THE PROCESS AS WELL.
FOR EXAMPLE, IN THIS CASE, THE COUNTY HAS ACKNOWLEDGED THE NECESSITY FOR A SECOND ACCESS TO ROUTE 40 FOR THE BETTER PART OF TWO DECADES.
SO WE THINK THAT THIS CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED WITH THE RIGHT POLITICAL EFFORT BY WORKING TOGETHER.
FINALLY, I THINK WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT GOING OUTSIDE OF THE LEGAL PROCESS.
THIS COUNCIL AUTHORIZED OVER A MILLION DOLLARS OF TAXPAYER MONEY TO PAY OUTSIDE ATTORNEYS SO THAT THE COUNTY COULD FIGHT AN UNNECESSARY AND WEAK LEGAL CASE AGAINST THE PROPERTY OWNER IN JOPPA JUST A FEW YEARS AGO, THE CASE WAS SETTLED FOR AN UNDISCLOSED, BUT I'M ASSUMING SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE LANDOWNER.
LET'S NOT WASTE MORE MONEY BY FOLLOWING, BY NOT FOLLOWING EXISTING LAWS IS THAT SYSTEM IS NOT WORKING.
BUT ARBITRARY MORATORIUMS ARE NOT THE ANSWER.
JEFF HAGUE, 1800 PARK BEACH DRIVE COUNTY COUNCIL.
THIS PROPOSED PLAN PRESENTED BY THE CHESAPEAKE DEVELOPMENT MITCHELL FAMILY IS SET AGAINST A BACKDROP OF AN HARFORD COUNTY LAND USE PLAN THAT DOES NOT WELL-DEFINED ALLY DEVELOPMENT AND LEGITIMATE FOR LA AND NOT.
WHERE ELSE IS IT AS LEGITIMATE FOR LA DESIGNATION?
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I BELIEVE HARFORD COUNTY NEEDS TO STUDY AND BRING UP THE DATE IT'S LA CODE NOW.AND WITHIN A MORATORIUM PERIOD, I WOULD ALSO JUST SUGGEST A MORE RESTRICTIVE AND SENSIBLE MAXIMUM PERCENTAGE FOR IMPERVIOUS SURFACES TO BE INCLUDED IN THESE LONG OVERDUE CODE UPGRADES AND UPDATES WITHOUT GOING INTO THE OBVIOUS DETRIMENTAL EFFECTS, THIS 5 MILLION PLUS WHERE ELSE PLAN HAS FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORICAL HARFORD COUNTY, PUBLIC WATER SAFETY AND DISCRIMINATORY FACTORS AGAINST THE PRAMEN CITIZENS PERSPECTIVE.
IT IMPOSES EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM, INCLUDING I DARE SAY THE COUNTY COUNCIL AND COUNCIL EXECUTIVE.
NO, THIS PLAN IS DEEPLY FLAWED WITH NO REAL BENEFIT TO, BUT A FEW PEOPLE CHESAPEAKE DEVELOPMENT AND THE MITCHELL FAMILY.
I BELIEVE THAT MOST IN THIS ROOM FEEL THE COUNTY COUNCIL SHOULD BE HERE TO SERVE THE BENEFITS OF OUR CONSTITUENTS AND NOT THE FEW SUCH AS DEVELOPERS AND INDIVIDUAL FAMILIES WHO HAVE THE FORTUNATE MEANS TO MAKE CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS TO COUNTY COUNCIL MEMBERS OR COUNTY EXECUTIVES.
I'M NOT NAMING ANYBODY HERE, BUT IT'S EASY TO SEE IN THE PUBLIC RECORDS WHO HAS MADE CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE MEMBERS OF COUNTY COUNCIL, COUNTY, EXECUTIVE, OR OTHERS FOR EXPECTED FAVORABLE ACTIONS.
I WANT TO SPEAK TO NUISANCE FOR A MINUTE.
NUISANCE TO PERIMAN RESIDENTS IN MARYLAND, A CAUSE OF ACTION.
UNDER A THEORY OF PRIVATE NUISANCE REQUIRES A SHOWING ONE THAT THE NUISANCE HAS DIMINISHED MATERIALLY THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY AS A DWELLING AND TWO THAT THE NUISANCE HAS SERIOUSLY INTERFERED WITH ORDINARY COMFORT AND ENJOYMENT OF THE PROPERTY.
I BELIEVE THIS PROPOSED PLAN BY CHESAPEAKE DEVELOPMENT BE CONSIDERED BY THE PRANK COMMUNITY AS A NUISANCE UNDER ARTICLE 6 82, CIVIL CODE, EVERY BUILDING OR PIECE OF LAND IS SUBJECT THE EASEMENT, WHICH PROHIBITS A PROPRIETOR OR POSSESSOR FROM COMMITTING NUISANCE THROUGH NOISE, JARRING, OFFENSIVE ODOR SMOKE, HEAT, DUST, WATER, CLARE, AND OTHER CAUSES.
AS IT AS CAN BE CLEANED FROM ARTICLE 6 96 OF THE CIVIL CODE, THE OWNERS OR POS POSSESSORS OF THE PROPERTY, EVEN THEIR SUCCESSORS ARE LIABLE FOR SUCH A NUISANCE REMEDIES AGAINST SUCH A NUISANCE, INCLUDE A BASEMENT AND RECOVERY OF DAMAGES.
JEFF, HOLD ON JUST A MINUTE, PLEASE.
LADIES, CAN YOU FIND A SEAT, PLEASE? GO AHEAD, JEFF.
IF IT CAN BE HEARD AT A DISTANCE OF AT LEAST 50 FEET FROM THE PLACE IN WHICH IT IS LOCATED, THERE SHALL BE A PRIME APHASIA EVIDENCE OF A VIOLATION AND THE INDIVIDUAL OR BUSINESS OPERATING THE SAME SHALL BE PUNISHMENT SHALL BE PUNISHED BY A FINE OR AN IMPRISONMENT OF NOT MORE THAN SIX MONTHS OR BOTH.
NUISANCE IS EITHER PUBLIC OR PRIVATE.
A PUBLIC NUISANCE AFFECTS A COMMUNITY OR A NEIGHBORHOOD OR ANY CONSIDERABLE NUMBER PEOPLE, PERSONS.
ALTHOUGH THE EXTENT OF THE ANNOYANCE DANGER OF DAMAGE UPON INDIVIDUALS MAY BE UNEQUAL GENTLEMEN TO THE COUNTY COUNCIL.
I'LL CONCLUDE IN SAYING, DO WHAT YOU KNOW IS RIGHT THING HERE, IMPOSE SOME AUDITORIUM AND THEN DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE AND ADDRESSING ISSUES HAVE BEEN BROUGHT BEFORE YOU BY THREE PEANUT PERRYMAN RESIDENTS.
ALL FOR LACI FOLLOWED BY JOHN GOOD EVENING, PAUL FALAJI THREE 20 MARINE AVENUE.
PERIMAN THE PAIRING OF PENINSULA IS A MICROCOSM OF EVERYTHING THAT IS PART OF HARTFORD COUNTY.
ALL WITHIN FIVE MILE RADIUS OF THE MITCHELL FARM PROPERTY.
WE HAVE WATERFRONT HOMES AND MOBILE HOMES FARMLAND TO MAKE A WAREHOUSES DISTRIBUTION CENTERS.
THE RECENT NORFOLK SOUTHERN DERAILMENT OF 20 FREIGHT CARS FILLED WITH COAL HIGHLIGHTS.
JUST ANOTHER INDUSTRIALIZATION OF THE PYRAMID AREA THAT PUT OUR LIVES AT RISK.
WHEN THE LIVES OF THE OTHER 99% OF THE COUNT, MORE THAN THE LIES, THE OTHER 99% OF THE COUNTY, WE WERE LUCKY.
IT WAS ONLY COAL AND NOT METHANE BENZINE OR OTHER DANGEROUS CHEMICALS, OFTEN TRANSPORTED BY RAIL.
IT'S A GREAT COMMUNITY THAT HAS UNIFIED TO KEEP ITSELF BEAUTIFUL, BUT WE NEED YOUR HELP.
WE LIVE WITH ALL THESE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, GROWING PAINS, WAITING FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND COMMUNITY BENEFITS PROMISED FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
THE OXYMORON SMART DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN VERY EFFICIENT AS INDUSTRIALIZING PERIMAN WITH 30% OF THE MEGA WAREHOUSES IN ALL OF HARFORD COUNTY AND PLANTS TO PUSH THAT OVER 50%, UH, IN ADDITION TO NEW ROADS AND CONNECTING EXISTING ROADS, STATE ROADS LIKE SEVEN, 15 NEEDS TO HAPPEN, IT'S BEEN PROVIDED VERY WELL.
THE, UH, DEVELOPMENT PROCESS HAS PROVIDED VERY WELL TO THE DEVELOPMENT FIRMS, ENGINEERING FIRMS, LAW FIRMS THAT SUPPORT THEM.
THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN THOSE COMMUNITIES AMONG THE INDUSTRIALIZATION.
THE MITCHELL FARM IS OUR LAST FIELD OF DREAMS. IF THEY BUILD IT, THE NEW ROAD CONNECTIONS WILL COME WELL.
AFTER 20 YEARS, WE KNOW IT WILL NEVER COME UNLESS IT COMES FIRST TIME YOU TAKE A BREAK AND LET THE INFRASTRUCTURE CATCH UP.
WE FINALLY SEE SOME SPARKS OF HOPE AND INFRASTRUCTURE WITH THE CAPITAL PLANS AS PATRICIA ROAD, EVEN A STATE BILL WITH SOME ENFORCEMENT
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RELIEF, WE ALSO NEED HELP ON OLD PHILADELPHIA ROAD AND THE BUSINESSES THAT CAUSE TRACK BOOK BACKUPS ON ROADS THAT ARE NOT EQUIPPED FOR TRACTOR TRAILERS, A TRUCK STOP ON THE SAME ROAD.IT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD IDEA BECAUSE TRUCKS ARE STARTING TO BUILD UP ON ALL THESE ROADS, BUT WHY IS IT BEING JAMMED INTO THE SAME FILE MILE RADIUS? UM, IS THERE ANY STUDY ABOUT THE CUMULATION OF TRAFFIC FROM THE TRUCK STOP? THE SEVEN PROPOSED MEGA WAREHOUSES, THREE EMPTY WAREHOUSES, ALL WITHIN THE SAME FIVE MILES.
WE FEEL WE HAVE OUR FAIR SHARE OF NEGATIVE PRE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS.
ARE YOU, AS YOU HEAR, WHEN YOU'RE SHORTLY, WE NEED MORE TIME TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF THEREMIN.
WE NEED MORE TIME TO FULLY EVALUATE THE DISPARATE IMPACT AND ECONOMIC INJUSTICE OF THE AREA.
WE NEED MORE TIME TO UNDERSTAND THE FULL ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, ESPECIALLY THE AQUIFERS THAT PROVIDE 30% OF THE DRINKING WATER TO THE COUNTY AND AREA THAT THAT HAS NOT HAD THE PARKS AND REC INVESTMENT.
WE JUST WANT TO BALANCE IT OUT.
CAN YOU PUT THEM IN OUR FAIR SHARE? IF WE CAN HAVE 30% OF THE WAREHOUSES AND 30% OF THE DRINKING WATER, PLEASE GIVE US 30% OF THE OPEN SPACE FOR PARKS AND REC.
GIVE US 30% OF LAND PRESERVATION.
WE WANT WATER ACCESS TO THE BUSH, WHEREVER LIKE ADDINGTON EDGEWOOD JOPPA, HABITA GREECE, DARLINGTON ALL THE RIVERFRONT ZIP CODES, EXCEPT FOR BERRYMAN AND ABERDEEN.
WE HAVE PROVIDED FACTUAL ARGUMENTS ABOUT THE NEGATIVE EFFECTS THAT BOTH THE DOCUMENTARY, THE COUNTY COUNCIL OVER THE LAST THREE MONTHS, AND THESE INPUTS ARE BEING IGNORED BY THE HOUNDING, THE HARTFORD COUNTY GOVERNMENT, THE COUNTY EXECUTIVE UNTIL NOW THE COUNTY COUNCIL, WHERE THERE IS A CHECK AND BALANCE ON THE SYSTEM.
THIS HAS MADE OUR COUNTY, OUR COUNTRY STRONG.
AS YOU LISTEN TO THE MANY STORIES AND FACTS ABOUT HISTORY, PLEASE BRING YOUR COMMENTS TO A CLOSE.
UH, THE MORATORIUM IS A LEGISLATIVE CHECK AND BALANCE GETS TURNED INTO A CHANCE BOTH TO CAUSE THANK YOU, SIR.
GOOD EVENING TO YOU AND YOUR COLLEAGUES.
JOHN P MALAMA 24 0 2 EAGLEVIEW DRIVE IN 1856.
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT HEARD DRED SCOTT CASE FOR FREEDOM.
DRED SCOTT WAS A SLAVE OF AFRICAN DESCENT.
HIS ANCESTORS WERE A PURE AFRICAN BLOOD BROUGHT TO THIS COUNTRY AND SOLD UNDER PREVAILING LAW.
HE WAS NOT AND COULD NEVER BE A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES REGARDLESS OF THE STATUS OF SLAVE OR FREE MAN.
HE SOUGHT FREEDOM UPON A CLAIM THAT HE HAD ONCE LIVED IN A FREE STATE AND HE AND HIS FAMILY WERE THERE FOR FREE.
THE CASE WAS DECIDED ON HIS LACK OF STANDING TO BRING SUIT INTO THE COURT.
THE COURT HAVING NO JURISDICTION BECAUSE MR. SCOTT WAS NOT A CITIZEN OF THE UNITED STATES, SLAVES WERE CONSIDERED PROPERTY AND THE FIFTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION PROTECTED PROPERTY RIGHTS OF SLAVE OWNERS.
THE DECISION WAS CORRECT UNDER PREVAILING LAW, WHICH LEADS TO THIS POSTULATE, BAD GOVERNMENT, BAD GOVERNANCE LEND THEMSELVES TO BAD LAWS.
A PERSON WITHOUT RIGHTS AND LAW ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY LAW WILL SECURE LITTLE IF ANY RELIEF IN THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM, IN THE SITUATION AT HAND, THE LAND OWNER HAS A BUNDLE OF RIGHTS TO EXCLUSIVE USE OF PROPERTY.
THOSE RIGHTS ARE INFRINGED BY THE ZONING CODE, ZONING FAVORS DEVELOPMENT AND HARTFORD COUNTY.
WHENEVER THE CODE CONFLICTS WITH FAVOR DEVELOPMENT, THE COUNCIL CHANGES A CODE OR THE ADMINISTRATION IGNORES IT.
WITNESS LARGER SIGNS FOR JAMES RUN GAS STATIONS IN A WATERSHED DISTRICTS WITHOUT PUBLIC WATER, THE SOBER LIVING HOUSE.
AND OF COURSE THE AIRPORT RESIDENTS ACQUIRE NO RIGHT TO SAFE ROADS, CLEAN WATER, PEACEFUL NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE ZONING CODE.
THEY LARGELY EXCEPT FOR THE CONSEQUENCES OF BAD LAWS, BAD GOVERNMENT AND BAD GOVERNANCE.
THIS BILL IS DEFICIENT BECAUSE THE CENTRAL RIGHTS ARE NOT PRESENTED.
THE SITUATION ON PARAMIN PENINSULA HAS EXISTED FOR YEARS, NO RELIEF OR SUPPORT FROM THE COUNCIL UNTIL NOW THE SOLUTION IS CLEAR HAS BEEN FOR YEARS, IMPROVE THE ROADS, PRESERVE PARAMIN WELL FIELDS, BUFFER RESIDENTS FROM AN INDUSTRIAL USES.
THE QUESTION FOR STUDY IS PAYS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PARADIGM AND PENINSULA.
THERE'S NO FUNDING APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE STUDY GROUP NOR THE SOLUTIONS THEY MIGHT PROPOSE.
DEVELOPMENT GETS A TAX INCENTIVE.
IS THAT HOW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WORKS? HOW MUCH MORE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CAN I AFFORD? PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW ECONOMIC NAMEC DEVELOPMENTS DO NOT PAY FOR THE PROBLEMS THEY BRING TO HARTFORD COUNTY.
IS THIS A SINCERE EFFORT TO REMEDY THIS SITUATION ON PARAMIN OR AN ISSUE FOR AN ELECTION YEAR CAMPAIGN, BEST CASE CALENDAR DEMONSTRATES COMMITTED REPORT AVAILABLE TO AUGUST, 2022, WORST CASE 30 SEPTEMBER GENERAL ELECTION EIGHT, NOVEMBER, 2022 MORATORIUM EXPIRES FOR SEPTEMBER 20, 22 OR FOUR, NOVEMBER, 2022.
NEW COUNCIL INSTALLED JANUARY OF 2023 WORST CASE AND BEST CASE CALENDARS BOTH MISSED THE 2023 BUDGET CYCLE, PERHAPS THE 2024 BUDGET CYCLE AS WELL.
SOUNDS MORE LIKE A BREAKOUT CAMPAIGN ISSUE THAT COFFEE MUG, A BUMPER STICKER, AND A PINT OF WHISKEY ELECTION WINNER.
EVERY TIME PARAPHRASING OTTER FROM AMARILLO HOUSE, YOU'RE A MISTAKE.
TAKE THIS BILL BACK AND GET IT RIGHT RIGHTS FOR RESIDENT OF PYRAMID, PENINSULA, AND NOTHING NECESSARY FUNDING APPROPRIATIONS START WORKING ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE YOU REPRESENT.
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DON'T BE HONORED.ROBERT LYNCH FOLLOWED BY KAREN COKE.
PRESIDENT, ANY MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL I AM HERE REPRESENTING THE CHESAPEAKE REAL ESTATE GROUP.
I'M SPEAKING IN OPPOSITION TO THE BILL BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING, THIS BILL IS ANTIBUSINESS AND IT IS AN ATTACK ON HARTFORD COUNTY'S OWN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY, WHICH HAS BEEN SET IN MOTION FOR THE PAST 30 YEARS.
I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD BE SPEAKING BEFORE THIS PRIMARILY PRO BUSINESS REPUBLICAN COUNTY COUNCIL, WHO HAS BEEN ASKED BY ONE OF THEIR REPUBLICAN COLLEAGUES TO SUPPORT A BILL THAT DIRECTLY TRAMPLES ON CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED PROPERTY RIGHTS, WELL FIELD PROTECTION, ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATION, TRAFFIC ISSUE, STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ARE ALL ISSUES ADDRESSED BY THE EXECUTIVE BRANDS.
YOU ARE ALL FAMILIAR WITH THESE REGULATIONS BECAUSE YOU YOURSELVES HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CODIFICATION OF THIS INTO LAW.
YOU, THESE REGULATIONS PROVIDE A STRINGENT PROTECTIONS OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND OF THE COMMUNITIES.
IF APPLIED PROPERLY, IT'S A FUNCTION OF THE LEGISLATIVE BRANCH TO CREATE LAWS.
THE COUNCIL'S FUNCTION IS NOT TO IMPLEMENT THE LAWS ONCE PASSED IS THAT FUNCTION IS STRICTLY A POWER SOLELY LIMITED TO THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH.
THE BASE TO THIS BASIC CONCEPT OF SEPARATION OF POWERS IS OUTLINED IN THE CONSTITUTION AND IT MANDATES THIS LEGAL FRAMEWORK.
THIS BILL SEEKS TO UNDERMINE THE SEPARATION OF POWERS AND IF APPROVED INJECTS THE COUNTY COUNCIL INTO THE DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS, THIS BILL, IF PASSED WILL SEND A HORRIBLE ANTIBUSINESS MESSAGE THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY IN MID-ATLANTIC REGION, HARFORD COUNTY IS TOO UNPREDICTABLE TO CONDUCT BUSINESS.
YOU MUST BE AWARE, BE AWARE OF A POSSIBLE MORATORIUM.
THE PENINSULA STUDY GROUP IS MERELY A MEANS TO DELAY IMPLEMENTATION OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND IMPEDE THE ABILITY TO PROCEED WITH PROJECTS PURSUANT TO THE LAW.
MORATORIUMS ARE NOT TO BE USED AS A GROWTH MANAGEMENT TOOL IS THAT AS PATENTLY ILLEGAL PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE THE ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO RELY ON ZONING AND MASTER PLAN.
THE ENTIRE LEGAL BASIS FOR PLANNING AND ZONING IS PREMISED ON PREDICTABILITY OF LAND USE.
PERIMAN INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT HAS HAD THE SUPPORT OF EVERY COUNTY EXECUTIVE SINCE THE 1980S INCLUDED HAYBURN FRAMES AND EILEEN RAYMOND, JAMES HARKINS, DAVID CRAIG, AND BARRY GLASSMAN PRIOR COUNTY COUNCIL THROUGH THE PASSAGE OF CAPITAL BUDGET, MASTER PLANS, REZONE MAPS HAVE ALSO SUPPORTED INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT.
THEY HAVE IMPOSED A ENTERPRISE ZONE IN PERRIMAN MOST RECENTLY IN 2017, INCLUDING AN ADDITIONAL 114 ACRES AND RECOGNITION OF NEED TO CONTINUE TO STIMULATE GROWTH FOR THE PAST 34 YEARS.
EVERY SINGLE MASTER PLAN PASSED IN THIS COUNTY HAS ADDRESSED THIS ISSUE.
THIS PROPERTY WAS ZONED AND TO LA IN 1997, I REQUEST IF YOU LOOK AT WHAT'S HAPPENED OVER THE YEARS WITH WAYFAIR RITE AIDS FOUR, AND KOHL'S THIS DID THESE INDUSTRIES.
DIDN'T MAGICALLY APPEAR THERE ON HARFORD COUNTY DUE TO LOCATION TAX CREDITS.
THEY BRING INVESTMENTS AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES.
I REQUEST THE COUNCIL AND BEULAH WITHDRAWAL.
IT IS RECKLESS TO ABANDON AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT POLICY THAT BENEFITS THE RESIDENTS OF HARTFORD COUNTY PASSAGE OF THIS BILL SENDS A LOUD MESSAGE.
WELL, BEYOND THEIR BORDERS, HARFORD COUNTY IS CLOSED FOR BUSINESS.
THIS BILL INCLUDES YOUR COMMENTS TO A CLOSE MR. LEWIS, THIS BILL AND CLOSING THIS BILL AND CLOSING UNDERMINES THE INTEGRITY OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
THANK YOU, PLEASE, PLEASE TRY TO CONTROL YOURSELVES OR I'M GOING TO AUNTIE THIS WHOLE CHAMBER AND YOU'LL BE OUTSIDE WAITING TO COME IN ONE AT A TIME.
UM, KAREN COCK, 2132 PARAMIN ROAD, ABERDEEN.
COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I'M HERE TO TESTIFY IN SUPPORT SUPPORTIVE BILL 22 DASH 0 0 3 PARAMIN PENINSULA MORATORIUM FOR DECADES.
PARAMIN PENINSULA HAS BEEN A LARGELY RESIDENTIAL AREA WITH A WORKING FARM.
THIS ENVIRONMENT HAS BEEN CHERISHED SINCE MY HUSBAND PURCHASED OUR HOME IN 1994, HE CHOSE THIS LOCATION FOR THE PEACE AND QUIET, THE HISTORY, THE SERENITY OF A REFUGE TO COME HOME TO AFTER WORKING IN BALTIMORE CITY EVERY DAY, HE HAS POURED HIS HEART AND SOUL INTO THIS HOME.
HIS SON WAS RAISED WITH THE FREEDOM TO PLAY, RUN, RIDE BIKES, HUNT, FISH, AND EXPERIENCE THE CHILDHOOD THAT WILL NOW BE ENTIRELY AN EXPERIENCE OF THE PAST.
WE HAVE SEEN CHANGE IN THE PAST FEW DECADES.
WE ARE NOT IGNORANT THAT CHANGE HAPPENS.
BUT WITH THE CURRENT PROPOSED PLANS, OUR HOME ALONG WITH MANY, MANY OTHERS WILL LOSE
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VALUE TO THE BENEFIT OF ONE FAMILY.THIS AREA IS ALREADY EASILY DUMPED ON BECAUSE OF OUR DEMOGRAPHICS.
WE DO NOT NEED MORE WAREHOUSES.
WE DO NOT NEED MORE WAREHOUSES IN THESE MEETINGS.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SAFETY, ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT INFRASTRUCTURE, ET CETERA.
THE CHILDREN, HOW WILL THESE MEGA WAREHOUSES WITH INCREASED TRACTOR TRAILER AND PRIVATE CAR TRAFFIC IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THE CHILDREN OF PERRY MEN.
THE ROADS ARE ALREADY CRUMBLING.
THERE ARE A FEW LOCATIONS WITH AN ACTUAL SHOULDER AND NO SIDEWALKS.
THE DAYS ARE GONE OF RUNNING DOWN THE ROADS BAREFOOT.
PENINSULA IS NOT DESIGNED TO HOUSE THESE MEGA WAREHOUSE.
THESE MEGA WAREHOUSES, THE CHILDREN OF PAIRING AND SURROUNDING AREAS WILL HAVE THE GIFT OF TOXIC POLLUTION FROM THOUSANDS OF ADDITIONAL CARS, DIESEL EXHAUST IN THEIR LUNGS FROM THOUSANDS OF TRUCKS, LIGHT AND SOUND POLLUTION FROM AN INDUSTRY THAT WORKS 24 7 DISGUSTING TRASH LINING THE STREETS THAT IS THROWN THERE BY INDIVIDUALS WHO DO NOT LIVE ON THE PARAMIN PENINSULA OR CARE ABOUT THE PENINSULA.
THE CHILDREN OF PERRIMAN ARE BEING ROBBED OF THEIR CHILDHOOD AND SOMEBODY IS GOING TO GET HURT IN CLOSING.
I WOULD LIKE TO ASK YOU TO THINK ABOUT HOW YOU WOULD FEEL IF THIS MONSTROSITY WAS IN YOUR BACKYARD, WOULD YOU ALLOW YOUR CHILDREN TO RUN OR BIKE DOWN THE STREET, YOUR SPOUSE TO WALK THE DOG, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN, TO PLAY HOPSCOTCH, FOURSQUARE, OR KICKBALL ON THESE ROADS.
AGAIN, SOMEBODY WHO'S GOING TO GET HURT.
I CANNOT SLEEP AT NIGHT KNOWING THE EXTREME NEGATIVE IMPACT THIS IRRESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT WILL HAVE ON THE CHILDREN.
THE FUTURE OF THE PARAMIN PENINSULA.
CAN YOU PLEASE HELP US AND PASS THE MORATORIUM? THANK YOU.
MA'AM GLENN ARE SEATS UP FRONT HERE, SUSAN.
BUYER'S FOLLOWED BY JILLIAN MILLER.
SUSAN BUYERS, 1 6 0 3 PERRIMAN ROAD.
PARAMIN GOOD EVENING, COUNCILMAN AND SANTEE AND OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS.
I WOULD LIKE YOU TO LOOK AT THIS BILL, NOT AS A VOTE FOR OR AGAINST THIS DEVELOPMENT, AS EVERYONE IS TRYING TO MAKE IT OUT TODAY, IT IS NOT BAD AT ALL.
THIS BILL IS SIMPLY A BILL ASKING FOR TIME, TIME TO GET THIS RIGHT TIME TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION ABOUT OVER VERY ENVIRONMENTALLY SIGNIFICANT PIECE OF LAND IN HARFORD COUNTY.
GETTING IT WRONG IS BAD FOR EVERYONE IN THIS COUNTY NOW AND FOREVER.
DO YOU UNDERSTAND? YOU CANNOT TAKE BACK.
WHAT IT IS NOW, ONCE YOU START DIGGING IN IT, WHICH IS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO TAKE THE TIME TO MAKE SURE YOU HAVE IT RIGHT.
THE LADY WHO SPOKE FOR ADMINISTRATION ADMITS THERE ARE A LOT OF ISSUES WITH US.
WHY WOULD YOU RUSH THROUGH AND NOT ADDRESS ALL OF THE ISSUES I GET? THERE ARE LAWS.
MAKE SURE THAT IT'S DONE, RIGHT? IT'S NEVER A BAD IDEA TO DOUBLE-CHECK WHEN IT IS SOMETHING THAT'S IMPORTANT.
TAKE THE TIME, VOTE FOR THIS MORATORIUM THOUGH, WHICH WILL GIVE YOU THE TIME TO REALLY MAKE SURE YOU'RE MAKING THE RIGHT DECISION FOR YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR CHILDREN'S CHILDREN AND EVERYONE.
WE'RE NOT SAYING WE'RE FOUR AGAINST JUST VOTE FOR THIS BILL.
WE ARE FOR THIS BILL TO VOTE FOR THE TIME NEEDED TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION.
AND THAT'S ALL I ASK, MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION.
FOR THIS BILL TO GIVE US THAT TIME.
MA'AM WHAT DO YOU THINK, GENTLEMEN? COUNCILMAN WOODS.
MY NAME IS JILLIAN MILLER TO THE GENTLEMEN WHO SPOKE EARLIER AGAINST THE BILL.
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH CHANGE IT HAPPENS IN A QUARTER OF A CENTURY, AS YOU STATED, I'M HERE TONIGHT TO ADVOCATE AGAINST THE MITCHELL PROPERTY PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
I'M SURE THE RESIDENTS WHO RESIDE IN PARAMIN WILL SHARE MORE INFORMATION THAN I COULD EVER GIVE YOU.
BUT I JUST WANTED TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL HOW THIS AFFECTS OUR ENTIRE HARFORD COUNTY COMMUNITY AND A FAMILY OR FRIEND GROUP.
WHEN ONE PERSON STRUGGLES, IT IMPACTS THE ENTIRE GROUP.
THE SAME GOES FOR ONE COMMUNITY HERE IN HARTFORD.
THE COUNCIL IS VOTED IN BY ITS CONSTITUENTS TO CREATE A TYPE OF BALANCE FOR ALL OF US.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN PARAMIN TO KNOW HOW MANY WAREHOUSES SIT BACK ON THE PENINSULA.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN PARAMIN TO IMAGINE HOW MANY EMPLOYEES IT TAKES TO RUN THOSE WAREHOUSES.
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YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN PARAMIN TO IMAGINE HOW MUCH TRAFFIC THOSE EMPLOYEES BRING IN AND OUT OF THE PENINSULA.YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN PARAMIN TO REALIZE HOW MUCH DAMAGE THE LARGE AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC DOES TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE IN PARAMIN.
YOU DO NOT HAVE TO LIVE IN PYRAMID TO REALIZE HOW THE DAMAGE INCREASE.
IT DECREASES PROPERTY VALUE AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD IN GENERAL IMPAIRMENT, BUT YOU DO HAVE TO LIVE IN PARAMIN FOR THE IMPACT TO BE SO REAL THAT YOU SEE IT IN YOUR FRONT YARD REGULARLY AND GET A SICKENING FEELING ABOUT SAFETY AND POLLUTION, NOT ONLY AIR, BUT WHAT ARE ALSO GENTLEMEN, BE COMPASSIONATE ENOUGH TO SYMPATHIZE WITH THE FOLKS WHO HAVE BEEN DEDICATED AND UNAPOLOGETICALLY BRAVE TO CONTINUE TO COME HERE WEEK AFTER WEEK AND MAINTAIN SO MUCH RESPECT, SHARE FACTS AND SHOW COMPASSION TO YOU ALL THROUGH MR. INJURY.
AND EVEN MR. VINCENT HE'S WIFE SURGERY, ALL THEY ARE ASKING IS TO BE TREATED THE WAY THEY HAVE TREATED YOU WITH RESPECT.
MA'AM MARK HEALEY FOLLOWED BY GREG SONIM.
COUNCIL PRESIDENT AND FELLOW MEMBERS.
MY ADDRESS IS 7 5 2 5 CANNOLI DRIVE, HANOVER, MARYLAND, 2 1 0 7 6.
I'M A PROJECT MANAGER FOR TRAFFIC CONCEPTS AND I WRITE TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDIES.
I HAVE NEARLY TWO DECADES OF WORK IN HARFORD COUNTY, BEGINNING IN 1993 AS A TRANSPORTATION PLANNER FOR THE COUNTY.
IN 2005, I STARTED WORK FOR TRAFFIC CONCEPTS AND CONDUCTED MANY, MANY STUDIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTY, INCLUDING PYRAMID AND PENINSULA.
UM, I'M SPEAKING IN OPPOSITION TO THE BUILT TONIGHT.
UM, AND LIKE TO JUST GO THROUGH SOME OF THE, UM, POLICIES AND LAWS THAT THE COUNTY HAS IN PLACE THAT ARE BOTH COMPREHENSIVE AND VERY THOROUGH.
UM, DEVELOPMENT REVIEW IN HARFORD COUNTY IS SET UP AND PUBLICLY ADOPTED REGULATIONS TO BALANCE THE RIGHTS OF LANDOWNERS AND THEIR SURROUNDING PUBLIC.
THERE IS A ZONING CODE IT'S UPDATED EVERY EIGHT YEARS SO THAT EVERYBODY UNDERSTANDS WHAT THE ZONING OF EACH LAND PARCEL IS.
THERE'S AN ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITY ORDINANCE THAT THE COUNTY, WHEN, WHEN A PROJECT PLAN IS SUBMITTED TO THE COUNTY AND GENERATES MORE THAN 249 TRIPS, THAT STARTS A PROCESS THAT STARTS WITH A COMMUNITY INPUT MEETING THAT THE DEVELOPER HOLDS AND INVITES THE COMMUNITY TO GO OVER THE PROJECT.
UM, THAT ALSO STARTS WHERE THE PROCESS WHERE I COME IN, THE ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITY ORDINANCE FOR ROADS, A TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY IS REQUIRED BY THE COUNTY IS REVIEWED BY THE COUNTY AND BY STATE OFFICIALS, THE TRAFFIC STUDIES STARTED WITH A SCOPING MEETING AND AT THE SCOPING MEETING, THE COUNTY DEFINES WHAT INTERSECTIONS I'M TO STUDY THE METHODOLOGIES THAT I USE TO STUDY THE INTERSECTIONS.
THE COUNTY DEFINES GROWTH RATES THAT WE'RE USED TO PLOT TO APPLY TO, TO INTERSECTION TURNING MOVEMENTS.
THE COUNTY DETERMINES THE LAND USE CODE USED IN MANUALS TO GENERATE TRIPS AND DETERMINES THE RATES FOR TRAFFIC.
IT ALSO DETERMINES THE PERCENT OF PASSENGER CARS, A TRAFFIC STUDY IS ESSENTIALLY MADE UP OF FOUR STEPS.
THAT'S BEEN AROUND FOR DECADES, IT'S TRIP, GENERATION TRIP, ASSIGNMENT, TRIP, DISTRIBUTION, AND MOE CHOICE, THE COUNTY AND THE STATE HAVE A SAY IN ALL OF THESE, THE TRIP GENERATION I SAID IS DETERMINED AND APPROVED BY THE COUNTY AND THE STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, THE TRIP DISTRIBUTION AND HOW TRIPS ARE ASSIGNED TO EACH INTERSECTION ARE APPROVED BY BOTH THE STATE AND THE COUNTY.
AND THEN DEPENDING ON THE LAND USE THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES, PASSENGER CARS AND TRUCK PERCENTAGES ARE DETERMINED BY THE COUNTY.
SO THERE'S VERY LITTLE THAT GOES INTO A TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY AT THE VERY BEGINNING THAT ISN'T CONTROLLED BY BOTH THE COUNTY AND THE STATE.
AND IN ADDITION TO THE COUNTY REGULATIONS, IN TERMS OF TRAFFIC STUDIES, THERE'S ALSO STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND FORESTATION PLANS THAT HAVE TO BE SUBMITTED AND APPROVED.
PLEASE BRING YOUR COMMENTS TO A CLOSER.
SORRY, GREG PAISANO, 1826 PARK BEACH DRIVE.
UM, I'M GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT DISPARITY TODAY.
UM, BUT FIRST, UM, COUNCILMAN WOODS, WELCOME BACK.
WE'RE NOW IN OUR FOURTH MONTH OF STANDING IN FRONT OF THIS COUNSEL STATING AND RESTATING FACTS TO YOU AND OUR CONCERNS.
UM, AT SOME POINT I GOT TO THINK THAT YOU'RE KIND OF GETTING TIRED OF HEARING US SPEAK, BUT WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SAY
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IS THANK YOU ALL BECAUSE I WATCH YOU FROM THIS SIDE AND YOU ALWAYS PAY ATTENTION TO EVERYTHING WE SAY.AND I KNOW THAT'S GOTTA BE TOUGH.
I'D ALSO LIKE TO ASK A, I THINK MAYBE SOME OF YOU HAVEN'T VISITED PARAMIN PLEASE VISIT.
PARAMIN REACH OUT TO ANY BLUE HAT ARE HERE AND WE'LL TAKE YOU ON A TOUR IF YOU'D LIKE, UM, IT'S A GREAT PLACE.
AS YOU KNOW, AT LIKE BEL AIR ABERDEEN OR HAVERTY GRACE.
WE DON'T HAVE A MAYOR OR A TOWN COUNCIL.
SO WE NEED YOU AS OUR, OUR TOWN COUNCIL.
WE DEPEND ON YOU TO PROTECT US.
UM, UH, YOU KNOW, PRESIDENT BEN SANTEE, I GUESS YOU'RE OUR MAYOR.
SO WE LOOK TO YOU, UM, I'M GONNA READ A LITTLE BIT FROM THE FRONT PAGE OF THE AGENT'S ARTICLE, MARCH 11TH.
SCOBEY WILSON IS AN ASSOCIATE PRESSURE OF PRES PREP.
THE WORD PROFESSOR THAT I'M LOOKING FOR WITH THE MARYLAND INSTITUTE FOR APPLIED ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH AND DEPARTMENT OF EPIDEMIOLOGY AND BIOSTATISTICS AND UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK SCHOOL OF, UM, UM, SCHOOL.
UM, HE SAYS THAT THE, UM, WHAT'S HAPPENING TO THE PYRAMID.
PENINSULA IS A FORM OF RACISM.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, UM, UH, THE 2010, UM, THE 2010 SURVEY SHOWED THAT PYRAMID PENINSULA HAS THE LOWEST ANNUAL INCOME AND HIGHEST POVERTY RATE IN THE COUNTY.
RACIAL MAKEUP IS 64% WHITE, 25, 20 4%, UH, BLACK WHILE HARFORD COUNTY IS 80% WHITE AND ONLY 15%.
WILSON GOES ON TO SAY THAT HE TURNS WHAT'S HAPPENING IN PARIS AS A CONTAMINATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
SO WHAT HAPPENS IS BECAUSE OF THE EMBEDDEDNESS OF RACISM, UM, THEY, WE BECOME AN EASY TARGET FOR THIS INVESTMENT BEING OVERBURDENED OVER DEVELOPED AND BEING DUMPED ON.
HE SAID, THIS IS COMMON FOR A POST-SLAVERY COMMUNITY THAT ARE UNINCORPORATED AGAIN, THIS IS WHY WE NEED YOU TO PROTECT THE PENINSULA.
UM, OTHER EXAMPLES OF THE, UH, DISPARITY FOR, FOR OUR COMMUNITY IS IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THE PARKS AND THE PARKS IN HEART, REST OF HARFORD COUNTY, UM, THEY'VE GOT PAVED PARKING LOTS.
YOU LOOK AT THE TWO, UH, TWO PARKS, I GUESS YOU COULD CALL THEM IN OUR COMMUNITY.
UM, THERE ARE DUMPING GROUNDS.
THE ONLY TIME WE GET ANYBODY FROM THE COUNTY TO COME IN IS WHEN SOMEBODY DUMPS SOMETHING.
IT HAS TO BE CLEANED UP BETWEEN THE TWO PARKS.
WE HAVE ONE PORT-A-POTTY, UM, THOSE, THE FACILITIES, THE REST OF THE COUNTY HAVE ENCLOSED AREAS.
UM, WE HAVE TWO BUS STOPS IN PARAMIN, THEY'RE BOTH ON ROAD.
NEITHER OF THEM HAVE COVERS, LIKE YOU'D SEE IN BEL AIR AND AIR ABOUT SIX INCHES AWAY FROM, FROM WILL NOT OCCUR, BUT SIX INCHES AWAY FROM THE ROAD.
UM, FURTHERMORE, IT'S BEEN A SUGGESTED WE ENCOURAGE OUR BLACK NEIGHBORS, UM, LIVING BELOW THE POVERTY LEVEL TO COME TO THESE MEETINGS TO SHOW HOW WHITE PEOP TO SHOW THAT IT'S NOT JUST WHITE PAGE FOR YOUR COMMENTS TO A CLOSER.
LAST THING I'D LIKE TO SAY IS, UM, YOUR TIME IS UP.
KATHELEEN ELACHI FOLLOWED BY HOLLY MCCOMAS.
UM, I WANT TO MAKE AN OBSERVATION.
SOME OF THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME UP IN THAT SPOKE ON BEHALF OF PERRY, MEN, THEY'VE THEIR WORDS HAVE BEEN STUMBLED TONIGHT A LITTLE BIT.
NO WAREHOUSES, NO WAREHOUSES, NO WAREHOUSES, NO WAREHOUSES, NO WAREHOUSES, NO WAREHOUSES, NO WAREHOUSES AND NO WAREHOUSES.
TO A MORATORIUM AND YES, TO A MORATORIUM.
NOW THAT I GOT THAT OUT OF MY SYSTEM, UM, THIS IS MY FIRST PUBLIC HEARING.
I REALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN WE SHOULD EXPECT AN ANSWER TO OUR VOTE OR VOTE VOTING FOR THIS BILL.
SO, UH, PRESIDENT , I PRACTICE YOUR NAME LIKE 10 TIMES PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO REPRESENTS ME.
AND I DON'T, BUT PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME WHEN CAN WE EXPECT, I CAN'T ANSWER THAT TONIGHT, MAN, BUT YOU'LL YOU'LL KNOW AS SOON AS WE KNOW.
HOLLY MCCOMAS, 1826 PARK BEACH DRIVE PYRAMID.
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AND MR. WOODS, THERE IS A REASONABLE EXPECTATION TO A CERTAIN QUALITY OF LIFE THAT ONE SHOULD EXPECT TO MAINTAIN.IF YOU BUILD YOUR HOME NEXT TO AN EXISTING RAILROAD TRACK, YOU EXPECT TO HEAR THE RUMBLE OF THE TRAINS AND THE BLOWING OF THE HORNS AND THE SHAKING OF YOUR HOUSE.
AND YOU REALLY CAN'T COMPLAIN.
FIRST, IF YOU BUILD YOUR HOUSE NEXT TO ABERDEEN, PROVING GROUND, YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR THE TESTING OF MUNITIONS AND THE SHAKING OF THE EARTH WHILE THEY EXPLODE.
IF YOU BUILD YOUR HOUSE NEXT TO A BEAUTIFUL 711 ACRE FERTILE FARM LEONE FARMLAND THAT HAS BEEN FARMED FOR GENERATIONS SURROUNDING AND SURROUNDED BY HOMES.
AND THEN IT IS DEVELOPED INTO FIVE MEGA WAREHOUSE STRUCTURES, TOTALING 5.2 MILLION SQUARE FEET, 2000 SQUARE FEET OF RETAIL AND SERVICE BUILDINGS AND 5 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF ROADWAY AND PARKING FOR 2,178 TRACTOR TRAILERS AND 3,773 CARS.
THERE IS NO WAY THAT THE RESIDENTS OF MEN CAN MAINTAIN THEIR WAY OF LIFE.
IF THAT HAPPENS, YOU WILL HAVE 24 7 BRILLIANT LIGHTS SHINING ON FAMILY HOMES, SLAMMING TRACTOR TRAILER DOORS.
WHILE THE GATES ARE LEFT OPEN, AND THE, AND THE WINDS ARE BLOWING RANDOMLY AT TWO AND THREE IN THE MORNING, BLARING UNDESIRABLE MUSIC, EMPLOYEES HOLLERING BACK AND FORTH USING FOUL LANGUAGE.
AND HOW DO I KNOW THIS? BECAUSE I HAVE VISITED AND TALKED TO MY NEIGHBORS WHO ARE DEALING WITH THIS ALREADY WITH THE WAREHOUSES THAT HAVE BEEN BUILT UNDER THE ZONING OF THIS COUNTY.
I CAN REMEMBER WHEN I LIVED IN ABINGDON YEARS AGO, THE OLD FIRE COMPANY WAS ACROSS FROM COKESBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
THERE WAS A LADY ACROSS THE STREET THAT LIVED IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC.
UH, BEFORE SHE CAME HERE, SHE COMPLAINED TO THE COUNTY AND GOT THE ABINGDON FARR COMPANY TO TURN OFF THEIR SIRENS AND NOT USE THEM BECAUSE IT REMINDED HER OF THE SIRENS.
SHE USED TO HEAR DURING THE RAIDS AT HER HOUSE, THAT WAS ONE PERSON AND ONE OCCASIONAL SIREN.
NOW, AND THEN THIS IS FIVE HUGE WAREHOUSES AND A BOATLOAD OF TRAFFIC.
OTHERWISE THEY WOULDN'T PUT THAT MUCH PARKING IN.
RIGHT? I UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE OF ZONING IS TO CONTROL TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON PUBLIC ROADS TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE LIGHT AND AIR AND PROMOTE THAT TO PROMOTE THE CONVERSATION CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES, INCLUDING THE PRESERVATION OF PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURAL LAND AND CONSERVE THE PROPERTY VALUES.
PLEASE SUPPORT THIS BILL, GIVE THE COUNTY ENOUGH TIME TO CONDUCT PROPER STUDIES AND NOT PUSH THIS PROJECT THROUGH CARELESSLY CAUSING IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE.
THANK YOU, TERRY ANDERSON FILE FOLLOWED BY GLEN GILLIS.
TERRY ANDERSON, 1638 PERRIMAN ROAD.
I'M HERE TONIGHT AND SUPPORT A BILL TO TWO DASH 0 0 3 PARAMIN PENINSULA MORATORIUM AS A MEMBER OF A FOUR GENERATION FAMILY THAT HAS WORKED AND LIVED IN PARAMIN FOR 50 50 YEARS.
I FEEL THAT OUR COMMUNITY HAS BEEN DISPROPORTIONATELY DUMPED ON TO DATE.
THE NUMBER OF WAREHOUSES IN PARAMIN FAR EXCEEDS ANY OTHER AREA IN HARFORD COUNTY.
WE ARE NOW PAYING THE PRICE FROM UNFULFILLED PROMISES OF A ROAD CONNECTION AT WOODLEY AND 77 15, WHICH HAS RESULTED IN HEAVY TRAFFIC, UNSAFE ROADS, LONGER RESPONSE TIMES FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES AND TRACTOR TRAILERS THAT WIND THEIR WAY THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD STREETS.
HAVE YOU EVER HAD TO WAIT FOR A STEADY STREAM OF TRAFFIC TO GO BY BEFORE YOU CAN PULL OUT OF YOUR DRIVEWAY OR HAD TO SAY A PRAYER AND HOLD YOUR BREATH AS YOU MAKE YOUR WAY OUT OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? WE DO EVERY DAY.
I CAN'T IMAGINE WHAT OUR EVERYDAYS WILL LOOK LIKE.
IF THE MITCHELL PROJECT GOES THROUGH 2000 MORE CARS AND HUNDREDS OF TRUCKS, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
WE NEED TO SAY NO TO THIS CONCRETE CEMETERY WHOSE VICTIMS WILL BE OUR MOST VALUED RESOURCES, OUR DRINKING WATER, OUR WILDLIFE, THE LAND, AND MARYLAND'S
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MOST TREASURED CHESAPEAKE BAY.THE TERMS, THE TERMS MEGA WAREHOUSE AND DISTRIBUTION CENTER ARE WORDS THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE ALLY CODES AND ARE CERTAINLY THINGS THAT DON'T BELONG IN A SMALL RURAL COMMUNITY.
THE LARGEST DISTRIBUTION CENTER IN THE UNITED STATES IS NOT SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE BUILT ON A PENINSULA ON THE BUSH RIVER.
YOU HAVE HEARD US VOICE OUR CONCERNS OVER THESE PAST WEEKS.
NOW IT IS OUR TURN TO HEAR YOUR VOICES SAYING YES TO THIS MORATORIUM, HELP US WITH THIS FIRST STEP IN SAVING THIS AND VERY, VERY IMPORTANT PART OF OUR COMMUNITY.
IT IS MUCH EASIER TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE THAN IT IS TO FIX A BAD DECISION.
PARAMIN I'M HERE TONIGHT TO VOICE MY SUPPORT OF THE APARTMENT AND ITS SLOW MORATORIUM BILL 22 DASH 0 0 3.
WE HAVE SPOKEN EXTENSIVELY WITH COUNTY OFFICIALS AND THE COUNTY COUNCIL ABOUT THE INAPPROPRIATE APPLICATION OF THE EXISTING ZONING CODE TO MAKE A WAREHOUSE DISTRIBUTION CENTER, FREIGHT TERMINAL DEVELOPMENTS IN LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONED DISTRICTS, ESPECIALLY ONES ADJACENT TO RESIDENTIAL COMMUNITIES.
AND WITH THAT INADEQUATE ROADS, WE'VE ARGUED ALSO THAT THE VERY CODE THAT IS USED DOES NOT ADDRESS THE REALITIES OF THE MODERN DISTRIBUTION CENTERS INSTEAD RELIES ON VAGUELY AND OUTDATED VIEWS OF WAREHOUSING WITHOUT CONSIDERATION OF SCALE AND INTENSITY OF USE IN THE MODERN USE, ALLOWING 5 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF DISTRIBUTION BUILDINGS IN WITH 24 7 ACTIVITIES AND THOUSANDS OF VEHICLES IS NOT LIKELY WHAT THE DRAFTERS OF THE LA PERMITTED USE TABLES ENVISIONED AS APPROPRIATE.
ALSO WE'VE HEARD FROM THE OFFICE OF COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT THE DEVELOPMENT PROPOSED IS ELIGIBLE.
AND IN FACT, ENCOURAGED BY THE COUNTY FOR ECONOMIC INCENTIVES, WE HAVE ASSERTED THAT THESE INCENTIVES HAVE BEEN PROMISED DESPITE THAT DEVELOPMENT NOT MEETING THE BASIC CRITERIA, PROVIDING GOOD JOBS FOR HARTFORD RESIDENTS AND REVITALIZING PREVIOUSLY INDUSTRIAL OR UNDERUTILIZED PROPERTIES.
THERE IS NO EVIDENCE OF THE POSITIVE VALUE OF THESE INCENTIVE PROGRAMS TO THE COMMUNITIES MOST EFFECTED BY THE DISTRIBUTION CENTERS.
THE COUNTY HAS BEEN NON-RESPONSIVE ON OUR ASSERTIONS AND APPEARS SET TO INTERPRET ZONING IN FAVOR OF THE DESIRED OF THE DEVELOPERS OVER THE BEST INTEREST OF THE COMMUNITIES AND BASED ON THEIR OWN CODY OWN ZONING CODES PURPOSE.
BECAUSE OF THESE REASONS I SUPPORT THE MORATORIUM TO PAUL'S FURTHER LARGE-SCALE DEVELOPMENT AND ALLOWED ALL PARTIES TO STUDY AND ADDRESS THE ISSUES OF ZONING AND INCENTIVES AS WELL AS OTHER OBVIOUS ISSUES OF TRAFFIC SAFETY ENVIRONMENT, THREE QUALITY DRINKING, WATER AND DISPARATE IMPACT.
ALSO, PLEASE REMEMBER THAT A VOTE FOR THE BOARD STORIUM IS NOT A VOTE AGAINST THE MITCHELL PROPERTY.
INSTEAD IT IS A VOTE TO ALLOW THOSE INVOLVED TIME TO STUDY AND CONSIDER THE IMPACT OF THIS TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT AND WHAT IS MOST APPROPRIATE FOR THE OWNERS AND THE COMMUNITIES INVOLVED.
PLEASE SHOW YOUR SUPPORT TO PARAMIN AND OTHER EFFECTED COMMUNITIES BY VOTING TO ENACT BILL 22 DASH 0 0 3.
79 LAWSUITS FILED 641 MILLION AWARDED IN SETTLEMENT SINCE AUGUST OF 24 RESIGNATIONS FOR FIRED 15 INDICTED, 16 FACED CHARGES, SEVEN OFFICIALS CHARGED WITH 34 FELONIES, SEVEN MISDEMEANORS.
TWO OFFICIALS HAD BEEN CHARGED WITH INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER.
87 ARE STILL FIGHTING FOR THEIR LIVES.
A PUBLIC AND STATE EMERGENCY WAS DECLARED.
WHAT ARE THESE NUMBERS FROM, FROM A CITY WHOSE GOVERNMENT IGNORED THEIR VOICES AND ALLOWED THEIR WATER SYSTEM TO BECOME CONTAMINATED FLINT, MICHIGAN, A SMALL TOWN OF ROUGHLY 81,000 RESIDENTS.
THE PARAMIN WELL HAD TO PROVIDE 30% OF OUR COUNTY'S DRINKING WATER TO ROUGHLY 90,000 RESIDENTS AS NOTED OCTOBER, 2000 REPORT SOURCE WATER MAIN ASSESSMENT.
PREPAREMENT WESTFIELD DONE BY OUR GOVERNMENT OVER 21 YEARS AGO.
IT IS THE LARGEST SOURCE OF GROUNDWATER IN HARFORD COUNTY.
DID ANYONE ON THE COUNCIL NOTICE, DOES ANYONE IN THE COUNCIL
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OR EVEN IN THIS ROOM, EVEN KNOW WHO ANY OF THESE 90,000 RESIDENTS ARE THAT WE'VE SEEN WATER FROM THESE WELLHEADS, WERE ANY OF THEM NOTIFIED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL CONTAMINATION OF THEIR WATER? I CAN GUARANTEE YOU, THEY WEREN'T.AS A MATTER OF FACT, I KNOW THAT ONLY 91 LETTERS WERE MAILED TO THE ENTIRE PERRIMAN COMMUNITY ABOUT THE CRM MEETING.
WHY, WHY ISN'T EVERY ONE AFFECTED NOTIFIED? I KNOW WHY BECAUSE, AND I QUOTE, WE HAVE A MINIMUM ROOMS WE NEED TO GO BY AS STATED BY JERRY POWELL ON SEPARATE OCCASIONS.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, WHEN HE WAS QUESTIONED ABOUT THE POSSIBLE CONTAMINATION AND HOW THEY WILL HELP TO REDUCE HARMFUL DIESEL EXHAUST BY A RESIDENT AT THE DAC MEETING, MR. POWELL REPLIED AND I QUOTE, THERE IS NO PLAN, HIS EXACT WORDS.
IT'S UNFATHOMABLE TO ME THAT THIS WAS AN ANSWER ACCEPTED BY OUR COUNTY GOVERNMENT.
AND QUITE FRANKLY, DISGUSTING, SAFE DRINKING WATER IMPACTS ARE A GREAT AND MAJOR CONCERN OF OUR COMMUNITY AND HARFORD COUNTY.
WE HAVE NOT HAD A STUDY IN 21 YEARS AND SINCE THEN THE PAYMENT AREA HAS ALREADY BECOME A STOMPING GROUND FOR MASSIVE WAREHOUSES.
AND CURRENT STUDIES, WE DO NOT WANT HARFORD COUNTY TO BECOME FLINT PART TWO.
AND MY GUESS IS THAT OUR COUNCIL AND GOVERNMENT DON'T DON'T EITHER.
FINALLY, I WANT TO GIVE A FEW MORE NUMBERS FOR THE COUNCIL TO PONDER C C M C I M.
MEETING WAS THREE HOURS LONG, 112 PAGES OF COMMUNITY TESTIMONY.
TESTIMONY THAT MEETING WAS ON WAS FOUR HOURS LONG, 64 PAGES OF TESTIMONY, 86 PAGES OF LETTERS AND QUESTIONS FROM CONCERNED CITIZENS THAT COULD NOT ATTEND LIFE.
1,856 SIGNATURES ON A PETITION TO STOP THIS DEVELOPMENT.
THE MORATORIUM HAVE BEEN EMAILED TO EVERY ONE OF YOU.
I'M SURE YOU'RE NOW 12 WEEKS OF COUNCIL MEETINGS.
WE'VE HAD 220 SPEAKERS AND UNLESS 11 HOURS OF TESTIMONY AND STILL NOT ONE PERSON STOOD UP HERE AND SUPPORTED THIS MONTHS, POROSITY OF A PROJECT TO TELL YOU HOW IT WOULD BENEFIT OUR COMMUNITY.
THESE GUYS IN THE STAKES, NONE OF THEM HAS SPOKE TO BENEFIT OUR CAUSE.
WE ARE STRONG AND WE'RE NOT GIVING INTO DEVELOPMENT MONSTER CREATED BY HARFORD COUNTY'S ELITE.
IT'S TIME TO CLOSE THAT DEVELOPMENT ENVELOPE IN SOUTHERN OFFER COUNTY AND GIVE US THE RESPECT AND HEALTHY LIVING THAT WE TOO ARE ENTITLED TO FROM OUR GOVERNMENT.
YES FOR THIS MORATORIUM PROTECT PARAMIN.
GOOD EVENING, GENTLEMEN, CHIP RILEY PARAMIN.
I HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH CHIEF MANI, YOU ABERDEEN FIRE DEPARTMENT AND PAST CHIEF, STEVE HENCH.
THEY BOTH HAVE MANY CONCERNS AND SAFETY ISSUES IN PYRAMID.
ONE BEING RESPONSE TIMES, THEY BOTH TOLD ME THE RESPONSE TIMES AS THEY STAND RIGHT NOW ARE ABOUT 13 MINUTES TO AREAS IN PYRAMID COMMUNITY.
DURING NORMAL TRAFFIC CONDITIONS PAST, UH, PAST CHIEF HENCH ACTUALLY FEELS IT'S LONGER, BUT DURING THE HOURS FROM 3:00 PM TO 8:00 PM TRUCKS ROUTINELY BLOCK SOUTH PHILADELPHIA BOULEVARD BETWEEN ROUTE SEVEN 15 AND THE PARAMIN ROAD ROUNDABOUT.
SO RESPONSE TIMES WILL BE LONGER.
THEY BOTH SAID THE CLOSEST FIRE APPARATUS WOULD BE COMING FROM THEIR MAIN STATION.
WILL ROGER STREET IN DOWNTOWN ABERDEEN.
THAT KIND OF RESPONSE TIME IN MY OPINION IS UNACCEPTABLE.
AND IT'S AS WE LIVE IN THE RURAL AREA OUT IN MONTANA OR WYOMING, BUT NO, WE LIVE IN PARAMIN MARYLAND, CHIEF MANI, HUGH AND HINCH BOTH SAID THAT WOODLEY ROAD AND ROUTE SEVEN, 15 CONNECTION NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE ANY NEW CONSTRUCTION DONE IN PERRIMAN COMMUNITY.
CHIEF HENCH WAS ADAMANT ABOUT THAT CONNECTION BEING COMPLETED.
BILL SNYDER, FIRE SAFETY PERSON ADVOCATE FOR DECK FEELS THE SAME WAY.
AND HE HAS BEEN REQUESTING THAT PROJECT BE DONE SINCE 2014 WITH PREVIOUS WAREHOUSE CONSTRUCTION, SLATED FOR PYRAMID.
WELL, THE COMMUNITY ALSO FEELS THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE.
AND I KNOW MOST MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT ALSO FEEL THE SAME WAY.
IT SEEMS EVERYONE KNOWS THAT SEVEN 15 AND WOODLEY ROAD CONNECTION NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED BEFORE ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT IS DONE IN PARAMIN SEEMS EVERYONE KNOWS BY NOW.
THAT'S NOT HAPPENING ANYTIME SOON.
AND IF IT DOES IT WON'T BE FOR MANY YEARS DOWN THE ROAD.
THAT SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO STOP THIS DEVELOPMENT.
THIS PAST WEEK, WE EXPERIENCED A TRAINED RELMAN ON THE AMTRAK NEXT TO PARAMIN ROAD.
CHIEF HENCH SAID THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WASN'T EVEN NOTIFIED IF IT WAS A HAZMAT INCIDENT, IT COULD HAVE BEEN DISASTROUS TO THE LOWER PENINSULA.
ONLY ONE WAY IN AND OUT FOR EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT.
AS A RETIRED FIRE MARSHALL AND
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MANY, IF NOT ALL FIRE EMS EXPERTS IN THE LOCAL JURISDICTION HAVE ALL SAID, THIS IS AN EXTREMELY BAD IDEA AND PLAN FOR PARAMIN THE CHANCES OF A HAZMAT OR SEVERE LIFE SAFETY INCIDENTS ARE ALREADY TOO HIGH IN THE PARAMIN COMMUNITY.NO NEW WAREHOUSES, NO NEW WAREHOUSES TOMORROW.
PARKER MITCHELL FOLLOWED BY SHERI RILEY.
I LIVE AT THREE 15 MARINA AVENUE, ABERDEEN.
I'M A MEMBER OF THE MITCHELL FAMILY AND I OPPOSE A MORATORIUM.
MY FAMILY HAS LIVED IN HARTFORD COUNTY FOR GENERATIONS, NEIL AND PARKER.
MITCHELL STARTED CANNING VEGETABLES AND PARADIGM.
AND IN 1902, WE CAN CORN UNTIL 1985 AND CONTINUED TO FARM CASH GRAINS FOR ANOTHER 10 YEARS.
DURING OUR YEARS IN BUSINESS, WE EMPLOYED HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE EACH YEAR AND THOUSANDS THROUGH THE YEARS AS TIME PROGRESSED, WE SHIFTED FROM MIGRANT LABOR TO LOCALS.
MITCHELL'S CANNING SEASON WAS THE FIRST JOB FOR GENERATIONS OF PEOPLE.
AS OUR BUSINESS WOUND DOWN, WE STARTED TO THINK ABOUT WHAT IS THE BEST USE OF OUR PROPERTY.
HARFORD COUNTY VIEWED PERRY, RAYMOND AS A PRIME LOCATION FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DUE TO THE PROXIMITY OF THE RAILROAD, THE BG POWER PLANT SIDE RUN WASTE TREATMENT AND MAJOR HIGHWAYS.
CLOROX PURCHASED FARMLAND OWNED PERRIMAN ROAD AND BUILT THE PLANT IN 1992, RITE AID PURCHASED FARM LAND AND BUILT THE DISTRIBUTION CENTER.
WE BUILT THE CHELSEA ROAD EXTENSION TO PERRIMAN ROAD TO SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT.
AT THE SAME TIME, HARP COUNTY ASKED TO REZONE, APPROXIMATELY 670 ACRES OF R ONE ZONING TO LIGHT INDUSTRY.
WE HAVE KEPT THE ZONING IN MIND.
AS WE HAVE MADE DECISIONS ABOUT OUR PROPERTY.
THE MITCHELL FAMILY HAS BEEN A GOOD PARTNER WITH HARFORD COUNTY.
WE ALLOWED THE COMMUNITY TO USE CANNING HOUSE ROAD AND ULTIMATELY THE COUNTY TOOK OVER THE MAINTENANCE.
WE WORK WITH THE COUNTY ON A LAND SWAP TO PROVIDE MORE WATERFRONT FOR PARAMIN PARK.
WE AGREED TO PROVIDE A UTILITY EASEMENT FOR A 36 INCH WATER SEWER MAIN THAT SERVES THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE INHABITING ABINGTON AND BELAIR.
THE MASTER PLAN FOR PARAMIN TO BE A KEY GROWTH AREA HAS BEEN A HUGE SUCCESS.
THERE ARE 12 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES ON THE PENINSULA THAT PROVIDE THOUSANDS OF JOBS AND MILLIONS IN PROPERTY TAX REVENUE, OUR RECENT HARFORD COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ARTICLE ARTICLE PROCLAIMS, WHY HARFORD COUNTY IS IDEAL FOR GROWING LOGISTICS, OPERATIONS.
EVERY BUSINESS THAT HAS MOVED TO PARAMIN HAS BEEN CELEBRATED BY HARFORD COUNTY AND THE MORATORIUM IS AN ASSAULT ON OUR PROPERTY RIGHTS.
THE PROJECT, THIS BILL TARGETS IS ILLEGAL USE PER COUNTY ZONING REGULATIONS.
THE COUNTY WILL ONLY APPROVE THE PROJECT IF IT MEETS ALL THE REGULATIONS.
NOW IN EFFECT, THE DEVELOPER WILL MAKE THE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS REQUIRED BY THE STATE AND THE COUNTY.
THE GOAL OF THE COMMUNITY GROUP HERE IS TO STOP THE PROJECT, REGARDLESS OF THE CONSEQUENCES LEGISLATION WOULD PENALIZE EXISTING BUSINESSES IN THE AREA BY PREVENTING THEM FROM EXPANDING THEIR BUILDINGS.
AND NO LAND OWNER COULD EVEN BUILD A HOUSE ON THE PENINSULA.
THE MORATORIUM IS BAD POLICY AND SHOULD BE REJECTED.
SHERI RILEY, 1911 PARK BEACH DRIVE.
I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THEIR WILD WILDLIFE.
WE CAN'T WHO CAN'T SPEAK FOR THEMSELVES.
WHEN OUR COUNTY ROADS IS ALREADY AN UNSAFE LEVEL, BUILDING MORE BUILDINGS WHERE MORE TRAFFIC COMES INTO THE COMMUNITY, WE'LL ONLY MAKE THIS EVEN MORE UNSAFE AS WELL AS MORE DANGEROUS EVEN FOR OUR OWN PETS AIR, LAND AND WILDLIFE ARE THE PART OF THE PYRAMID PENINSULA, NOT 30% OF WAREHOUSES THAT ALREADY EXIST IN HARTFORD COUNTY.
AND WITH THIS PROJECT WOULD INCREASE TO 50%.
THAT'S WHY WE'RE STANDING UP FOR OUR RIGHTS AND OUR FURRY AND FEATHERY FRIENDS RIGHTS.
LET'S PROTECT OURSELVES AND PARAMIN WILDLIFE FROM MORE HORRIBLE TRAFFIC, CONGESTION AND FUMES FROM DECREASED AIR QUALITY FROM NOISE POLLUTION, WATER POLLUTION, LIGHT POLLUTION.
THIS DEVELOPMENT COULD LEAD TO ALTERATIONS AND FEEDING AND BREEDING PATTERNS FOR OUR WILDLIFE, WHICH WOULD PROVE DETRIMENTAL TO THE BIRDS.
CONSTRUCTION IS ONE OF THE MOST RESOURCE HUNGRY AND ENVIRONMENTALLY DETRIMENTAL INDUSTRIES IN THE WORLD.
YES, THEY ARE AIR ANIMALS, AIR NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE MADE A HOME IN OUR AREA JUST AS WE HAVE THESE DISTURBANCES WILL DIRECTLY IMPACT THE NATURAL BEHAVIORS OF WILDLIFE.
WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE SUNRISES AND THE SUNSETS ON THE BEAUTIFUL PYRAMID PENINSULA
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TO SEE IN FAMILY OF DEER IN OUR BACKYARD TO SEE AN EAGLES FLY OVER OUR HEADS AND FEEDING THEIR YOUNG.WE EVEN LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING FOX AND POSSUM, WHATEVER ANIMALS THIS PENINSULA BRINGS US.
LET'S DO THE RIGHT THING AND NOT BUILD THE SEVENTH LARGEST MEGA WAREHOUSES IN OUR SMALL QUAINT NEIGHBORHOOD.
MORE TRAFFIC, WITHOUT A DOUBT WILL INCREASE THE LIKELIHOOD OF MORE TRAFFIC AF ACCIDENTS AND DEATHS.
ALL OF THIS LEADS TO A SERIOUSLY NEGATIVE IMPACT ON OUR WILDLIFE.
THESE PROPOSED BUILDINGS COULD MAKE THIS AREA INCAPABLE OF SUPPORTING WILDLIFE.
WE WANT TO SUPPORT THEM BY LIMITED FEW FUEL USAGE BY CONTROLLING POLLUTION, BY PROPERLY DISPOSING OF WAYS TO ELIMINATE POSSIBLE POISONING OF THE ANIMALS.
RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE A LITTER PROBLEM IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
OUR NEIGHBORS GO AROUND AND PICK IT UP TO KEEP OUR NEIGHBORHOOD CLEAN AND NICE.
WHY SHOULD WE PROTECT OUR WILDLIFE? THEY ARE GOD'S CREATURES.
THEY HAVE A PURPOSE JUST LIKE WE DO.
WE WANT TO ENSURE FUTURE GENERATIONS GET TO ENJOY THEM AS MUCH AS WE HAVE.
THEY NEED OUR PROTECTION FROM ENVIRONMENTAL AND HUMAN INFLUENCES TO ENSURE THEIR SURVIVAL PLANTS ARE DEPENDENT ON ANIMALS AND BIRDS FOR THEIR POLLINATION AND SEED DISPERSAL.
THEY NEED OUR HELP FROM HUMANS WHO WANT TO ENCROACH ON THEIR RESOURCES, THE GROWTH OF BUILDINGS, WAREHOUSES, DISTRIBUTION CENTERS IN DANGER, THE WILDLIFE EXISTENCE PERIOD.
LET'S STOP POLLUTING OUR ANIMAL NEIGHBORS AND DO OUR BEST TO PRESERVE AND PROTECT THEM.
AND LET'S REMEMBER THE BEAUTY OF GOD'S CREATION.
LAND IS ONE BEAUTIFUL THAN BUILDINGS.
ANIMALS, AND WILDLIFE ARE MORE VALUABLE THAN AMAZON ORDERS.
WE NEED TO GET NEIGHBORS TO OUR WILDLIFE FRIENDS BY DOING THE RIGHT THING.
MA'AM JUSTIN PICKERING FOLLOWED BY BRITTANY RUSSELL, NICOLE.
MR. PICKERING, AGAIN, JUSTIN PICKERING.
UH, BRITTANY RUSSELL, 1828 PARK BEACH DRIVE.
I'M HERE TO ASK YOU TO VOTE, TO PASS THIS MORATORIUM UNTIL WE HAVE A FULL AND DEEP UNDERSTANDING ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT THAT THIS PROJECT HAS ON OUR FRAGILE ECOSYSTEM.
THIS PROJECT IS PROJECTED TO BRING IN OVER A THOUSAND ADDITIONAL TRUCKS PER DAY, WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING THESE IDLE TRUCKS.
WE KNOW THAT CURRENT MANAGEMENT OVER THE TRUCKS IS A STRUGGLE TO NON-EXISTENT ABERDEEN POLICE DEPARTMENT.
THANK YOU HAS PUT UP SIGNS STATING NO STOPPING OR IDLING YET IT'S STILL HAPPENING.
SO WHAT'S GOING TO CHANGE TO ENSURE THAT THIS PROBLEM IS NOT EXACERBATED.
WHEN THOUSANDS MORE TRUCKS ARE ENTERING OUR PENINSULA, WHO WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR MONITORING THE AIR QUALITY AND ENSURING THE AIR THAT RESIDENTS ARE BREATHING IS NOT TOXIC IN THE SUMMER.
THESE TRUCKS WILL BE SITTING IDEALLY WITH AIR CONDITIONERS RUNNING AND IN THE WINTER, THEIR HEAT DIESEL EXHAUST FUMES CAUSE CORONARY AND ISSUES.
IT'S CARCINOGENIC, POOR AIR QUALITY IS LINKED TO PREMATURE DEATH CANCER AND LONG-TERM DAMAGE TO RESPIRATORY AND CARDIOVASCULAR SYSTEMS. WE ARE LOOKING AT A POTENTIAL.
WE ARE LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY ANOTHER DIESEL DEATHS ZONE.
WELL, THE COUNTY ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR THESE HEALTH CONDITIONS AND PROVIDE MEDICAL COVERAGE FOR THOSE AFFECTED DUE TO THIS INDUSTRIAL PROJECT.
HOW CAN THIS PROJECT POSSIBLY MOVE FORWARD WITH POTENTIALLY DEADLY RESULTS FOR ITS RESIDENTS? THE PENINSULA IS HOME TO THE PAIRING AND WEALTH FIELD ARE THE PROJECTED INFILTRATION POND STRONG ENOUGH TO EQUAL THE WATER WITHDRAWAL.
WE KNOW FROM LARGE AMOUNTS OF EXISTING IMPERVIOUS SURFACES THAT THE MITCHELL FARM PROJECT WILL CAUSE MORE SUBSURFACE WATER TO BE DRAWN FROM OTHER AREAS SUCH AS APG CONTRIBUTING TO ADDITIONAL WELD CLOSURES.
DUE TO CONTAMINATION, THE GROUNDS OF EPG HAVE KNOWN POLLUTANTS, INCLUDING A CURRENTLY MITIGATED TCE PLUME.
THIS ALL THREATENS THE DRINKING WATER APART FOR COUNTY CITIZENS WHO WAS MONITORING THIS.
AND HOW OFTEN IF ALL THE WELLS BECOME CONTAMINATED, WHAT IS THE PLAN TO GET WATER FROM ADDITIONAL SOURCES AND WHO WILL PAY FOR IT? WHAT STEPS ARE BEING TAKEN TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF THE BUSH RIVER FOR YEARS, SEWAGE PIPES WENT DIRECTLY INTO THE RIVER.
THE STORMWATER MANAGEMENT PONDS THAT ARE SLATED TO BE PUT IN BY THE MITCHELL FARM PROJECT WILL NOT FULLY REMOVE PHOSPHORUS AND NITROGEN CAUSING FURTHER POLLUTION TO THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED, CARRYING ALL THE PARKING LOT, CONTAMINANTS OIL GREASE, AND HEAVY METAL DIRECTLY INTO OUR STREAMS AND INTO THE BUSH RIVER.
WOULDN'T IT BE MOST IMPORTANT TO CLEAN UP OUR PREVIOUS MISTAKES BEFORE MAKING NEW ONES WITH ALL OF THESE QUESTIONS ON ANSWERED? HOW COULD WE POSSIBLY VOTE ANYTHING, BUT YES, TO PASS THIS MORATORIUM, THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL WELLBEING OF THE CITIZENS OF THE COMMUNITY MUST TAKE PRECEDENCE OVER PROFITS FROM AN OUT OF
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COUNTY DEVELOPER WHO WOULD FOREVER DESTROY THE FRAGILE ECOSYSTEM OF THE BUSH RIVER.ONCE THE PAYMENT GOES DOWN, IT CAN'T BE UNDONE VOTE TO PASS THIS MORATORIUM SO THAT YOU CAN DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE.
WE KNOW THAT ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS ARE DIRECTLY RELATED TO HUMAN HEALTH.
THERE IS NOTHING, NOT ONE THING THAT IS MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE SAFETY AND WELFARE OF OUR ENVIRONMENT AND OUR CITIZENS.
AND WITH THAT AGAIN, I ASK YOU TO VOTE TO PASS.
MA'AM KEN SHANNON FOLLOWED BY KATE MACDONALD.
I LIVE AT 2 0 4 4 PARK BEACH DRIVING PERMIT.
I'M HERE TO ASK THAT THE COUNCIL PASS BILL NUMBER 22 DASH 0 0 3, TO ESTABLISH A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON NEW BUILDING WITHIN PARAMIN PENINSULA CHAPTER 2 67 OF THE HARTFORD COUNTY CODE.
THE ZONING CODE IS 378 PAGES LONG.
THERE ARE 38 PAGES OF DEFINITIONS.
THERE ARE A LOT OF PLACES IN THAT LARGE DOCUMENT FOR THE UNSCRUPULOUS TO TWIST THE CHAPTERS AND SECTIONS AND WORDS OF THE CODE INTO FORM THAT GIVES THEM AN ADVANTAGE OVER LESS SOPHISTICATED OR PREOCCUPIED PEOPLE WHOSE LIVES WOULD BE IMPACTED BY THE INAPPROPRIATE APPLICATION OF THE CODE.
FORTUNATELY, ON THE FIRST PAGE OF THE ZONING CODE, ITS PURPOSE, AS CLEARLY STATED IT IS TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH, SAFETY, MORALS, AND GENERAL WELFARE OF THE COMMUNITY.
HOWEVER, THE NUMBER AND SIZE OF CURRENT WAREHOUSES AND FREIGHT TERMINALS, PROBABLY EVEN PENINSULA FLIES IN THE FACE OF THAT PURPOSE.
THESE BUILDINGS ARE IN DIRECT CONTRADICTION AND OPPOSITION TO THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND WELFARE OF THE PYRAMID COMMUNITY.
ON THAT FIRST PAGE OF THE ZONING CODE, IT ALSO STATES THAT THE CODE IS DESIGNED TO CONTROL TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON PUBLIC ROADS.
THE ROADS IN PERRYMAN ARE ALREADY TOO CONGESTED CARS TRAVELING FROM THE EXISTING 9.7 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF PERRYMAN WAREHOUSES AND FREIGHT TERMINALS.
THAT'S 39% OF ALL THE LARGE WAREHOUSES IN HARTFORD COUNTY BACK UP ON SUSHI ROAD AT THE ROUTE 40 LIGHT ALL THE WAY HE PASSED ALL STEPHANIE ROAD.
IT TAKES MULTIPLE CYCLES OF THE LIGHT TO GET OFF SUSHI ROAD AT SHIFT CHANGE PAGE ONE OF THE ZONING CODE ALSO SAYS THAT THE CODE IS DESIGNED TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES, INCLUDING THE PRESERVATION OF PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURAL LAND.
MANY ACRES OF PYRAMID FARMS HAVE ALREADY SUCCUMBED BULLDOZERS THAT CLEARED THE LAND FOR EXISTING WAREHOUSES.
THE PROPOSED MITCHELL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT WILL PAVE OVER HUNDREDS, MORE ACRES OF PRODUCTIVE AGRICULTURAL LAND.
IT ALSO SAYS ON PAGE ONE OF THE ZONING CODE THAT IT IS DESIGNED TO PREVENT ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION, BUT THE MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT HAS NOT UPDATED THE SOURCE WATER ASSESSMENT FOR THE PYRAMID WELL FIELD FOR 21 YEARS, SINCE THAT TIME, 8,980,000 SQUARE FEET OF WAREHOUSES AND FREIGHT TERMINALS HAVE BEEN BUILT ON THE PYRAMID PENINSULA.
THE INCREASE IN IMPERVIOUS SURFACE CREATED BY THOSE BUILDINGS, THEIR PARKING LOTS, AND YOUR ROADS HAS NOT BEEN EXAMINED.
HERE'S ONE OF THE ZONING CODE SAYS THAT PROVISIONS OF CODE SHALL NOT BE INTERPRETED.
SO AS TO INTERFERE WITH THE USE OF A PERSON'S HOME, WITH RESPECT TO THOSE USES COMMONLY COMMONLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE ENJOYMENT OF THE HOME.
I EXPECT THAT MEMBERS OF THE PYRAMID COMMUNITY WHO LIVED 100 FEET AWAY FROM THE MITCHELL FARM AND THE PROPOSED 5.2 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF FREIGHT TERMINALS WILL NOT ONLY HAVE THEIR ENJOYMENT OF THEIR HOUSES INTERFERED WITH.
THEY WOULD BE DEVASTATED BY THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
THE MORATORIUM IS NEEDED TO ALLOW TIME TO UNDERSTAND HOW DEVELOPMENT ON PYRAMID PENINSULA CAN BE BROUGHT BACK IN LINE WITH THE PURPOSE AND DESIGN OF THE HARFORD COUNTY ZONING CODE.
PLEASE VOTE FOR BILL 22 DASH 0 0 3 TO ENACT A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON BUILDING ON THE PERMIT OF PENINSULA.
KATE MCDONALD, 2100 PARK BEACH DRIVE.
I'M HERE TONIGHT AND SUPPORTIVE MORATORIUM BILL 2203.
THERE ARE SIGNIFICANT ISSUES WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS MAGNITUDE WITH DEVASTATING SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSEQUENCES.
SO THE COUNTY NEEDS TO TAKE THE TIME AND NOT JUST PUSH THIS DEVELOPMENT THROUGH THE PROCESS, ALLOWING VARIANCES AND LIBERAL INTERPRETATIONS OF THE ZONING CODE, ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE.
NOBODY WANTS TO BE ACCUSED OF IT, BUT BEING THE TARGET OF IT CAN BE DEADLY.
AND THE MARCH 11TH ARTICLE ON THE EGIS, A PROFESSOR FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND COLLEGE PARK SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH CALLED IT CONTAMINATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION STATING THAT THE UNINCORPORATED STATUS OF MEN ALONG WITH ITS DEMOGRAPHIC MAKEUP HAS LED TO DISINVESTMENT AND OVERDEVELOPMENT WITH THE DUMPING OF FREIGHT DISTRIBUTION CENTERS THAT BRING HIGH CONCENTRATIONS, HIGH CONCENTRATED VOLUMES OF DIESEL, TRAFFIC, AND POLLUTION.
THIS IS A FORM OF ENVIRONMENTAL DISCRIMINATION WHEN IT'S CONCENTRATED IN AREAS WITH
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A HIGHER POPULATION OF MINORITY RESIDENTS AND LOWER INCOME HOUSEHOLDS.AFTER THE MEETING LAST WEEK, I ASKED MY HUSBAND WHO HAS A PHD IN CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS AND AS A RESEARCH SCIENTIST TO DO SOME RESEARCH ON THE TOPIC OF DIESEL DEATH ZONES AND SPECIFICALLY DIESEL PARTICULATE MATTER POLLUTION, DIESEL PM, AS IT'S CALLED, IS A SUBSET OF PM.
2.5, WHICH ARE PARTICLES SMALL ENOUGH TO GET DEEP AND TIGHT INSIDE THE LUNGS AND CAUSE A MYRIAD D DEVASTATING AND FATAL HEALTH CONDITIONS.
HE WAS PARTICULARLY CONCERNED ABOUT THE NANOPARTICLE MAGNETIZING FIND STOCK, BUT A FORM OF IRON OXIDE, WHICH CAN BE TOXIC TO THE BRAIN AND HAS BEEN CALLED A CHRONIC AND PERNICIOUS NEUROTOXIN.
COMMON SOURCES OF MAGNETITE PARTICLES INCLUDE IRON IMPURITIES AND BURNING FUEL, ESPECIALLY DIESEL GENERATING HARMFUL REACTIVE OXYGEN SPECIES THAT HAVE LEAD HAVE BEEN LINKED TO ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE.
SO WHEN YOU ADD ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE TO THE POTENTIAL FOR POISONED WATER, LUNG CANCER, COPD, AND ASTHMA, THIS DEVELOPMENT ALONG WITH THE LAST DECADE OF DEVASTATION SERVED ON PARAMIN MEANS WE ARE ALL IN A, FOR MAJOR HEALTH HEALTH ISSUES.
IF THEY'RE NOT ALREADY PRESENT, IT IS INCUMBENT ON HARFORD COUNTY TO TAKE THE TIME TO GET THIS RIGHT, TO KNOW THE FACTS AND CONSEQUENCES OF APPROVING THIS LEVEL OF INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ESTABLISHED RESIDENTIAL AREA ALREADY OVERLOAD RUN WITH DISTRIBUTION CENTERS, TRUCK, TRAFFIC, AND POLLUTION ONCE APPROVED.
IT WILL BE TOO LATE FOR YOU TO UNDO THE INJUSTICE YOU HAVE INFLICTED ON PARAMOUNT.
YOU WILL BE MAKING A DEADLY AND UNJUST SITUATION, MORE DIRE.
THIS MAY BE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR SOME OF YOU, BUT FOR RESIDENTS OF PARAMIN IT'S ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE, ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM, CONTAMINATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.
AND I URGE ANYONE THAT IS WILLING TO PUT THEIR NAME AND SUPPORT OF THIS DEVELOPMENT TO DO THE RESEARCH AND ASK YOURSELF IF IT WERE BEING PROPOSED IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND THREATENING THE HEALTH OF YOUR FAMILY, WOULD YOU SUPPORT IT THEN? I DON'T THINK SO.
AND JUST AS A LITTLE SIDE NOTE, I THINK WE'VE ALREADY SET THE PRECEDENT FOR MORATORIUMS AND HARTFORD COUNTY.
IF IT CAN BE APPROVED IN THE NORTH, IT COULD BE APPROVED IN THE SOUTH.
MA'AM MATT LAUER WAY FOLLOWED BY CHUCK.
UM, MATT LEHRER WAY, UH, 1343 ASTRON ROAD, HANOVER, MARYLAND.
COUNCIL, PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL.
I'M A PARTNER AT CHESAPEAKE REAL ESTATE GROUP COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT COMPANY.
OUR FIRM HAS BEEN BLESSED WITH THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP AND LEASE MANY SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS IN HARTFORD COUNTY, AS DEVELOPERS, BROKERS, PROPERTY MANAGERS, AND CONSULTANTS.
WE'VE DONE OVER 12 PROJECTS AND TRANSACTIONS TOTALING OVER 5 MILLION FEET LEADING TO OVER A THOUSAND NEW JOBS AND OVER 5 MILLION A YEAR IN ANNUAL TAX REVENUE.
THIS CLIENT PROJECT LIST INCLUDES KOHL'S AMAZON XPO, LOGISTICS, CLOROX, AND AGCO, AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY AMONG OTHERS.
ALL OF THESE PROJECTS ARE A HUNDRED PERCENT OCCUPIED AND ARE THRIVING BUSINESS AND EMPLOYMENT CENTERS.
SEVERAL OF THESE ARE NOW OWNED DIRECTLY BY THE COMPANIES THAT OCCUPY THEM, WHO CONTINUE TO MAKE CAPITAL AND BUSINESS INVESTMENTS IN THE COMMUNITY.
THERE ARE TWO TENANTS IN THESE PROJECTS THAT RECENTLY HAD TO EXPAND IN BALTIMORE CITY AND BALTIMORE COUNTY BECAUSE THERE WAS NO EXISTING WAREHOUSE OR DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES AT HARFORD COUNTY SUITABLE FOR THEIR GROWTH.
IT HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE STRATEGY OF OUR FIRM TO PURSUE PROJECTS AND SITES THAT WE CONSIDER MIDDLE OF THE FAIRWAY DEVELOPMENTS.
WE FOCUS ON OPPORTUNITIES THAT ARE PROPERLY ZONED AND ALREADY WELL-POSITIONED FOR INDUSTRIAL AND WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT.
WE DID NOT DEVIATE FROM OUR STRATEGY HERE.
OUR EARLY EVALUATION OF THIS SITE CONFIRMED THAT IT WAS ZONED PROPERLY FOR WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT AND CONSISTENT WITH HARTFORD COUNTY'S MASTER PLAN.
THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED WITHIN THE ENTERPRISE ZONE, WHICH WAS PUT IN PLACE TO ENCOURAGE ECONOMIC GROWTH AND EXPANSION.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED THAT IN 2016, HARFORD COUNTY'S GREATER ABERDEEN, HAVRE DE GRACE ENTERPRISE ZONE WAS UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL SEVEN ZERO WITH NO TESTIMONY FROM THE PUBLIC LATER IN 2016, THE ENTERPRISE ZONE WAS FURTHER EXPANDED ONCE AGAIN, NO TESTIMONY FROM THE PUBLIC AND UNANIMOUS COUNCIL SUPPORT.
LASTLY IN 2017 AND A RESOLUTION PROPOSED BY COUNCILMAN BEULAH, THE ENTERPRISE ZONE WAS FURTHER EXPANDED BY ANOTHER 114 ACRES IN PERRIMAN TO FURTHER INDUSTRIAL GROWTH AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AND ONCE AGAIN, NO TESTIMONY FROM THE PUBLIC AND PASSED WITH UNANIMOUS COUNTY SUPPORT.
WE ALSO RECOGNIZED THAT BULK WAREHOUSE DEVELOPMENT AND, BUT IT'S CONSISTENT WITH OTHER RECENTLY APPROVED, BUILT AND OCCUPIED PROJECTS, NOT ONLY IN HARTFORD COUNTY, BUT IN THE PERRIMAN AREA.
IN FACT, 74% OF THE LAND IMPAIRMENT IS ZONED FOR INDUSTRIAL USE PARAMIN HAS HIGH-SPEED PASSENGER RAIL FREIGHT RAIL, A POWER PLANT, A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, AND APPROXIMATELY 12 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF EXISTING INDUSTRIAL.
IT IS ADJACENT ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND, A MILITARY INSTALLATION THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPING AND TESTING WEAPONS SINCE 1917.
EARLY IN THE PROCESS, OUR DEVELOPMENT TEAM HAD AN ALL HANDS MEETING WITH HARFORD COUNTY AGENCIES TO DISCUSS
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OUR PLAN AND GET EARLY COMMENTS AND THOUGHTS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND THE REVIEWING AGENCIES WERE NOT SURPRISED.THEY SAW THE PLAN AS IT WAS CONSISTENT WITH ZONING AND THE MASTER PLAN.
IT WOULD TYPICALLY BE CONSIDERED BY, RIGHT? THE PLAN WAS PRESENTED AT A COMMUNITY INPUT MEETING AND SUBMITTED TO HARTFORD COUNTY FOLLOWING DAC PROCEDURES.
DURING THIS PERIOD, WE ENGAGED WITH SELECTED MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY TO DISCUSS QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS.
CONCERNS WERE SURROUNDING TRAFFIC ACCESS ENVIRONMENT RELATED TO STORM WATER.
AND WHILE MANY OF THESE SUGGESTIONS ARE NOT REQUIRED BY THE COUNTY.
OUR TEAM TOOK THESE SUGGESTIONS AND REVISE PORTIONS OF OUR PLAN IN SPITE OF THESE EFFORTS AND MORE TREY WITH BEN PROPOSED AT AN EFFORT TO VIOLATE LAND RIGHTS AND PUT A STOP TO A BI-RITE DEVELOPMENT.
MY NAME IS CHUCK AND I'VE LIVED ON THE PERRY AND PENINSULA MY ENTIRE LIFE.
I STAND BEFORE YOU TO PROVIDE TESTIMONY IN SUPPORT OF BILL 22 DASH 0 0 3, TO PLACE A MORATORIUM ON FURTHER BUILDING ON THE PENINSULA.
THIS MORATORIUM WOULD PLACE 150 DAY HOLD ON DEVELOPMENT TO ESTABLISH A FOCUS FOCAL GROUP, TO STUDY ALL THE COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS AND MAKE FURTHER RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE COUNCIL.
ONE CERTAIN RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE FOR THE COUNTY ZONING DEPARTMENT TO DEVELOP A FINER DISTINCTION IN THE ZONING CODE CLASSIFICATIONS TO THE GENERAL TERM, WAREHOUSING THE LAWS AND ORDINANCES AND ZONING RULES OF HARFORD COUNTY HAVE NOT CAUGHT UP TO THE TRUE IMPACT OF THESE MEGA WAREHOUSES HAVE ON OUR QUALITY OF LIFE.
WHEN THE MITCHELL FARM PROPERTY WAS REZONED IN 1997 FROM R ONE TO ALLY, THE ZONING USE CLASSIFICATION OF WAREHOUSING, COMMA, WHOLESALING, AND PROCESSING AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT MEANING TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, A WAREHOUSE WAS NOT DEFINED AS INDIVIDUAL BUILDINGS, THE SIZE OF 30 FOOTBALL FIELDS, AND OVER 2000 TRUCKS ROLLING IN 24 HOURS A DAY, SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.
THESE FULFILLMENT CENTERS SLASH DISTRIBUTION FACILITIES SLASH TRUCKING TERMINALS OPERATE AROUND THE CLOCK AND GENERATE HUGE AMOUNTS OF TRAFFIC, TRUCK, TRAFFIC, NOISE, AIR, AND LIGHT POLLUTION.
MEGA WAREHOUSE DEVELOPERS SHOULD HAVE INCENTIVES TO BUILD IN PLACES NEAR HIGHWAY INTERCHANGES OFF OF , WHERE IT MAKES SENSE AND INCENTIVES TO BUILD.
AND IF THIS INCENTIVES TO BUILD WHETHER TRAFFIC DAMAGES AND DESTROYS OUR COMMUNITIES AS PART OF THIS MORATORIUM, I CALL ON OUR GOVERNMENT TO WORK TOGETHER, TO UPDATE THE LAWS, ORDINANCES, AND ZONING REGULATIONS, TO CATCH UP TO THESE PERVASIVE AND DISRUPTIVE LAND USES THAT HAVE PUT US ALL HERE TODAY.
IT SIMPLY DOESN'T MAKE SENSE THAT OUR ZONING WILL ALLOW INTENDED USES OF FREIGHT DISTRIBUTION CENTERS ON A SMALL PENINSULA, SURROUNDED BY 400 RESIDENTS LOCATED 13 TO 15 MILES FROM THE CLOSEST INTERCHANGE ON A SINGLE TWO LANE COUNTRY ROAD.
THERE MAY BE GREAT BUILDINGS AND WAREHOUSES BUILT BY THE FIRM, BUT THEY NEED TO BE IN THE RIGHT LOCATION.
THE PARAMOUNT PENINSULA JUST SIMPLY IS NOT THE RIGHT LOCATION.
I LEAVE YOU TONIGHT WITH THE COUNTY'S MISSION STATEMENT, WHICH IS TO PROTECT, PROMOTE, AND IMPROVE THE HEALTH, SAFETY, AND ENVIRONMENTAL THIS COUNTY.
IF THIS TRULY IS THE MISSION OF THE COUNTY, YOU MUST ACT TO VOTE YES, TO TOURISTS, MORE REPORTING, TO ENSURE THAT THAT HEALTH, THAT SAFETY, THAT ENVIRONMENT IS PROTECTED AND IMPROVED.
BEFORE YOU DEVASTATE OUR COMMUNITY, WE ASK FOR LEAST 150 DAYS TO FULLY REALIZE THE IMPACT THAT YOU HAVE ON US.
EMMA PELLER FOLLOWED BY SHELLEY NEW ZAN.
I'M HERE TODAY TO ASK YOU TO HELP ME TAKE A SMALL BUT POWERFUL STEP FOR OUR ENVIRONMENT BY VOTING TO PASS BILL 22 DASH 0 0 3.
I DON'T LIVE IN THE PENINSULA.
SO I CAN'T SPEAK ABOUT SOME OF THE SAFETY CONCERNS.
MANY ARE GOING TO DISCUSS AND HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING FOR MONTHS NOW.
HOWEVER, THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS OF THIS MEGA WAREHOUSE COMPLEX WILL AFFECT THE ENTIRE COUNTY AND BEYOND.
I AM 19 YEARS OLD AND I HAVE GROWN UP IN A WORLD FOREVER DAMAGED BY CLIMATE CHANGE.
IT'S AN IMPENDING DOOM, AN EXISTENTIAL THREAT THAT HANGS OVER
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ME AND MY ENTIRE GENERATION.IT WAS THE WORLD THAT WE INHERITED FROM YOUR GENERATIONS.
THE HARTFORD COUNTY THAT I HAVE GROWN UP IN LOOKS PRETTY DIFFERENT FROM THE HARTFORD COUNTY.
YOU GREW UP IN IT'S A LOT LESS GREEN AND IT HAS A LOT MORE PAVEMENT.
I'M AFRAID TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THE WORLD WILL LOOK LIKE, WHAT IT WILL BE LIKE WHEN MY FUTURE CHILDREN GROW UP.
IF WE DO NOT TAKE ACTION TODAY, EVER SINCE WE LEARNED ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, I'VE TRIED TO DO MY PART, REDUCE, REUSE, AND RECYCLE, SHUT OFF THE WATER.
WHEN I'M BRUSHING MY TEETH AND TAKE REASONABLE BAGS INSTEAD OF PLASTIC, I'M DEFINITELY NOT PERFECT, BUT THAT IS THE PART THAT I CAN PLAY.
YOU CAN DO SO MUCH MORE IN YOUR POSITION OF LEADERSHIP IN THIS COUNTY, THE FOLKS WHO LIVE IN MEN DESERVE TO HAVE THEIR ENVIRONMENT, THEIR LAND, AND THEIR RIVER PROTECTED BY YOU.
THEIR CHILDREN DESERVE TO GROW UP WITH EQUALS THAT MAKE THEIR NEST THERE.
THEY DESERVE TO BREATHE FRESH AIR.
AS THEY WALK HOME, INSTEAD OF DIESEL FUMES FROM TRUCK AFTER TRUCK, THEY DESERVE TO DRINK FRESH WATER FROM THE BUSH RIVER, WITHOUT POISONOUS RUNOFF, FROM WAREHOUSE, CONSTRUCTION AND OPERATIONS.
THEY DESERVE TO GROW UP WITH WHAT I HAVE AND HOPE THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO TURN THIS CLIMATE DISASTER AROUND.
YOU CAN HELP THE RESIDENTS OF PYRAMID AND THE ENTIRETY OF THE COUNTY TO PUSH THAT NEEDLE TOWARDS US, FOR PEOPLE OVER PROFITS AND FOR A HEALTHIER, BETTER ENVIRONMENT.
I LIKE TO CLOSE WITH ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES ABOUT THIS CLIMATE CRISIS.
ONLY WHEN THE LAST TREE HAS DIED AND THE LAST RIVER POISONED AND THE LAST FISH CAUGHT.
WILL YOU REALIZE THAT WE CANNOT EAT MONEY? THAT IS WHY YOU MUST VOTE.
I'VE LIVED AT 1812 PARK BEACH DRIVE FOR 24 YEARS IN THE FALL AND WINTER OF 1917.
THE PEOPLE OF MICHAEL'S VILLE, A FORMER TOWN ON THE PENINSULA TO THE EAST OF PERRIMAN WERE INFORMED OF SAD NEWS.
THE LAND THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY GROWN THEIR CROPS, HOSTED A CANNERY AND SERVED AS THEIR HOME WAS TO BE TAKEN BY THE GOVERNMENT TO FORMALITY AND PROVING GROUND.
THE PEOPLE WERE TOLD THAT THEY NO LONGER OWN THE LAND THAT SERVED AS THEIR ANCHOR.
INSTEAD, THEY MUST MOVE TAKING WITH THEM ONLY WHAT THEY COULD CARRY.
THE GOVERNMENT PROMISED TO PAY OWNERS OF THE LAND FOR THEIR PROPERTY.
THIS WAS LITTLE CONSTELLATION TO THE PEOPLE WHO WERE LOSING THEIR SMALL CLOSE KNIT COMMUNITY.
ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND COMPLETELY CHANGED LIFE ON THE PARAMIN PENINSULA AND THE TOWN OF MICHAEL'S VILLE NO LONGER EXISTED IN THE FALL AND WINTER OF 20 21, 104 YEARS LATER, THE PEOPLE OF PARAMIN ALSO DISCOVERED SAD NEWS.
THE OWNERS OF LAND THAT HAD PREVIOUSLY GROWN CROPS, HOSTED A CANNERY AND SERVED AS HOME TO COUNTLESS WILDLIFE WAS BEING SOLD TO A DEVELOPER TO FORM A WAREHOUSE DISTRIBUTION CENTER.
THE PEOPLE WERE TOLD THAT THEY DID NOT OWN THE LAND THAT SERVED AS THEIR ANCHOR.
INSTEAD, THEY MUST MOVE ON AND REALIZE THAT THIS LAND IS DESTINED FOR DEVELOPMENT.
THE WAREHOUSE COMPLEX WILL CHANGE LIFE ON THE PYRAMID PENINSULA.
AS MUCH AS THE FORMATION OF APG DID IN 1917 PARAMIN, AS WE KNOW, IT WILL NO LONGER EXIST.
HERE'S WHERE HISTORY MUST NOT REPEAT ITSELF.
I'M NOT A BIG FAN OF POLITICS, LOBBYISTS AND LAWYERS.
I'D ACTUALLY LIKE ALL OF IT TO JUST GO AWAY.
AND MAYBE YOU CAN, IF YOU WILL PASS THIS BILL, LET'S HIT THE PAUSE BUTTON ON DEVELOPMENT AND PARAMIN, LET'S GIVE ALL THE PARTIES TIME TO RE-EXAMINE THEIR MOTIVES AND THEIR PRINCIPLES.
WHAT IF WE COULD FIND A WAY SO THAT EVERYONE'S GOALS WERE MET? WHAT IF THERE WAS A WAY TO GET THE OWNERS FAIR PAYMENT FOR THEIR LAND AND ALSO PRESERVE IT FARMLAND AND A WILDLIFE HABITAT? WHAT IF THE NOISE FROM DEVELOPERS, LAWYERS, LOBBYISTS ALL FELL AWAY AND COMMON SENSE PREVAILED.
WE JUST NEED VALID INFORMATION AND TIME PROTECT THE PARAMIN PENINSULA VOTE.
MA'AM JANINE BEFORE FOLLOWED BY CRYSTAL YAMMER.
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JANINE LIQOUR 1820 PARK BEACH DRIVE, AND I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF THE MORATORIUM.AS WE LOOK FORWARD TO HARFORD, COUNTY'S 250TH ANNIVERSARY.
LET'S LOOK BACKWARDS AND ASK HOW WELL WE'VE PROTECTED THE PARADISE CAPTAIN, JOHN SMITH AND COUNTERED.
WHEN HE SAILED INTO THE BUSH RIVER IN 1608, THERE IS A V.
THOSE WHO FOLLOWED FORM THE ST GEORGE'S PARISH POSITION CHURCH IN 1671, NEARLY 20 HOUSES OF WORSHIP ARE NOW WITHIN FIVE MILES OF MARYLAND'S OLDEST EPISCOPAL CHURCH AND THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
OUR DIVERSE COMMUNITY REMAINED STRONG IN ITS FAITH.
OUR PRAYER VIGIL THIS PAST SUNDAY IS A TESTAMENT TO OUR COLLECTIVE FAITH.
AND YES, THERE ARE LAWS ON THE BOOKS, BUT LAWS MUST CHANGE.
WE ALL KNOW SLAVERY WAS ONCE LEGAL, THE SLAVE LEGACY OF THE 17 HUNDREDS AND 18 HUNDREDS LINGERS ON IN PARAMIN MASSIVE LAND HOLDINGS BUILT ON SLAVE LABOR CREATED WIDE ECONOMIC GAPS BETWEEN FREE AND ENSLAVED.
AS WEALTH WAS PASSED ON TO FUTURE GENERATIONS.
WHEN LAND WAS TAKEN FOR APG, THE GOVERNMENT PERPETUATED AN UNEQUAL SYSTEM BY BASING COMPENSATION ON RACE WITH AFRICAN-AMERICANS RECEIVING A LESSER VALUE FOR THEIR LAND HARFORD COUNTY'S MASTER PLAN, INTENTIONALLY CONCENTRATED DEVELOPMENT IN POORER AND GREATER MINORITY COMMUNITIES.
AFTER A QUARTER OF CENTURY, SHOULDN'T THE PROMISE BENEFITS OF THE MASTER PLAN BE EVIDENT.
INSTEAD, HARFORD COUNTY STRONG FISCAL POSITION AND BOND RATING HAVE COME AT A COST.
OUR COMMUNITY CITIZENS WISHES HAVE BEEN IGNORED AND RESOURCES WITHHELD RESULTING IN UNSAFE ROADS, INADEQUATE INFRASTRUCTURE AND SCHOOLS, WHICH LAG MORE FLUENT PARTS OF THE COUNTY.
A RECENT ARTICLE IN THE AEGIS DOCUMENTS, THE EVER WIDENING ECONOMIC GAP, 23% MORE AFRICAN-AMERICANS LIVE IN PERRY MEN WHILE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME IS 64% LESS THAN HARTFORD COUNTY.
AS WE APPROACH 250 YEARS OF HARFORD COUNTY HISTORY, I SAY IT'S TIME TO PAUSE ALL PLANS.
EVEN MASTER PLANS NEED PERIODIC REVIEW TO ENSURE THEY'RE ON TRACK.
AND RIGHT NOW JUST LIKE THE RECENT COLD TRAIN DERAILMENT ON THE PENINSULA, THIS PLAN IS OFF TRACK.
ITS DESTRUCTIVE PATH WILL CONTINUE TO ALLOW SLAVE HISTORY TO BE IGNORED AND PAVED OVER RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY OWNERS AND TENANTS RIGHTS TO BE TRAMPLED, PROPERTY DEVALUED, QUIET ENJOYMENT DESTROYED AND FURTHER WIDEN THE ECONOMIC GAP.
WE CAN STOP THIS DERAILED TRAIN.
PLEASE VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS MORATORIUM.
EDDIE MAN NAME AND ADDRESS MY NAME'S CRYSTAL, AMBER 3,104 HOLLYWOOD COURT ABINGTON, MARYLAND.
I'M HERE TO SUPPORT MY LONGTERM FRIEND 25 YEARS WHO HAVE LIVED ON PARK BEACH DRIVE.
I'M HERE TODAY TO ALSO SUPPORT THE APPROVAL OF THE MORATORIUM BILL NUMBER 2203, TO SHARE MY EXPERIENCE AND PLEAD FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION TO MOVE THIS BILL FORWARD.
I WOULD LIKE TO START WITH, FOR THE LAST 25 YEARS OF MY CAREER, I HAVE WORKED HAND IN HAND WITH MARYLAND REGISTERED LICENSED TRANSPORTATION, ENGINEERS, TRAFFIC, ENGINEERS, ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERS, AND STORM WATER MANAGEMENT EXPERTS AND THE TRANSPORTATION AND ENGINEERING INDUSTRY.
WITH THIS EXPERIENCE, I HAVE GAINED KNOWLEDGE AND INSIGHT OF THE DESIGN PROCESS FROM PLEA PRE PLANNING AND CONSTRUCTION AND THE NECESSARY STEPS THAT NEED TO BE CONSIDERED BEFORE EVEN STARTING A DESIGN, THIS PROJECT TYPE SIZE AND LOCATION, ESPECIALLY ON A WATER WATER WATERSHED, MAJOR FACTORS ALWAYS INCLUDE SAFETY AND TRAFFIC, ENVIRONMENTAL AND WATER STORM, WATER MANAGEMENT, NO APP, LOW IMPACT DEVELOPMENT AND BEST PRACTICES THAT THE EPA REQUIRES FOR YOU TO FEDERALLY MANDATE AND YOUR COUNTY WITH THAT, WITH THAT SAID HAVING ONLY THREE MINUTES, I HAVE DECIDED TO GO WITH MY OWN PERSONAL STORY AND SPEAK ON TRAFFIC SAFETY AND WHY PERFORMING AND ACCURATE TRACK TRAFFIC STUDIES AND ANALYSIS
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ARE NECESSARY AND CRUCIAL FOR THE RESIDENTS AND THE COMMUNITY OF PARAMIN.I HOPE YOU THAT YOU WERE REALIZED WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THE BILL.
ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20TH, 2015, AROUND 5:00 PM.
MY 19 YEAR OLD SON BORROWED MY CAR TO GO SHOPPING AT THE HARTFORD MALL.
LIVING IN ABINGDON AVENUE AND ROAD, HE DECIDED TO TAKE THE SUNNI SCENIC ROUTE SAYING A ROAD TAKING 1 52 MOUNTAIN ROAD WITH TWO OLD SOUTH JOPPA ROAD.
THE WIDTH OF OLD JOPPA ROAD IS VERY SIMILAR TO PERRIMAN ROAD AND THERE WAS AROUND IT.
NO SIDEWALKS, NO SHOULDERS, NO RIGHT AWAY, NO ROOM FOR ERROR AROUND 5 20, 20 MINUTES LATER IN A SPLIT SECOND, IT SAID THAT MY SON AND ERROR SLIGHTLY COST CROSS OVER THE DOUBLE LINE ON THIS VERY NARROW ROAD, BEFORE HE COULD EVEN COMPREHEND WHAT WAS HAPPENING AND TAKE CONTROL OF THE STEERING.
HE IMMEDIATELY COLLIDED WITH A 26 FOOT BOX TRUCK AND WASN'T TRAPPED UNDERNEATH THE TRUCK AND HAD TO BE EXTRACTED BY THE JAWS OF LIFE.
HE WAS THEN FLOWN TO SHOCK TRAUMA.
AND WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE HOSPITAL, I WAS TOLD HE SUFFERED THREE BRAIN CONTUSIONS, MULTIPLE INJURIES, AND NEEDLESS TO SAY TWO HOURS LATER, AFTER HE LEFT MY HOME, I HAD TO MAKE THE HARDEST DECISION IN LIFE AND AGREE TO TAKE MY SON OFF LIFE SUPPORT DUE TO THE SIZE, HEIGHT, AND IMPACT OF COLLISION INTO THE SPOT STRUCK.
HE SUSTAINED HORRIFIC INJURIES AND DIDN'T HAVE A SNOWBALL'S CHANCE IN HELL SAYS ARRIVE.
SOMETIMES I CAN'T HELP TO BELIEVE THIS MAY HAVE BEEN AVOIDED.
IF ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC STUDIES AND MEASURES WERE TAKEN IN PLACE AFTER MULTIPLE ACCIDENTS HAVE HAPPENED AND REQUIREMENTS WERE PUT IN PLACE FOR THE CONSTANT HEAVY TRAFFIC MOVING THROUGH OLD JOPPA ROAD, PARTICULARLY THOSE SHORT-CUTTING THROUGH TO GET TO ONE 50 TO ULTIMATELY TO 1 95.
MA'AM I NEED YOU TO BRING YOUR COMMENTS TO A CLUES.
MY POINT IS THAT IT ONLY TAKES A SPLIT SECOND CROSS ERROR, THAT YELLOW LINE NO MATTERS WHO FAULT IT IS.
DON'T THROW PARAMIN UNDER THE TRUCK.
MA'AM BRENDA PATTON FOLLOWED BY FOUR PHILIPS.
JUST TO REALIZE THAT, SORRY, I WASN'T GOING TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN.
UH, MY WIFE AND I ARE IN SUPPORT OF THE MORATORIUM.
UM, I WAS READING OVER THE HARTFORD COUNTY ZONING CODE TODAY AND OUT OF THE PERMITTED USE CHARTS.
UM, NOT PERMITTED IN A LIE ZONING TRUCKSTOPS OR TRUCK TERMINALS, FREIGHT TERMINALS, TOWING BUSINESS, OR STORAGE FACILITIES, SCHOOL, BUS STORAGE, OR COMMERCIAL VEHICLE STORAGE.
UM, THE LAST TIME I SAW THIS, UH, PROPOSED PLAN, IT HAD THOUSANDS OF SPACES FOR COMMERCIAL VEHICLE STORAGE.
SO GIVEN THAT THE PROHIBITED USES THAT I JUST LISTED.
AND THE FACT FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS, PUBLIC SAFETY PERSONNEL HAVE EXPRESSED CONCERN OVER THE PYRAMID PENINSULA OVER ACCESS TO IT.
UH, THE COUNTY STILL CONTINUES TO APPROVE WAREHOUSES AND LIGHT INDUSTRIAL ZONING.
UM, THESE AREN'T REALLY WAREHOUSES.
THAT'S JUST A NICE WAY TO SAY FREIGHT TERMINAL BECAUSE FREIGHT TERMINALS AREN'T PERMITTED.
SO THE MORATORIUM WILL ALLOW STAKEHOLDERS FROM THE COMMUNITY TO COME TOGETHER AND DEFINE WHERE THESE FREIGHT TERMINALS BELONG AND WHAT THE ZONING CODE SHOULD BE.
WHAT SHOULD BE IMPROVED IN THE ZONING CODE TO MAKE SURE THEY DON'T GO IN THE WRONG PLACES.
SO YOU'VE HEARD OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, DOZENS OF REASONS WHY, UM, THIS MORATORIUM IS A GOOD IDEA, BUT IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH, JUST TO REMEMBER, YOU HAVE A ROOM FULL OF VERY ORGANIZED PEOPLE HERE WHO WILL REMEMBER HOW YOU VOTE.
AND ORIGINALLY I CAME HERE TO SUPPORT MY FRIENDS, UM, FROM THE PENINSULA AND I WANT TO SUPPORT THE MORATORIUM, BUT AS I SIT HERE AND I LISTEN TO SOME COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE EARLIER, I WAS REALLY DISTURBED BY HEARING.
THIS IS THE WAY IT USED TO BE.
AND THE PREVIOUS COUNCIL APPROVED THINGS AND THEY PREVIOUS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEES APPROVED THINGS.
IT'S KIND OF DISTURBING BECAUSE IT USED TO BE LEGAL TO OWN SOMEBODY, BUT IT'S NOT BECAUSE PEOPLE SET UP AND PEOPLE DECIDED TO MAKE CHANGE BECAUSE IT WAS WRONG.
AND I SIT HERE AND I LISTENED TO PEOPLE FROM PERRIMAN AND THEY'RE NOT AN OVERLY EMOTIONAL GROUP OF PEOPLE.
THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE PROVIDING YOU WITH DATA AND INFORMATION.
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THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE PROVIDING YOU WITH THEIR PASSION, BUT YET I'M NOT EMOTIONAL SIDE AND GIVING YOU THE FACTS.WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE WATER IN THE COUNTY, 30% OF THE WATER IS COMING FROM THE PENINSULA.
I DIDN'T KNOW THAT AS A COUNTY MEMBER, I HAVE SAT HERE AND I HAVE LEARNED SO MUCH ABOUT MY COUNTY AND SO MUCH ABOUT WHAT YOU ALL CAN DO TO HELP US.
IF YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT THE COUNTRY'S GOING THROUGH WIDE ABOUT DC AND HOW THEY'RE HANDLING THINGS.
AND EVERY TIME I ASKED SOMEBODY, WHAT CAN WE DO? WHAT CAN WE DO AS A COMMUNITY? WHAT CAN WE DO AS A COUNTRY TO STAND UP FOR WHAT WE BELIEVE IN PEOPLE? SEE IT STARTS AT THE COUNTY.
WE ARE THE COUNTY HAVING TO FIGHT FOR A RIGHT TO STAND UP FOR OURSELVES.
THEY'RE ASKING FOR 150 DAYS TO REEVALUATE, TO EVALUATE WHETHER OR NOT THIS REALLY IS A POSITIVE ECONOMIC IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY.
IT HAS NO POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITY WHATSOEVER BECAUSE YOU'RE HAVING TO BUS PEOPLE INTO WORK AT THESE PLACES BECAUSE THE COMMUNITY DOESN'T EVEN WANT TO WORK THERE BECAUSE THEY DON'T PAY.
WHY CAN'T WE FOCUS ON THINGS LIKE GOOD ROADS.
I TALKED TO THE, UH, PRESIDENT AT HARTFORD COMMUNITY COLLEGE THE OTHER DAY.
AND WHAT DID SHE SAY? SHE HAS TROUBLE GETTING PEOPLE FROM EDGEWOOD JOPPA AND PAIRING THEM TO THE COLLEGE BECAUSE THE TRANSPORTATION IS SO BAD.
WE NEED TO FOCUS ON OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THE OTHER THINGS IN THE COMMUNITY.
BEFORE WE CAN BEGIN TO DEVELOP AREAS THAT SHOULDN'T BE DEVELOPED.
WE NEED TO REALIZE THE IMPACT THAT THIS, THIS, THIS BUILDING IS GOING TO HAVE ON PEOPLE'S HOMES.
DO, IS IT GOING TO AFFECT BUSINESSES COMING IN? I DON'T THINK SO.
BUSINESSES ARE GONNA WANT TO COME INTO A COMMUNITY THAT PROTECTS ITS OWN A COMMUNITY THAT WORRIES ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT AND A COMMUNITY THAT LISTENS TO WHAT PEOPLE HAVE TO SAY.
IT'S 150 DAYS, GIVE THEM 150 DAYS TO RESEARCH AND COME UP WITH SOME SORT OF BETTER SOLUTION.
I APOLOGIZE IN ADVANCE FOR THE LAST NAME HERE WITH MCQUAID FOLLOWED BY STACY STONE FOR THE RECORD.
COUNCIL PRESIDENT MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, AGAIN WITH MCQUAIG ON THE VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT FOR CHESAPEAKE REAL ESTATE GROUP IN HANOVER, MARYLAND.
IN MY ROLE, I'M TASKED WITH HELPING NAVIGATE THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS.
IT'S AGREED, UH, WITHIN OUR INDUSTRY THAT THE MOST CHALLENGING PART OF THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS IS OBTAINING COUNTY AND STATE APPROVALS FOR ANY GIVEN PROJECT.
THIS CHALLENGE IS DUE SOLELY TO THE RIGOROUS STANDARDS AND REGULATIONS CREATED TO ENSURE THAT A PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT CAN BE MET WITH ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES, OTHERWISE REFERRED TO AS INFRASTRUCTURE AND THAT THE DEVELOPMENT MINIMIZES ITS IMPACT ON VALUABLE NOW, NATURAL RESOURCES, BILL 22, 3 SURMISES THAT ALLOW AN ADDITIONAL DEVELOPMENT ON THE PYRAMID PENINSULA WITHOUT CONSIDERATION OF THE SAFETY OF PYRAMIDS WELLS VEHICLE ACCESS AND PRESERVATION OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES IS MISGUIDED AS SUCH.
THE BILL IMPLIES THAT THERE'S AN INADEQUATE APPROVAL PROCESS.
THAT'S CURRENTLY CARRIED OUT BY HARTFORD COUNTY AND THE STATE OF MARYLAND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
THERE ARE 19 DISTINCT COUNTY AND STATE AGENCIES THAT REVIEW A DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION TODAY.
IF I HAD MORE THAN THREE MINUTES, I WOULD LIST THEM ALL.
BUT THESE AGENCIES, WHICH STAFF THOUSANDS OF CAREER PROFESSIONALS ARE TASKED WITH REVIEWING A PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS CONFORMANCE WITH THE REGULATIONS THAT SPECIFICALLY ADDRESS ISSUES SUCH AS THE IMPACT ON PYRAMID WELL FIELD, THE VEHICULAR AND PEDESTRIAN INFRASTRUCTURE, THE PRESERVATION OF THE ENVIRONMENT, AND MANY, MANY MORE CONSIDERATIONS BILL 22, 3 DOESN'T RAISE A SINGLE TOPIC THAT ISN'T ALREADY CONSIDERED IN THOROUGHLY VETTED THROUGH THE EXISTING PROCESS OF DEVELOPMENT PLAN REVIEW THAT WE HAVE TODAY, BILL 22, 3 PROPOSALS TO ESTABLISH A STUDY GROUP TO EVALUATE FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IMPACT ON THE PENINSULA.
YET ALL THE PROPOSED STUDY GROUP REPRESENTATIVES LISTED IN THIS BILL WERE ALREADY INVOLVED IN THE APPROVAL PROCESS WE HAVE TODAY.
THIS BILL DOESN'T BENEFICIALLY CHANGE THE AGENCIES OR THE STAKEHOLDERS INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS.
THE ONLY REAL CHANGE PROPOSED IS TO EXCLUDE THE APPLICANT WHO IS SEEKING APPROVALS BILL 22, 3 FAILS TO PROPOSE ANY MEANINGFUL CHANGE TO THE CURRENT REVIEW PROCESS.
EITHER IN SUBSTANCE OF THE TOPIC, STUDIED WAR, WHO THEY ARE STUDIED BY THE BILL, SIMPLY HALTS THE CURRENT PROCESS TO REPLACE IT WITH A DUPLICATIVE PROCESS
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AS SUCH, IT'S DIFFICULT TO ASCERTAIN THE VALUE PROPOSAL OF THIS BILL.IT SEEMS ONLY DESIGNED TO STOP A SINGLE LANDOWNER FROM EXERCISING, ITS CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED LAND RIGHTS.
I ASK THAT YOU CONSIDER WHETHER THIS BILL WILL CREATE ANY POSITIVE, NECESSARY CHANGE TO THE CURRENT DEVELOPMENT REVIEW PROCESS, OR IF IT'S SIMPLY UNDERMINES THE LAWFUL PROCESS WE HAVE TODAY TO STOP A SINGLE PROJECT.
UH, STACY STONE, 2106 PARK BEACH DRIVE PARAMIN AS A LICENSED CIVIL ENGINEER IN THE STATE OF MARYLAND WHO DESIGNS ROADWAYS.
IT IS MY JOB TO ENSURE THAT THE PROJECTS THAT I WORK ON ARE DESIGNED IN A SAFE MANNER AND MEET THE NEEDS OF THE TRAVELING PUBLIC.
I CAN SAY IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS THAT THE ROADWAY SYSTEM, AS IT STANDS IN PYRAMID RIGHT NOW DO NOT, DOES NOT MEET THESE INDUSTRY STANDARDS OF SAFETY AND EFFICIENCY OF MOVEMENT.
THE PRIMARY ROUTE INTO PARAMIN MARYLAND, 1 59 OR PERRIMAN ROAD IS CURRENTLY NOT DESIGNED FOR THE TRAFFIC THAT IS ON IT TODAY.
UH, IT IS FAILING AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE PROJECT AND THE PATCHES THAT ARE DONE BY THE STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION ARE NOT FIXED.
WE ARE ASKING WITH THIS MORATORIUM, THAT TIME IS MADE TO EVALUATE ALL OF THE IMPACTS THAT THESE, THIS ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC IS GOING TO DO ON THE PEPPERMINT PENINSULA.
SO LOW HISTORY IN 2001, TRANSPORTATION STUDY WAS DONE FOR PYRAMID, BUT THE NECESSARY, THE NEEDED ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS IN 2001 WERE TOO EXPENSIVE FOR THE COUNTY AND THE STATE OF MARYLAND TO FUND YET.
AN INFLUX OF WAREHOUSES CONTINUED WITH ONLY MINOR IMPROVEMENTS ON THE PYRAMID PENINSULA PER THE COUNTY'S 2016 MASTER PLAN CALLS FOR A QUARTER CAPACITY STUDY AND LAND PRESERVATION STUDY.
YES, SIX YEARS LATER, THESE STUDIES HAVE NOT BEEN DONE PER THE 2016 MASTER PLAN.
SO IS IT THE SAFE AND EFFICIENT MOVEMENT OF FREIGHT IS PRIORITIZED AND IT RECOMMENDS CONSTRUCTION OF A FREIGHT TRAFFIC ROAD IMPAIRMENT.
AND SPECIFICALLY THE CONNECTION TO SEVEN 15 IS NEEDED FOR SAFETY OR MORE EFFICIENT MOVEMENT OF THE TRUCK TRAFFIC.
YET THE DESIGN OF THIS CONNECTION SIX YEARS LATER HAS JUST BEGUN THE 2016 MASTER PLAN CALLS FOR A PARKING STUDY NEAR THE MARYLAND 5 43 AND 9 95 INTERCHANGE.
YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THERE, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S GOING IN THERE, IT'S A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT.
I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT YOU VOTE ON BILL 22, 3.
I HAVE DETERMINED THAT THIS BILL IS NECESSARY SO THAT THE PROPER STUDIES THAT WERE NEEDED PER THE COUNTY MASTER PLAN ARE PUT INTO PLACE.
THIS TIME IS NEEDED AND IT'S NECESSARY AND IT WILL MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
MA'AM THE MADDENS FOLLOWED BY SHARON WARNICK.
MA'AM LEAH MADDIX TESTIFYING A FAVOR OF BILL 2203.
I MEAN, I KNOW IT'S THE ONLY, LIKE I APPRECIATE THAT ADDRESS.
1700 CHURCH POINT COURT PYRAMID.
I SPEAK ABOUT TIME AS PART OF MY SERVICE AS A CAPTAIN WITH THE MARYLAND STATE POLICE, I LEARNED VALUABLE LESSONS ABOUT TIME.
FIRST I LEARNED ABOUT THE GOLDEN HOUR.
THE GOLDEN HOUR IS THE PERIOD OF TIME IMMEDIATELY AFTER A TRAUMATIC INJURY DURING WHICH THERE IS THE HIGHEST LIKELIHOOD THAT PROMPT MEDICAL AND SURGICAL TREATMENT WILL PREVENT DEATH.
CHIP RILEY SPOKE EARLIER ABOUT HOW THE EXISTING INDUSTRIALIZATION ON THE PYRAMID PENINSULA HAS CAUSED REDUCTION AND RESPONSE TIMES FOR PEOPLE NEEDING HELP ON THE PENINSULA.
THE INCREASE IN RESPONSE TIMES IMPACTS THE GOLDEN HOUR AND PUTS PEOPLE AT RISK.
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I LEARNED THAT IDLING DIESEL TRUCKS ARE BAD FOR THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE HEALTH OF HUMANS.WHILE WE TROOPER SPENT TIME ON ENFORCING IDLING LAWS, WE ALL KNEW WE WERE SPREAD TOO THIN TO MAKE MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE WITH ENFORCEMENT ALONE.
WE KNEW TIME PUT INTO EDUCATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PLANNING WERE MORE IMPORTANT TO PROTECT THE PUBLIC.
THIS BILL WILL GIVE THE COUNCIL TIME TO THINK ABOUT THE OVER INDUSTRIALIZATION OF PYRAMID.
FINALLY, I LEARNED FROM STATE POLICE EXPERIENCE HOW A SPLIT SECOND COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN WHETHER SOMEONE LIVES OR DIES ON OUR ROADS.
A MAN GLANCES DOWN TO REACH FOR HIS SUNGLASSES ON A SUN BLINDING ROAD.
HE LOOKS UP TO SEE THE REAR OF A SLOW MOVING TRUCK TOO LATE.
HE HITS THE BRAKES HARD PROPANE TANK IN THE BACK OF HIS PICKUP GOES AIRBORNE FLYING INTO THE PASSENGER COMPARTMENT AND CRUSHING THE CAR SEAT, HOLDING HIS NOW DEAD INFANT SON A ROAD, JUST LIKE THE ONES ON PYRAMID I HAD BEEN TO DOZENS OF JOB-RELATED FUNERALS.
AND THAT ONE WAS PARTICULARLY BAD.
A WOMAN DRIVING HOME FROM WORK NODS OFF FOR JUST LONG ENOUGH TO CROSS THE CENTER LINE INTO A PATH OF AN UNCOMMON SEMI-TRUCK.
IT TOOK US SOME TIME TO PICK UP ALL THE PIECES OF HER SHATTERED SKULL TRUCKS AND CARS DON'T MIX.
THE COMBINATION IN PARAMIN IS ALREADY DANGEROUS AND MANY WAREHOUSES ARE NOT YET ONLINE.
YOU ALL NEED TIME TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE IMPACTS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION.
THIS MORATORIUM GIVES THE COMMUNITY, THE COUNTY AND THE COUNCIL A FEW MORE MONTHS OF TIME TO FULLY CONSIDER A VERY IMPORTANT CHANGE FOR MERA PARAMIN AND HARFORD COUNTY NESTLING INDUSTRY AMONG NEIGHBORHOODS SETS A BAD PRECEDENT.
WE DON'T NEED ON OUR WATCH FOR ALL THESE REASONS.
HI, IT'S SEAN WARNICK FOR THE RECORD.
NOT SHARON, EVEN THOUGH LADY CORRECTED IT WHEN I WALKED IN.
UM, SO I COME BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING TO ASK ONE SIMPLE FAVOR.
AFTER ALL IT'S A SMALL WORLD IN THE GRAND SCHEME OF THINGS, THIS REALLY IS A SMALL PROJECT, ALTHOUGH TO US AND EVERYONE INVOLVED IN IT, IT'S IMMENSE.
THE OTHER PEOPLE IN MY COMMUNITY, THE ONES OUTSIDE OF IT MADE THE EFFORT WILL PRESENT YOU WITH LOTS OF FACTS AND REASONS AS TO WHY THIS PROJECT SHOULD NOT GO ON.
I CAN LOOK UP FACTS ALL DAY LONG AND MAYBE NOT DO SOME OF THE CALCULATIONS THEY CAN, BUT I COULD PRESENT THEM JUST THE SAME.
I SIMPLY WOULD ASK YOU TO DO SOMETHING THAT I CAN'T HELP, BUT DO.
AND THIS JOB THAT YOU'VE CHOSEN TO TAKE ON, ALTHOUGH YOU ALL SEEM TO ENJOY IT BECAUSE EVERY ONE OF YOU SEEM TO JUST KEEP SEEKING AND OTHER OFFICE TO CONTINUE IN THE POLITICAL REALM.
I KNOW YOU ALL START OFF DOING IT BECAUSE YOU CARE AND YOU WANT TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, BUT I'VE ALWAYS FELT THAT PEOPLE IN THE PUBLIC OFFICE LOSE THAT ONE THING THAT STARTS THEM ON THAT PATH.
I CANNOT BE IN YOUR POSITION BECAUSE I'M TOO EMPATHETIC.
AND EVEN WHEN THEY DON'T SHOW OUTRIGHT SIGNS, I THINK ABOUT THEIR STRUGGLES AND IT HURTS ME AS WELL.
SO OFTEN THINGS IN THIS WORLD GET LOST IN A WHIRLWIND OF MONEY, IN THE SEEKING OF POWER.
LOOK AT THE CURRENT SITUATION, RUSSIA AND UKRAINE, THE SOLDIERS ARE RUNNING HOME TO THEIR FAMILIES BECAUSE THEY CARE AND THEY FEEL LIKE WHAT THEY'RE DOING IS WRONG YET THEY CONTINUE TO DO SO BECAUSE IT'S THEIR JOB AND THEIR BOSS DOESN'T CARE HOW THEY FEEL ABOUT IT.
HE JUST WANTS THE MONEY IN THE POWER.
A FEW WEEKS AGO, I STOPPED TO HELP SOMEONE CHANGE A TIRE BECAUSE I CARE GUY SAID HE WAS THERE FOR OVER TWO HOURS SITTING ON THE SIDE OF THE ROAD, NORTHERN HARFORD COUNTY.
I GUESS THE PEOPLE THAT DROVE BY IN THAT TIMEFRAME JUST DIDN'T CARE.
A FEW MONTHS AGO, I HELPED A FELLOW TEAM OF TRUCK DRIVERS GET UNSTUCK FROM THE SNOW BECAUSE I CARED.
THEY HAD DUG THE TRACTOR TIRES INTO HOLES THAT WERE A THIRD OF THE HEIGHT OF THE TIRE, AND THEN STARTED PUTTING PIECES OF PALETTE UNDER IT TO TRY AND GET TRACTION.
THEY TOLD ME THEY ONLY BEEN ON THE ROAD FOR SIX MONTHS AS A TEAM WITH THIS GIANT COMPANY IN THIS PART OF THE COUNTRY AND NEVER IN THE SNOW BIG COMPANIES LIKE THEIRS, TEND NOT TO CARE.
I'VE ONLY LIVED IN THIS COMMUNITY OF PAIRING THEM FOR JUST DIFFERENT TWO YEARS.
AND I ALREADY HAVE PLANS ADMITTED TO MOVE IN ABOUT FIVE, BUT I'M HERE TONIGHT TO FIGHT FOR WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THIS COMMUNITY.
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I CARE ABOUT MY FELLOW COMMUNITY MEMBERS.I CARE ABOUT THE WILDLIFE THAT LIVES THERE CARE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE LAND THAT IS NOT ONLY A COMMUNITY MEMBER, BUT A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF HARFORD COUNTY.
WE FINALLY COME TO REALIZE AS A SOCIETY, HOW IMPORTANT MENTAL HEALTH IS THAT THE HUMAN RACE.
SO HOW DO YOU THINK FIGHTING THIS FIGHT AND POSSIBLY DEALING WITH THIS DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO WEIGH ON OUR MENTAL HEALTH.
DO YOU CARE? DO YOU THINK THAT THE DEVELOPER STANDS TO MAKE MILLIONS OFF OF THIS CARES ABOUT OUR MENTAL HEALTH CARES ABOUT OUR PROPERTY VALUE.
IT'S OBVIOUS THEY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE ENVIRONMENT, BUT DO YOU CARE? I JUST ASK YOU TO MAKE THE RIGHT CHOICE FOR THIS PROPOSAL.
NOT ONLY BECAUSE THE FACTS PRESENTED MAKES SENSE, BUT BECAUSE YOU ALSO FOR YOUR COMMENTS TO A CLOSE SIR.
BUYER'S FOLLOWED BY ELLEN AND NELLY.
I LIVE ON 1 6, 0 3 PERRIMAN ROAD.
I'VE BEEN HARFORD COUNTY RESIDENT.
MY FATHER WAS A POLICE OFFICER THERE FOR OVER 20 YEARS.
I GRADUATED FROM HAMBURGERS HIGH.
I'VE WORKED ON A PROGRAM AS A CHEMIST FOR 33 YEARS.
I MOVED TO PARAMIN BECAUSE IT WAS AN AFFORDABLE PLACE TO LIVE.
I'VE RAISED THREE KIDS THERE WHO ALL GRADUATED FROM ABERDEEN HIGH SCHOOL, ALL THREE ENGINEERS.
NOW I HAVE CALLED THIS RURAL AREA OF THE COUNTY, MY HOME FOR OVER 20 YEARS, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MY KIDS ALSO ENJOY IT.
WAR A PART OF THIS COUNTY, JUST LIKE I HAVE IN PARAMIN PRESERVE OUR RURAL HERITAGE.
WE HEAR THAT A LOT AS THE CAMPAIGN SLOGAN IS BEING USED NOW IN THIS LAST ELECTION CYCLE, IT'S SIMPLE AND POLITICIANS KNOW IT'S WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR.
WELL, WE DON'T HEAR THAT SLOGAN IS PRESERVE OUR RURAL HERITAGE.
AS LONG AS YOU LIVE IN THE RIGHT ZIP CODE, PRESERVE OUR RURAL HERITAGE.
AS LONG AS YOU'RE MEETING INCOME IS HIGH ENOUGH PRESERVE OUR RURAL HERITAGE AS LONG AS YOU KNOW THE RIGHT PEOPLE.
NOW, DOES ANYBODY REMEMBER WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN OUR COUNTRY IN NOVEMBER? I CERTAINLY DO CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS HERE WERE FULL OF ARGUMENTS OVER A HEALTH COMMISSIONER.
WE WERE ARGUING ABOUT MASKS COVID DEATHS, HIGH HOSPITAL, REACHING CRITICAL LEVELS.
PEOPLE, TELEWORKING COUNTY AND STATE OFFICES CLOSED.
IMAGINE MY SURPRISE WHEN THAT SAME NOVEMBER, I'M TRYING TO DECIDE WHETHER TO HAVE THANKSGIVING DINNER, NOT BECAUSE THE LATEST COVID SURGE.
I GET A CERTIFIED LETTER GIVING ME MY FIRST INTRODUCTION INTO THE DEATH STAR DEVELOPMENT.
NOW I ASKED THE PEOPLE HERE TONIGHT.
DO YOU THINK THIS GROUP OF WELL-FUNDED DEVELOPERS WERE JUST FINALLY ABLE TO SWING BY THE POST OFFICE TO GET THOSE LETTERS IN THE MAIL? WHERE DO YOU THINK THEY WERE USING BOTH THE HOLIDAYS AND THE SINGLE DEADLIEST EVENT OF OUR LIFETIME? WHETHER IT'S A COMPANY TURMOIL AND CHAOS AS COVERED A FAST TRACK, THIS PROPOSAL, HOPING WE'D ALL BE CONCERNED ELSEWHERE.
BY THE TIME OUR LIVES GOT BACK TO NORMAL, THE BULLDOZERS WOULD ALL BE WROTE ROLLING ACROSS THE FIELDS.
IF THIS PROPOSAL IS SO ATTRACTIVE, WHY THE REPREHENSIBLE TIMING? I ASKED THE COUNCIL TO USE THIS MORATORIUM AS A PAUSE THAT IS DESIGNED TO BE A PAUSE WHERE YOU CAN RE-LOOK AT SOME OF THE REAL PROBLEMS THAT THE PAST 12 WEEKS OF TESTIMONY HAVE SHOWN.
JUST LAST WEEK, I SPOKE ABOUT THE WELL WATER I HAVE IN MY HAND, A DOCUMENT FROM THE EPA OUTLINING OVER 50 TOXIC THAT HAVE ALREADY LEACHED INTO THE GROUNDWATER FROM THE MICHAEL'S VILLE LANDFILL, JUST OVER THE LINE ON APG.
THIS CHANGE TO THE AQUIFER RECHARGE AREA IS NOT A MOMENTARY THING.
IF THIS GOES THROUGH IT IS FOREVER AND COULD CREATE A PROBLEM THAT CAN LAST FOR GENERATIONS.
WOULDN'T IT BE BETTER TO MAKE SURE THE RIGHT PEOPLE ARE BROUGHT IN FROM THE RIGHT ANSWER AGENCIES TO ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS WHILE WE HAVE THE TIME.
REMEMBER IT'S NEVER TOO LATE TO DO THE RIGHT THING.
IS YOUR FATHER DAVE? YES, SIR.
I HAVE A QUESTION I WANT, WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU WOULD DO IF A LOVED ONE WAS DIAGNOSED WITH CANCER, WHAT'D YOU DO EVERYTHING THAT YOU COULD TO PROMOTE A CURE, WHICH YOU PROVIDE SUPPORT AND PRAY FOR A HEALTHY OUTCOME, OR WOULD YOU IGNORE THE CANCER? WOULD YOU SIT BACK AND ALLOW THE CANCER TO GROW AND SPREAD? THE PERRY? MEN, PENINSULA IS RIDDLED WITH CANCER.
IT IS CURRENTLY CONTAINED, BUT SIGNIFICANTLY IMPACTING QUALITY OF LIFE.
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OVER THE PAST FEW MONTHS, YOU HAVE HEARD MANY PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF HOW THE WAREHOUSE CANCER HAS AFFECTED THE LIVES OF THOSE THAT LIVE THERE.WE CANNOT ALLOW THIS CANCER TO SPREAD.
THE CONSEQUENCES WILL BE UNFORGIVING.
THE CANCER IS NOT JUST AFFECTING THE RESIDENTS OF THE PYRAMID PENINSULA.
YOU MUST CONSIDER THE POLLUTION OF THE DRINKING WATER SHARED BY THE ENTIRE COUNTY.
THE POLLUTION OF RECREATIONAL AREAS SHARED BY THE ENTIRE COUNTY.
THIS CANCER IS NOT YOUR FAULT.
THE CANCER IS HERE DUE TO HISTORICAL POOR DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND DISREGARD FOR THE SOUTHERN PORTION OF THE COUNTY, THE COUNTY, YOU DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO CORRECT PAST MISTAKES.
WE ARE ASKING FOR HELP, A MORATORIUM TO STUDY THE EFFECTS OF THIS CANCER IS CRITICAL WITHOUT INTERVENTION.
THERE IS SO MUCH WRONG WITH THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF OVER 700 PRISTINE ACRES OF FARMLAND ON THE PYRAMID PENINSULA, LISTEN TO THE CITIZENS OF HARFORD COUNTY ENGINEERS, CITING INFRASTRUCTURE IN ADEQUACY, ENVIRONMENTALIST'S CONNECTING DEVELOPMENT TO DISASTROUS OUTCOMES, HOMEOWNERS, HEARING LOSS OF VALUE OF THEIR BIGGEST ASSET.
SENIOR RESIDENTS, PRAYING THAT LIFE SAVING EMERGENCY SERVICES WILL NOT BE DELAYED FAMILIES WANTING A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR THEIR CHILDREN TO LIVE IN PLAY NATURE.
LOVERS BAGGING THAT THIS FRAGILE ECOSYSTEM IS NOT FURTHER DISTURBED.
IF THIS WERE YOUR LOVED ONE, WHAT WOULD YOU DO? PLEASE STOP THE SPREAD.
WAIT, FOLLOWED BY STORY PIERCE.
AND I AM ALSO THE CHAIR OF THE SAVE ABINGTON WOODS COALITION.
I'M HERE TONIGHT TO SPEAK IN SUPPORT OF BILL 22 DASH THREE, THE MORATORIUM BILL.
BUT I ALSO WANT TO MENTION SINCE I'M HERE AND FINALLY GETTING TO SEE THE CHESAPEAKE REAL ESTATE GROUP AND WESTPORT DEVELOPERS FOR THE FIRST TIME THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO THEM MULTIPLE TIMES IN CERTIFIED MAIL LETTERS, PHONE CALLS, AND HAVE NEVER RECEIVED A REPLY.
UM, WE HAVE ASKED THEM TO MEET WITH US TO TALK ABOUT, UM, TO TALK ABOUT PRESERVING ABINGTON WOODS, TO SELL THE PROPERTY FOR A FAIR PRICE SO THAT THE COMMUNITY THAT LIVES, THE NEIGHBORS THAT LIVE AROUND ABINGTON WOODS COULD GET THE SAME KIND OF RESPECT.
YOU KNOW, THAT YOU GUYS WHO ARE FIGHTING FOR PERRY, MEN COULD ALSO GET, UM, FUNDING IS AVAILABLE TO PURCHASE THE PROPERTY.
AND YET THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT THESE GENTLEMEN HAVE EVEN BEEN WILLING TO CONSIDER.
YOU KNOW, YOU WERE KIND ENOUGH TO WRITE TO THE OWNER AND THE DEVELOPER AND TO ASK THAT THEY JUST CONSIDER AND HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH US ABOUT THE GOAL OF PRESERVATION, WHICH IS WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS.
AND THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DID NOT EVEN RESPOND TO YOUR LETTER ALSO.
SO MOVING ON TO PYRAMID, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT THE BILL'S GOALS OF PRODUCTIVE PROTECTING HARFORD, COUNTY'S WATER SUPPLY, PROTECTING THE ENVIRONMENT, PROTECTING PUBLIC ROAD SAFETY AND REPRESENTING THE WISHES OF THE CITIZENS ARE EXTREMELY IMPORTANT GOALS.
I HOPE THAT MY REPRESENTATIVE, COUNCILMAN GR GIORDANO AND ALL OF YOU WILL VOTE FOR THIS NEXT MONTH.
I AM NOT ANTI-DEVELOPMENT, BUT I AM FOR DEVELOPMENT THAT IS WELCOMED BY THE COMMUNITY REPRESENTATIVES WHO WON'T REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY NEED TO BE REPLACED.
UM, I DO HAVE THREE CONCERNS ABOUT THE BILL, HOWEVER THAT I JUST WANT TO COMMENT ON.
UM, I HOPE THAT THE BILL MIGHT BE AMENDED TO ADD ASSESSMENT OF THE CURRENT IMPACTS TO THE WELL FIELD OF THE WAREHOUSES THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN CONSTRUCTED.
SO THERE IS A BASELINE SHOULD THE MITCHELL PROPERTY ULTIMATELY
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BE CONSTRUCTED? SECONDLY, SOME PERMIT APPLICATIONS HAVE ALREADY BEEN SUBMITTED FOR THE MITCHELL PROPERTY.IF THE BILL IS APPROVED, IF THIS MORATORIUM BILL IS APPROVED IN APRIL, IT WILL NOT TAKE EFFECT UNTIL JUNE.
THIS ALLOWS FOR AN ADDITIONAL THREE MONTHS FROM NOW FOR SUBMISSION OF PERMIT APPLICATIONS.
WHY WAIT? I HOPE THAT BY HAVING THE 150 DAY MORATORIUM AND IN NOVEMBER, INSTEAD OF SEPTEMBER, THAT THIS IS NOT MOTIVATED BY THE NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.
UM, AND I'M ABOUT OUT OF TIME.
UH, MY NAME IS TORY PIERCE ADDRESS FIVE SOUTH MAIN STREET, BEL AIR COUNCIL, PRESIDENT MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, UH, BILL 2203 SUGGESTS THAT CURRENT LAWS DON'T ADEQUATELY ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION OR ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ON THE BUSH RIVER AND THE WET PARENTHOOD WELL FIELD.
AND I'M HERE AS A PRACTICING CIVIL ENGINEER FOR THE PAST 35 YEARS TO SHARE WITH EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM, THE LAYERS OF REGULATION THAT ALREADY EXIST, THAT A OVERLAPPED ON ANOTHER TO ADDRESS ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS.
FIRST UNDER CURRENT LAW, HARFORD COUNTY REGULATES CHESAPEAKE BAY CRITICAL AREA WITHIN A THOUSAND FOOT BUFFER ALONG TIDAL WATERS ON THE PENINSULA.
ROUGHLY 400 ACRES ARE MAPPED IS CHESAPEAKE BAY CRITICAL AREA, AND ONLY THE EXISTING RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT'S OUT THERE TODAY IS ALLOWED TO EXIST.
THE REST OF THE LAND IS PROHIBITED FROM DEVELOPMENT BY BEING DESIGNATED AS A RESOURCE CONSERVATION AREA, A SECOND UNDER CURRENT LAW, THE PARAMIN WELL FIELD, A DISTRICT IS PROTECTED PROTECTED BY THE OVERLAY, THE ZONING OVERLAY, WHICH ENFORCES A NUMBER OF REGULATIONS ON ANY DEVELOPMENT IN THE WELL FIELD AREA.
IT LIMITS NON-RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT TO 50% IMPERVIOUS COVERAGE.
IT PROHIBITS INDUSTRIAL USES CONSIDERED HAZARDOUS IT PROHIBITS UNDERGROUND TANKS AND REQUIRES STORM WATER MANAGEMENT TO ADDRESS THE USE OF CONTAINMENT MEASURES.
SHOULD THERE BE TOXIC OR HAZARDOUS MATERIALS ON THE SITE? UM, ALL THAT WAS PUT IN PLACE BASED ON THE PYRAMID WELL FIELD STUDIES THAT WERE DONE PREVIOUSLY AND IMPOSED BY THE COUNCIL AND AS LAW HARFORD COUNTY DPW, A DIVISION OF WATER AND SEWER, UH, ACTUALLY MANAGES THE WATER SYSTEM AND THE PAYMENT WELL FIELD.
AND, UH, CERTAINLY THEY'RE A RESOURCE FOR ANYBODY TO, TO REACH OUT, TO, TO VERIFY THE, THE SUCCESS OF THE WELFARE AND OVERLAY DISTRICT ON THE IMPACT OF THE WELLS UNDER CURRENT LAW, HARFORD COUNTY REGULATES THE NATURAL RESOURCE DISTRICT THAT PROHIBITS DEVELOPMENT ON NON HOW TO WETLANDS STEEP SLOPES, UH, STREAMS AND FLOODPLAINS, UH, HARFORD COUNTY HAS A 75 FOOT WETLAND BUFFER THREE TIMES THE STATE STANDARD OF ONLY 25 FEET.
UM, HARTFORD COUNTY ALSO HAS A NUMEROUS NUMBER OF, UH, ADDITIONAL CONSERVATION MEASURES PROTECTING NATURAL RESOURCE DISTRICTS.
UH, UNDER CURRENT LAW FOREST CONSERVATION STORM WATER MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS, UH, ARE, HAVE TO BE ADDRESSED ON ALL DEVELOPMENT STORM.
WATER MANAGEMENT MUST BE DESIGNED TO MIMIC FOREST AND MIMICKING FOREST MEANS DEVELOPING PROPERTY.
INSTALLING STORM WATER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS IS GOING TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF THE RUNOFF BETTER THAN EXISTING AGRICULTURAL USE.
UM, THE PARAMIN UH, OH, THE PARAMOUNT AREA ALSO CONTAINS A WELL-DRAINED SOILS THAT PROMOTE INFILTRATION AS A PRIMARY SOURCE FOR STORM WATER RUNOFF, UH, TREATMENT.
SO GIVEN ALL, GIVEN ALL THESE REGULATIONS THAT WE HAVE LUMPED ON TOP OF EACH OTHER, 150 DAY MORATORIUM, ISN'T EVEN CLOSE TO THE TIME IT'S GOING TO TAKE FOR THE PROFESSIONALS IN HARFORD COUNTY, GOVERNMENT, AND STATE GOVERNMENT TO REVIEW AND APPROVE ANY DEVELOPMENT THAT HAPPENS IN THIS COUNTY, ESPECIALLY ON THE PARAMIN DISTRICT OVERLAY DISTRICT.
SO, UM, FOR THAT REASON, DOING A MORATORIUM HERE IS JUST NOT WARRANTED.
JANET REECE FOLLOWED BY SANDRA, HER RENT, HER WRECK.
YOU, YOU, YOU, YOU'RE A GOOD LOOKING MAN THERE.
YOU TOLD HIM I'M TALKING TO YOU.
YEAH, I GOTTA BE MARRIED TO YOU.
IT HAS BEEN A LONG, I THINK WE KIND OF LOOSENED IT UP A LITTLE BIT IN THE HEAD WAS KIND OF GETTING KIND OF THICK ENOUGH IS ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
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MY NAME IS JANET REECE.I LIVE WITH 1921 POP BEAT STRIVE.
I DON'T CARRY MINE BECAUSE I'M STILL HERE.
COUNCILMEN BEULAH SERVED WITH MY HUSBAND LONG TIME AGO.
OVER 30 YEARS AGO, WE NEVER THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD COME BACK TO THIS AREA.
I WAS THROUGH THE MILITARY WHEN WE ALL THREE, THE MILITARIES STARTED FROM THOSE STORMS AND DESERT SHIELD TO AFGHAN, TO ALL THE OTHER WARS WE WERE IN IT, IT WAS IN TRENCHES.
ALL OF US WAS IN IT SO MUCH NOISE IN OUR HEADS.
WE CAME BACK TO ABERDEEN, PROVING GROUNDS FROM BEING STATIONED HERE AT THE STATION NEAR STATION HERE STAYS IN HERE.
IF ANYBODY IN THE MILITARY, NO, YOU MOVED THREE YEARS.
WE CAME BACK HERE AND WE JUST WANTED THE NOISE TO STOP.
WHEN YOU WERE IN A WAR-TORN AREA FOR MANY YEARS, MOVING BACK AND FORTH, YOU WANT THE NOISE TO STOP.
WHEN THEY COME HOME FROM CHURCH AND WE WAS COMING, I WAS MY, MY, MY HEADLIGHTS, BRING HIM DOWN THIS OBJECT ON CHELSEA.
AND I WAS TURNING ON THE PYRAMID TO GO HOME AND I STOPPED AND I LOOKED AND IT WAS, IT WAS JUST, JUST PARTS ALL OVER THE ROAD ON CHELSEA ROAD.
AND I GOT OUT THE CAR AND I WENT OVER THERE AND I SAW WHAT IT WAS.
IT WAS A YOUNG LADY, IT WAS ON HER BICYCLE AND THE TRUCK RAN OVER HER.
AND I GOT DOWN ON MY KNEES AND I TRIED TO CPR TO, TO HELP HER.
AND THE MORE I PRESS TO DO THE CPR TO HELP HER, THE BLOOD WAS JUST COMING OUT OF HER HEAD.
AND THERE WAS A CAR COMING UP TOWARDS, AND THE REFLECTION OF HER BACK BACK BICYCLE MADE THE CAR STOPPED.
HE GOT OUT TO STOP THE TRAFFIC FOR RUNNING OVER HER AND HER, HIS WIFE CAME TO HELP ME.
SHE TOOK OFF HER COAT TO PUT PRESSURE ON HER HEAD SO I CAN CONTINUE TO DO THE CPR.
AND HE WAS CALLING FOR HELP NINE 11, BUT SHE DIDN'T MAKE IT WHEN THEY CAME AND THEY COVERED IT OVER.
WE ASKED IF WE CAN DO SAY THE LORD'S PRAYER.
WE SAID THE LORD'S PRAYER OVER HER BODY.
WHEN EVERYTHING WAS OVER THERE AND TOOK OUR NAMES, THEY LET US GO WITH GOING TOWARDS ABERDEEN TO WALMART.
THERE'S ANOTHER TRUCK STATION, THEIR WASTE STATION, THEIR TRUCKS COMING THIS WAY, TRUCK COMING THAT WAY.
IF YOU HAVE TO GET THROUGH, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO KIND OF QUICKLY LOOK AROUND TO GET THROUGH.
AND ANOTHER ACCIDENT WAS THERE.
I GOT OUT FIRST CAUSE I WAS, THEY WAS COMING BEHIND ME.
I GOT OUT AND I'M TRYING TO DO CPR AGAIN.
IS ENOUGH THE NOISE IN MY HEAD.
CAN I SAY ONE MORE QUICK THING REAL QUICK, THE NOISE HE'S DON'T TELL ME NO.
CURTIS BILL IS A GOOD LOOKING MAN.
NO, I THINK YOU BETTER LOOKING.
WHEN WE CAME BACK FROM IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN FROM THE WAR, MY HUSBAND AND I SOLDIERS FOR LIFE.
WE DIDN'T WANT ANY NOISE THAT I HAD ANYMORE.
WE SAVED SO MANY LIVES OVER THERE.
I DIDN'T WANT TO COME HOME AND HAVE TO SAVE LIFE AT MY OWN HOME IN THE UNITED STATES.
AND SO WHEN I MOVED BACK, THEN I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT WAS THERE ON PERRY.
HE SAID HEAVEN THAT GOD GAVE US PEACE AND I DON'T HAVE THE NOISE ANYMORE.
PLEASE DON'T LET THEM BUILD ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
I LIVE AT 1900 PYRAMID ROAD ON THE PYRAMID PENINSULA.
MY FAMILY MOVED TO THE PYRAMID PENINSULA IN 2013.
THE HOUSE WAS JUST RIGHT ENOUGH LAND FOR THE CHILDREN TO PLAY AND WONDERFUL WILDLIFE WRITING OUR OWN YARD.
SO THREE RAIL LINES RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET WAS PERFECT.
SITTING ON THE FRONT PORCH, WATCHING A FOX WITH HER KIDS PLAY IN THE OPEN FIELD.
BEYOND THE TRACKS WAS A DELIGHT DEER AND RAPTORS
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ENJOYED THE FIELDS AS WELL.WE HAD FOUND THE IDYLLIC PLACE TO LIVE.
THEN DISASTER STRUCK IN 2016, A 751,000 SQUARE FOOT WAREHOUSE.
WITH OVER 100 LOADING DOCKS WAS BUILT ON THOSE 48 AND 48 ACRES JUST BEYOND THE TRAIN TRACKS, XPO LOGISTICS LEASES.
THIS BUILDING AS A FREIGHT TERMINAL.
OUR VIEW NOW IS ONLY THE BUILDING AND LOADING DOCKS.
THIS ALSO PROVIDES THE SOUND OF THE TRUCKS DRIVING AROUND TO THE DOCKS.
THE BACKUP ALARM IS A POSITION TO THE DOCK.
SOME DRIVERS NEED ABOUT SIX TRIES TO DO THAT.
THE DOCK BUMP, WHICH DUE TO SOUND WAVES, SHAKES OUR HOUSE.
THEN THE AIR BRAKE NOISE, THE DOORS, THE DOORS IS A TRAILER SLAMMED SOLIDLY, AND THE TRACTOR DOOR OPENS AND CLOSES AGAIN.
AS THE DRIVER EXITS SEEING A FRIEND OR FOE, THEY BEGAN A CONVERSATION.
THIS IS A 24 7 OPERATION COUNTY EXECUTIVE BARRY GLASSMAN WAS QUOTED AS SAYING IT SHOULD BRING HUNDREDS OF JOBS IN THE GROWING E-COMMERCE FIELD.
IRONICALLY, MARYLAND LAW ON FEBRUARY 1ST, 2016, DEFINED A NUISANCE AS AN INTERFERENCE WITH THE ENJOYMENT OF ONE'S PROPERTY.
WHEN THAT INTERFERENCE IS SUBSTANTIAL AND UNREASONABLE, SUCH THAT IT WOULD BE OFFENSIVE OR INCONVENIENT TO THE NORMAL PERSON.
IT IS OFFENSIVE AND INCONVENIENT.
WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO LISTEN TO PEOPLE'S CONVERSATIONS AS IF THEY WERE VISITING ON OUR PORCH? THE NOISE POLLUTION AFFECTS THEIR LIFE AND ACTIVITY WITHOUT CARE.
MA'AM HARRY WEBSTER FOLLOWED BY BRUCE MARIANO.
GOOD EVENING, HARRY WEBSTER, 1814 PARK BEACH DRIVE.
UH, HARFORD COUNTY HAS A DESCRIBED AREA CALLED THE DEVELOPMENT ENVELOPE.
THAT INCLUDES THE LAND IMPAIRMENT FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS.
MEGA WAREHOUSES BUILT ON LAND IN PERRIMAN.
OUR CITIZENS ARE STILL WAITING FOR THE ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES TO CATCH UP, TO HANDLE THE TRUCK AND TRAFFIC AND EMPLOYEE VEHICLE TRAFFIC.
THE PUBLIC FACILITY LAWS PROMISE TO PROVIDE SAFE ROAD PASSAGE PROMISE TO PROVIDE NEEDED INFRASTRUCTURE, BUT SOMEONE, SOME THING HAS FAILED IN THE PAST 20 YEARS IN THE DEVELOPMENT ENVELOPE.
I'VE BEEN LED TO BELIEVE THAT THE COUNTY AND STATE HAVE DEVELOPMENT UNDER CONTROL, BUT THEN CANNING HOUSE ROAD.
PROJECT IS BEING PROPOSED, WHICH I BELIEVE IS PROOF THAT SOMETHING IS OUT OF BALANCE.
ONE IT'S BEING PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF RESIDENTIAL HOUSING TOO.
I MEAN, I DON'T, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S OUTSIDE OF THE THOUSAND FEET, IT'S STILL GOING TO IMPACT THE CHESAPEAKE BAY WATERSHED.
I URGE YOU ALL TO STUDY THIS PROJECT.
UM, I URGE YOU TO APPROVE A MORATORIUM SO YOU CAN TAKE THE TIME NEEDED TO EVALUATE THIS MASSIVE PREP, UH, PROJECT, DO YOUR DUE DILIGENCE AND COME AND SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING.
I THINK WE ALL HAVE A COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITY TO STEWARD ANY SENSITIVE PROPERTY.
THE CONSEQUENCES ARE TOO GREAT.
THE ENVIRONMENTAL COST TO REPAIR IN 20 YEARS FROM NOW.
SO LET'S TAKE THE TIME AND DO IT NOW.
PLEASE VOTE GUESS FOR THE MORATORIUM.
GOOD EVENING, MR. PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE HARTFORD COUNTY COUNCIL FOR THE RECORD.
MY NAME IS BRUCE BARRY ANO FROM ANNAPOLIS,
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MARYLAND.AND I'M HERE ON BEHALF OF CHESAPEAKE, A REAL ESTATE GROUP, UH, IN OPPOSITION TO THIS, UH, LEGISLATION, UH, ONE CLERICAL, UH, UH, CORRECTION, BEFORE I START, UH, UH, THE WOMAN THAT SPOKE ABOUT ABINGTON WOODS AND ACCUSED MY CLIENT OF, UH, OF, UM, UH, NOT BEING RESPONSIVE IN WHAT HAVE YOU.
WE'RE NOT INVOLVED IN THAT PROJECT.
SO WHOEVER SHE WAS SPEAKING TO, UH, WE DID NOT IGNORE HER OR THE COMMUNITY IN THAT REGARD.
UM, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN, UH, I'VE BEEN A LOBBYIST AND I'VE BEEN, UH, UH, WORKING AS A LAWYER AND I'VE NEVER SEEN A PIECE OF LEGISLATION LIKE THIS BEFORE IN MY LIFE, UH, RE VERY RESPECTFULLY.
IT'S A, IT'S A GROSSLY WRONG PIECE OF LEGISLATION.
IT'S A PIECE OF LEGISLATION THAT IS BLATANTLY UNCONSTITUTIONAL BECAUSE YOU'RE A LEGISLATIVE BODY.
YOU'RE NOT THE, YOU'RE NOT THE DEPARTMENT OF PLANNING AND ZONING.
I KNOW ALL OF YOU PERSONALLY, YOU'RE VERY FINE LEGISLATORS, BUT YOUR LEGISLATORS YOU'LL HAVE AN EXECUTIVE BRANCH OF GOVERNMENT IN THIS COUNTY, VERY FINE.
YOU TOOK AN OATH TO UPHOLD THE LAW, NOT ONLY OF THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE OF MARYLAND, BUT OF HARFORD COUNTY.
AND YOU HAVE A MYRIAD OF COUNTY AGENCIES THAT FOR WELL OVER A YEAR HAVE BEEN METICULOUSLY STUDYING THIS MATTER.
MY CLIENT IS ON EVERYTHING BY THE BOOK BY THE BOOK IS NOT SHADED.
THEY HAVE FOLLOWED EVERYTHING.
THEY'VE HAD WEEKLY MEETINGS WITH THE COUNTY OFFICIALS.
THEY'VE GOTTEN COMMENTS, THEY'VE ADJUSTED, THEY'VE DONE EVERYTHING UNLAWFULLY.
THIS BILL IS, I RESPECT ALL THE EMOTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN IN THIS ROOM TODAY.
I REALLY DO RESPECT THEM BECAUSE I'M AN EMOTIONAL GUY AND I SPEAK MY MIND AS WELL.
BUT THE LAW IS THE LAW AND WE CAN'T DO THINGS OR PASS BILLS BASED UPON EMOTIONS.
THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU'RE HERE FOR.
YOU HAVE TO PASS LAWS AND, AND UPHOLD THE LAW.
AND WHEN THIS ALL BOILS DOWN, THAT THAT REALLY IS THE SITUATION.
UH, THE PROPERTY IS PROPERLY ZONED.
THE PLAN MEETS THE ADEQUATE PUBLIC FACILITIES.
EVERYTHING MY CLIENT HAS DONE TO DATE HAS BEEN LAWFUL AND LEGAL AND ABIDED BY ALL THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH OFFICIALS.
YOUR, YOUR DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS YOUR DIVISION OF WATER AND SEWER, YOUR DIVISION OF ENGINEERING, STORMWATER MANAGEMENT, AND SEDIMENT CONTROL, HARTFORD COUNTY PLANNING AND ZONING DEVELOPMENT REVIEW REVIEW SITE PLANNING, LANDSCAPE, FOREST CONSERVATION, LONGTERM PLANNING, TRANSPORTATION PLANNING, JUST BE BAKED, CRITICAL ERROR OF YOUR AREA.
REVIEW STATE HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, HARTFORD COUNTY, SOIL CONSERVATION, THIS FIRE AND EMS ASSOCIATION.
SHERIFF'S OFFICE, MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT, HARFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS, AND THE S ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEER.
WHAT MORE DO YOU WANT FROM US? I MEAN, SERIOUSLY, THE MORATORIUM, THE MORATORIUM IS JUST TO STOP THIS PROJECT.
IT'S NOT TO, TO, TO STUDY IT MORE.
UH, IT'S BEEN STUDIED EXTENSIVELY.
UH, UH, I URGE THIS COUNCIL RESPECTFULLY THE ACT LAWFULLY.
THIS IS AN UNCONSTITUTIONAL ORDINANCE.
CHERYL COLE FOLLOWED BY ERICA PHELPS.
MA'AM UM, HI, MY NAME IS CHERYL DAVIS COLE.
GOOD EVENING, PRESIDENT VINCENT DAY COUNCIL MEMBERS.
UM, THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE.
WE APPRECIATE YOUR TIME THIS EVENING.
UM, I'M HERE TONIGHT TO RESPECTFULLY REQUEST YOUR SUPPORT IN FAVOR OF THE MORATORIUM TO ALLOW MORE TIME FOR STUDIES TO BE PERFORMED ON THE MITCHELL PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT.
I WAS THINKING IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IF YOU DRIVE UP AND DOWN ROUTE 40 AND YOU THINK OF OUR OTHER MAJOR TOWNS ON THE ROUTE 40 CARTER, THEY HAVE ACCESS TO THE WATER.
EDGEWOOD HAVE DEGRACE JOPPA TOWN HAVE ALL BUILT THEIR COMMUNITIES AROUND THE IMPORTANCE OF HEALTH AND RECREATION.
THEY HAVE PLANNED FOR THE RESIDENTS AND VISITORS TO HAVE ACCESS TO WATER WITH HIKING TRAILS, PLAYGROUNDS, BATHROOMS, KAYAK, AND BOAT LAUNCHES IN THEIR COMMUNITIES
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WITH TONS OF SAFE PARKING.JUST THINK ABOUT ABERDEEN, THE PLANNERS AND THE GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS FORGOT ABOUT THE BEAUTY OF OUR BUSH RIVER AND THE CHESAPEAKE BAY, ABERDEEN RESIDENTS, HARFORD COUNTY RESIDENTS, AND VISITORS HAVE NO ACCESS TO THE BUSH RIVER EVERY DAY.
YOU GUYS CAN DRIVE UP AND DOWN ROUTE 40 A TWO LANE HIGHWAY AND SEE CARS PULLED OVER ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE LEFT-HAND SIDE OF THE RIVER, UM, TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE RIVER.
FIRST OF ALL, YOU HAVE TO FIND A PARKING SPACE.
THEN YOU HAVE TO GET OUT OF YOUR CAR AND YOU GOT TO HOPE.
IT'S SAFE TO EITHER CROSS THE ROAD OR WALK DOWN A SWAMPY FIELD.
THESE PEOPLE ARE TAKING THEIR FAMILIES.
THEY'RE TAKING THEIR KAYAKS, ARE TAKING THEIR FISHING RODS.
ALL THEY WANT TO DO IS HAVE ACCESS TO THE ROUTE 40 CARTER.
THINK ABOUT WHEN YOU TRAVEL AROUND THE COUNTRY, EVEN IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES, PEOPLE LIKE TO GO TO PARKS.
UM, EVERYONE REALIZES THAT THIS COUNCIL DID NOT MAKE THIS DECISION BACK IN 1997.
HOWEVER, THIS COUNCIL IS IN A UNIQUE POSITION TO ENCOURAGE AND MAKE SOME MUCH NEEDED CHANGES AND, AND UNDO SOME OF THE NEGATIVE IMPACTS AND ECONOMIC DISPARITIES.
THE WAREHOUSES HAVE CREATED IMPAIRMENT.
HARFORD COUNTY CAN NEVER UNDO WHAT IS ALREADY DONE TO THE PARAMIN AREA AND ITS RESIDENTS.
IT CAN PUT A STOP TO STARTING AND STARTING WITH THIS PROJECT AND WORKING WITH THE MITCHELL FAMILY AND THE PIERCE FAMILY AND OUR COMMUNITY.
THE COUNTY CAN CREATE A HIKE AND BIKE TRAIL SYSTEM THAT TAKES YOU THROUGH THE BEAUTIFUL PRESERVE WITH THE WILDLIFE, A VERY DIVERSE ECOSYSTEM ESTUARY THAT'S ALREADY IN PLACE.
FARMLANDS NEED TO BE PRESERVED.
THIS PROPERTY IS A TREASURE FOR HARFORD COUNTY.
PLEASE SUPPORT THE MORATORIUM, ALLOW MORE TIME FOR THE PROPERTY AND STUDIES TO COMPLETE IT ON THIS PROJECT.
I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME TONIGHT.
MA'AM ERICA PHILLIPS 1820 MITCHELL.
I'M BEEN TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT TO SAY OTHER THAN WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN SAID, WENT BACK AND WATCHED THE LAST 12 WEEKS OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL MEETINGS THAT MY NEIGHBORS HAVE COME TO.
WE'RE SAYING THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER THE, THE DATA THAT WE'RE RESEARCHING.
WE'RE GIVING IT TO YOU FOR YOU TO LOOK AT.
UM, THE SAME THING, DRINKING WATER.
IS THAT NOT IMPORTANT? OKAY, SO MAYBE WILDLIFE IS IMPORTANT TO YOU.
MAYBE THE BUSH RIVER QUALITY WATER.
UM, AS, AS SHRILL SAID, BETTER USE OF THE, THE LAND MAKE, UH, GIVE THE FAMILY THEIR MONEY AND GIVE US A PARK.
THERE'S GOTTA BE, THEY HAVE THEIR MONEY.
WE HAVE A PARK FLYING POINT MARINA.
LET'S GET ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE.
UM, ZONING 5.5 0.2 MILLION THAT'S LIGHT IN WHOSE MIND.
I HAVE TO EDUCATE MYSELF, I GUESS.
UM, TRAFFIC SAFETY, LACK THEREOF.
EVERYBODY HAS ALREADY HEARD THIS STORY OVER AND OVER AGAIN.
ANYBODY HAS ANY, WHEN YOU'RE PASSING PEOPLE DEAD ON THE ROAD AS OUR NEIGHBOR, DID I LIVE ON MITCHELL? I'M GOING TO LOOK AT IT IS I GUARANTEE YOU WHEN I PUT MY HOUSE ON THE MARKET, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COME AND SAY, YEAH, WE'LL GONNA LOOK ELSEWHERE.
YOU KNOW, I WAS LOOKING AT PUR.
I WAS LOOKING AT THE WEBSITE TODAY, PROTECT PERRY.COM.
IF ANYBODY LISTENING WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AND JUST LOOKING AT IT AS A, FROM A BIRD'S EYE VIEW WITH ALL OF THE WAREHOUSING AND THEY'RE ALL LABELED AND YOU CAN ALL SEE IT, IT JUST TAKES THE PERSPECTIVE TO BE LIKE, THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE LITTLE TINY MITCHELL PRO PROPERTY ON CANNING HOUSE.
THIS IS ABOUT FROM WALMART ALL THE WAY TO ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND.
IT'S NOT JUST THESE FIVE WAREHOUSES.
SO WHEN YOU PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE, YOU COULD PROBABLY UNDERSTAND A LITTLE BIT BETTER WHY WE'RE SO UPSET.
ALSO GO TO THREE P PROTECT PARAMINOL ON FACEBOOK FOR ALL THE FOLKS THAT COULDN'T COME HERE TODAY.
THEY'RE SHOWING WHAT THEY'RE COMING HOME TO THERE.
THEY'RE SHOWING YOU THE ACCIDENTS THAT ARE HAPPENING AS THEY'RE COMING HOME FROM WORK, THEY'RE CLICKING A, A LITTLE PICTURE AND PUTTING IT ON THE PROPERTY WINDOW.
UM, FACEBOOK PAGE FOR EVERYBODY TO VIEW, PLEASE
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GO LOOK AT IT FOR YOURSELF.THAT'S ALL WE'RE ASKING 150 DAYS.
IF THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE AS THESE MEN ARE STATING 150 DAYS, IS IT GOING TO CHANGE ANYTHING PLEASE VOTE.
MA'AM ANGIE LANE FOLLOWED BY GABRIEL WATSON.
MA'AM ANGIE LANE ADDRESS IS ON FILE.
UM, I'M NOT AGAINST DEVELOPMENT IN HARTFORD COUNTY.
I SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT THAT IS THOUGHT THROUGH ENTIRELY FOR SAFETY, LOGISTICS AND ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT, APPROPRIATE PLANNING SHOULD BE PERFORMED ACCORDING TO THE SITE SURROUNDINGS AND COMMUNITY INPUT.
A CIM IS AN IMPORTANT INDICATOR OF THE LEVEL OF STUDY NECESSARY.
ONE THAT HAS NO ATTENDEES MAY NOT REQUIRE AS MUCH ANALYSIS AS ONE WHERE SEVERAL HUNDRED ATTEND 112 PAGES OF MEETING MINUTES CLEARLY SAYS THERE'S MORE IMPACT THAN WHAT WAS CONSIDERED A RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPER WILL WELCOME STUDIES TO ENSURE THE VIABILITY AND SAFETY OF OUR RESIDENTS AND PROTECTION OF OUR COUNTY'S WATER, SUPPLY AND ENVIRONMENT.
NOT TRY TO AVOID THEM BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF FINDINGS.
PUT YOUR INTEREST IN PROTECTING ALL OF THE HARTFORD COUNTY, NOT JUST IN THOSE THAT MAKE FINANCIAL COMMITMENTS TO DEVELOPMENT.
PLEASE TAKE THE TIME TO DETERMINE WHAT'S APPROPRIATE.
MA'AM NEXT SPEAKER, APRIL WATSON GREGORY.
LOOK FOR FOLLOWED BY JOE SNAKE.
DID THEY HAVE THAT ONE? GREG GLENCORE PRIOR HIM IN 1820 PARK BEACH DRIVE.
I'VE COME HERE BY 11, 12 WEEKS NOW, AND I'VE JUST TAKEN FROM THE HEART, BUT I GOT SOME POINTS THAT I REALLY HAVE TO MAKE, AND I AM SUPPORTING THIS MORATORIUM.
SO PLEASE LET ME JUST READ THIS OFF.
A SHORT PAUSE, A FEW MONTHS FOR LAND THAT HAS BEEN FARMED FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS, AN AREA REZONED 25 YEARS AGO IN 97, THE BILL ASS FOR THE COUNTY COUNCIL TO SET UP A STUDY GROUP, THE COUNTY COUNCIL, COMMUNITY COUNTY ADMINISTRATORS, BUSINESS COMMUNITY, AND THE EXPERTS TO COME HERE AND JUST TO ANALYZE THIS PROJECT, THE CHANGE OF THIS FORM, WHEN IT HAS BEEN THE IMPEDIMENT COMMUNITY FOR OVER A HUNDRED YEARS INTO A MEGA WAREHOUSE AND FREIGHT DISTRIBUTION CENTER, THE ZONING CHANGED BEFORE THE 2000, UH, MARYLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT.
THE SOURCE WATER ASSESSMENT FOR PARAMIN WELL FIELD IS DETERMINED TO BE 30% OF HARFORD COUNTY DRINK DRINKING WATER LIES.
AMAZON WAS A PUBLIC COMPANY WAS, UH, IT WAS BEFORE AMAZON WAS A PUBLIC COMPANY AND CHANGED THE WORD WILLIE WHILE WAREHOUSING WAS THE IPHONE IS DEVELOPED 10 YEARS LATER.
THIS IS WHAT EVERYBODY USES EVERY SINGLE DAY.
THE WAREHOUSE APPEARS IN THE ZONING CODE IN THREE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.
C I G I AND NLI YET IT'S UNDEFINED IN 1997.
THE WORD WAREHOUSE WAS IT DUSTY, COLD AND DARK BUILT AND FILLED WITH RACKS.
GOVERNMENT DATA TELLS US THAT THE AVERAGE WAREHOUSE WAS SMALLER THAN 10,000 SQUARE FEET IN 97 IN 2022, THERE ARE SEVEN DEFINITIONS.
WHEN YOU COMBINE THESE TO GET 1.7 MILLION SQUARE FOOT OF A SMART REGIONAL MEGA DISTRIBUTION CENTER THAT MAXIMIZES THE VELOCITY OF TRUCKS AND PRODUCTS COMING IN AND OUT AND MINIMIZE THE NUMBER OF HUMANS, THE JOBS NEEDED TO RUN THE OPERATIONS.
WE NEED TO PAUSE JUST A LITTLE EXTRA TIME TO FULLY UNDERSTAND THE IMPACTS OF THIS TRAFFIC EMERGENCY RESPONSE TIME.
WE NEED MORE TIME TO UNDERSTAND THE HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE OF PARAMIN.
WE NEED MORE TIME TO UNDERSTAND THE FULL ENVIRONMENTAL
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IMPACT AND ESPECIALLY, UH, THE, UH, AQUIFERS THAT PROVIDE THIRD PERCENT OF THE DRINK AND WATER TO THE COUNTY.I THINK THAT THERE MAY BE EVEN A REASONABLE DOUBT THAT IMPACT THIS PROJECT WILL HAVE ON OUR COMMUNITY, THE ENVIRONMENT, THE HISTORY, THE TRAFFIC SITUATION, THE IMPACT ON THE HEALTH AND THE WELLBEING OF MILLS NEAR THE PROPERTY OF THE MOST IMPORTANT IN THE DRINKING WATER OF UP TO 80,000 PEOPLE IN HARTFORD COUNTY.
AND EVENING SHOWS OF HAVE SNI JR.
ONE 12 SOUTH MAIN STREET, BELLATOR 2 10, 14.
I DO NOT REPRESENT THE PROPERTY OWNER.
I DON'T REPRESENT THE DEVELOPER JUST FOR THE INTEREST OF CANDOR, BUT WHAT I DO REPRESENT ARE PEOPLE THAT HAVE PROPERTY RIGHTS THAT ARE CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED.
AND THAT'S WHAT THIS CASE IS ALL ABOUT.
UM, JUST BY WAY OF ZONING HISTORY ON FEBRUARY 23RD, 1954, WE HAD AN EMERGENCY ZONING CODE THAT WENT INTO EFFECT THAT WAS FOLLOWED IN 1957 BY THE PERMANENT ZONING CODE IN 1977, THE MASTER LAND USE PLAN ESTABLISHED THE GROWTH ENVELOPE.
THAT'S THE AREA FROM JOPPA TOWN TO HAVE A GRACE UP THROUGH ABBINGTON TO AIR AND TO FORCE TILL IT'S WHERE WATER AND SEWER IS.
THE REST OF THE OUTLIERS ARE NOT PUBLIC WATER AND SEWER.
UM, PARAGRAPH EIGHT OF THE 77 PARAMIN PLAN SAID PERRY MEN WILL QUOTE, PROVIDE FOR A CONCENTRATED INDUSTRIAL DASH COMMERCIAL BLOCK SUFFICIENT TO BE DEVELOPED AS INDUSTRIAL PARKS.
IN 1997, THE MITCHELL PROPERTY WAS ZONED L I SECTION 2 67 60 OF THE ZONING CODE, WHICH ARE THE RULES WE PLAY BY, UH, SAYS, QUOTE, THIS DISTRICT IS INTENDED TO PERMIT A MIX OF WAREHOUSES.
I AGREE WITH MR. , WE PLAY BY THE RULES.
THAT'S THE CODE? THAT'S THE MASTER LAND USE PLAN.
AND IT IS CONSTITUTIONALLY SUSPECT WHEN A MORATORIUM IS IMPOSED TO SLOW DOWN THE PROJECT, WHICH IS PRINCIPALLY PERMITTED.
UM, IT, IF IMPOSED THIS MORATORIUM WOULD VIOLATE THE TAKINGS CLAUSE OF THE FIFTH AMENDMENT.
EVERYBODY THINKS THE FIFTH AMENDMENT IS JUST TO INVOKE YOUR RIGHT TO REMAIN SILENT.
NOW IT SAYS IF IT'S A PERMANENT OR A TEMPORARY TAKING, THEN THE COUNTY HAS TO PAY BECAUSE YOU'RE TAKING PROPERTY WITHOUT COMPENSATION.
UM, AS FOR THE PYRAMID WILLS, THE BIGGEST THREAT TO THE WELLS ARE NITRATES AND NITRATES COME FROM FARM FIELDS AND SINGLE FAMILY HOMES THAT HAVE LONG FERTILIZER ON THEM.
AND IF YOU READ THE STUDIES, THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS.
UM, I THINK IT'D BE MORE PRUDENT FOR ALL OF US HERE.
IF WE GOT TOGETHER AND SAT AT THE TABLE AND FIGURED OUT HOW TO GET STATE HIGHWAY AND DPW TOGETHER TO PROVIDE THE ACCESS THAT THESE FOLKS WANT.
AND I'D BE HAPPY TO SIT AT THAT TABLE.
THERE ARE NO MORE SPEAKERS, MR. PRESIDENT.
YOU SAY THERE'S NO MORE SPEAKERS.
SO JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK NOTES HERE.
UH, KATHLEEN, YOU ASKED WHEN WE WOULD CONSIDER THIS, UM, AND THIS IS STILL EVOLVING TODAY.
I GOT AMENDMENTS TO THIS BILL.
I HAVEN'T EVEN HAD A CHANCE TO REVIEW THEM YET, SO THEY WILL BE REVIEWED AND MORE THAN LIKELY ON THE NEXT MEETING AGENDA.
SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE STEPS, AS I'VE SAID ALL ALONG.
UM, THE OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION TONIGHT IS THAT BECAUSE OF THIS PUBLIC HEARING, THERE WILL BE NO COMMENTS RELATED TO PARAMIN ALLOWED IN THE GENERAL LEGISLATIVE MEETING AS FAR AS CITIZENS COMMENTS.
SO I TRY TO RELAY THAT EARLIER TO A FEW PEOPLE TODAY, AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I MENTIONED IT AGAIN THIS EVENING.
AND WITHOUT ANY FURTHER SPEAKERS, THIS PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE ADJOURNED.
MA'AM WHAT'S THAT MEAN? IT'S JUST FOR TONIGHT.
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I'M NOT GOING TO ENTERTAIN ANYTHING ELSE RIGHT NOW, BUT I DID WANT TO, UM, ACKNOWLEDGE THAT AGAIN, THIS WILL CONCLUDE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND THIS WILL ALL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION FOR FUTURE MEETING.THANK YOU ALL FOR SPEAKING AND TAKING THE TIME WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A RECESS.
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EVENING.CHAIR CALLS THE OR LEGISLATIVE SESSION DAY 22 DASH ZERO 10.
I'M GOING TO ASK YOU TO JOIN US WITH THE PLEDGE OR STANDING WITH THE PLEDGE AND THE PRAYER.
AFTER BY COUNCILMAN WOODS, I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FIVE OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE, FOR ALL CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE, WE ASKED FOR YOUR BLESSINGS AT THIS TIME ALLOWS MEETING TO BEGIN IN ORDER TO BE CONDUCTED IN PEACE AND CLOSING HARMONY.
AMEN AND AMEN COUNCILMAN, WHICH IS GOOD TO HAVE YOU BACK ON THE DESK AND BACK IN TOWN AND TO BE BACK AGENDA ITEM, NUMBER FOUR, PRESENTATION OF PROCLAMATIONS.
[5. CONSIDERATION OF PETITIONS, APPLICATIONS, APPOINTMENTS AND NOMINATIONS]
AGENDA, NUMBER FIVE, CONSIDERATION PETITIONS, APPLICATIONS, APPOINTMENTS, AND NOMINATIONS COUNCIL APPOINTMENT HARTFORD, LIVING TREASURER, MR. SCHROEDER, THE COUNCIL PRESIDENT, AND I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CULTURAL ARTS BOARD RECOMMENDATION OF JOHN SOURS AS A HARTFORD LIVING TREASURE.IT'S BEEN MOVED IN SECOND TO APPROVE.
MR. SAUERS IS A HARTFORD LIVING TREASURES.
ANY COMMENTS MR. ? YEAH, SO I'LL MAKE A FEW.
HE'S NOT HERE THIS EVENING, BUT, UM, I JUST WANTED TO SAY HE'S PROBABLY SOMEONE THAT WE'RE ALL FAMILIAR WITH.
HE'S A LOCALLY WELL-KNOWN ARTIST AND I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S, UM, HOW MOST OF US KNOW HIM, HE'S GOT A LOT OF OTHER HISTORY HERE IN HARFORD COUNTY AND HAS AMAZING STORIES, BUT, UM, BUT HIS ARTWORK IS THROUGHOUT HARTFORD COUNTY.
UM, WE HAVE A PIECE OF HIS ARTWORK UPSTAIRS AND I KNOW THE COLLEGE HAS HAD, UM, SOME ARTWORK, I BELIEVE, UH, YOU KNOW, MANY ORGANIZATIONS HAVE HAD THEM OVER THE, OVER THE TIME.
UH, I DO WANT TO THANK THE INDIVIDUAL WHO NOMINATED HIM JONATHAN WEST.
I DO FEEL THAT JOHN SOURS IS, UH, WOULD BE A GREAT HARTFORD LIVING TREASURE.
AND I THINK THANK YOU, MR. SHREDS.
ANYONE ELSE? MS. DIXON? HI, MR. WOOD.
MR. JAMES HERNANDEZ, MR. SCHROEDER, MR. VIOLA FOR BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE AND NEAR ZERO IN A NEGATIVE THE APPOINTMENT OF JOHN SOURS AS A HARTFORD LIVING TREASURES HERE BY APPROVED HARFORD TV BOARD, COUNCILMAN WAGNER MAY HAVE EMOTION MOVE THAT I'M MATT, LARGE SHIPPER, SCHIFFER MILLER BE APPOINTED TO THE HARTFORD TV ADVISORY BOARD.
IT'S MOVING A SECOND TO APPROVE THE NEW APPOINTMENT OF MATTHEW SCHIFFER MILLER.
WHO WAS THERE ANY DISCUSSION MS. DIXON, MR. JOHN, MR. WOODS, MR. JAMES JOVANA.
MR. SCHROEDER, MR. WAGON, MR. BIOLA, THEY'RE BEING SEVEN VOTES IN FRONT OF THEM IS ZERO AND A NEGATIVE.
THE APPOINTMENT IS HERE BY APPROVED EXECUTIVE APPOINTMENT COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES, COUNCILMAN JOHNSON.
I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR THE NEW APPOINTMENT AND THE REAPPOINTMENT TO THE COMMISSION ON DISABILITIES.
UH, PAR NO BOMBER, REBECCA COOK.
JAMIE BRUMMER, JAMES MORRISON, MARK WEINSTEIN, UH, AND MICHAEL MATHIAS.
IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED TO APPROVE THE NEW APPOINTMENTS AND REAPPOINTMENTS UH, IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION MS. DIXON, MR. PRESIDENT, MR. JOHNSON, MR. WOODS, MR. , MR. VIOLA BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND A NEGATIVE, THE APPOINTMENTS ARE HEREBY APPROVED OR ANY OF THESE INDIVIDUALS WITH THE SECEDING.
COULD YOU STAND PLEASE AND BE RECOGNIZED YOUR NAME, SIR.
UH, HARFORD COUNTY LIQUOR CONTROL BOARD.
I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE NEW APPOINTMENT OF WAYNE GODDER AND THE REAPPOINTMENT OF PULLMAN JUICY TO THE LIQUOR
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CONTROL BOARD.IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED TO APPROVE THE NEW APPOINTMENT OF WAYNE GOD AND REAPPOINTED OF PALMA JUICY.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION SEEING NONE MS. DIXON, MR. PRESIDENT, MR. JOHNSON, MR. WOODS, MR. .
MR. SHIRTS, MR. Y I'M BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND A NEGATIVE.
THE APPOINTMENTS ARE HERE BY APPROVED BOTH THOSE GENTLEMEN HERE WITH US.
COULD YOU PLEASE STAND UP AND BE RECOGNIZED? THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE, UH, COUNCIL AT THIS TIME, WE'LL GO IN AND ACT AS THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS AND RETURN BACK TO THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION THEREAFTER, UH, CASE NUMBER 59 37 PLATINUM CONSTRUCTION GROUP, LLC.
UM, ON FEBRUARY 8TH, 2022, WE HEARD A FINAL ARGUMENT IN THIS CASE.
UM, MR. WOODS, THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT, MR. PRESIDENT, I MOVED TO UPHOLD THE HEARING EXAMINERS RECOMMENDATION ON ZONING APPEALS, CASE NUMBER 5 9 3 7.
THANK YOU, MR. WAGNER, IT'S BEEN MOVED AND SECOND TO UPHOLD THE DECISIONS RECOMMENDED BY THE ZONING HEARING.
EXAMINERS ARE ANY DISCUSSION MR. WOODS.
ONCE AGAIN, IT'S JUST LIKE THE LAST COUPLE OF WHENEVER WE TALK ABOUT THE, UH, WE HAVE A MASTER PLAN IN PLACE.
UH, WE PUT THE MASTER PLAN IN PLACE FOR A REASON, I BELIEVE STRONGLY IN OUR MASTER PLAN.
AND, UH, THERE'S A CASE FOR REZONING COMING UP IN THE NEXT TERM.
PEOPLE HAVE THE OPTION TO RESIGN PROPERTY AND BRING IT TO THE COUNCIL AND PUT IT IN FRONT OF THE COMMUNITY AND THE PUBLIC, IF THEY WANT TO OBTAIN A PROPERTY OR A DOWN ZONE.
AND I BELIEVE THE HEARING EXAMINER HAD IT RIGHT GOING THIS WAY.
AND I WOULD APPRECIATE EACH MEMBER TO, TO UPHOLD THE HEARING EXAMINERS RECOMMENDATION.
ANYONE ELSE? MS. DIXON, THE PRESIDENT, MR. JOHNSON, MR. WOODS, MR. .
MR. WAGON, MR. VIOLA, IT BEING SEVEN VOTES IN THE AFFIRMATIVE ZERO AND A NEGATIVE, THE VOTE TO UPHOLD ATTENDING A HEARING EXAMINER'S DECISION IS HEREBY APPROVED, AGENDA ITEM NUMBER SIX, SPECIAL PRESENTATIONS.
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APPROVAL OF MINUTES, LEGISLATIVE DAY 22 DASH 0 0 9, MARCH 8TH, 2022.ARE THERE ANY CORRECTIONS TO THE MINUTES THERE BEING NO CORRECTIONS AND MEN STAND APPROVED, AGENDA NUMBER EIGHT, INTRODUCTION AND CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTIONS.
[9. INTRODUCTION OF BILLS]
NINE INTRODUCTION TO BILLS BILL 22 DASH 0 0 5 CHARTER AMENDMENT, MR. WAGON FOR THE QUARTERLY.AN ACTIVE PROPOSED AN AMENDMENT TO ARTICLE TWO LEGISLATIVE BRANCH OF THE HARTFORD COUNTY CHARTER AS AMENDED BY REPEALING AND REENACTING WITH AMENDMENT SECTION TWO 16 ON INTERFERENCE WITH EXECUTIVE BRANCH TO PROVIDE FOR ABILITY OF THE COUNTY COUNCIL TO DIRECTLY CONTACT OFFICERS, AGENTS, AND EMPLOYEES IN THE EXECUTIVE BRANCH FOR THE PURPOSE OF INQUIRY OR INFORMATION, AND TO REQUIRE THE SUBMISSION OF THIS AMENDMENT TO THE LEGALLY QUALIFIED VOTERS OF HARTFORD COUNTY FOR THEIR ADOPTION OR REJECTION IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 9 0 5 OF THE HARTFORD COUNTY CHARTER BY THE COUNCIL AND MARCH 15TH, 2022 INTEGERS INTRODUCE READ FIRST TIME ORDER POSTED IN PUBLIC HEARING SCHEDULED FOR APRIL 19TH, 2022 AT 7:15 PM.
UH, AGENDA ITEM NUMBERS, 10 THROUGH 14.
WE HAVE NO BUSINESSES EVENING.
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I'D LIKE TO GO PAST 15 AND START WITH, UH, BUSINESS FROM COUNCIL MEMBERS, AND I'D LIKE TO START WITH COUNCILMAN BEULAH THIS EVENING AND COME THIS WAY.YES, I'LL RESERVE MY COMMENTS FOR THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING.
THANK YOU, MR. BUELL AND MR. WAGNER, UM, THIS COMING FRIDAY, MARCH THE 18TH AT 11:00 AM AT MOUNT ZION BAPTIST CHURCH IN OLD POST ROAD IN ABERDEEN, THERE IS A, THE CHOSEN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION PRESENTS THE 2022 WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH AND RECOGNITION PROGRAM.
UH, THIS EVENT IS RECOGNIZED WOMEN LEADERS FROM THE COMMUNITY IN THE AREA OF COMMUNITY SERVICE, MILITARY EDUCATION AND MEDICAL IN THEIR SERVICE TO THE COMMUNITY.
UH, WE ALL WERE VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE, UH, THE CHOSEN, UH, GROUP AND CERTAINLY APPRECIATE ALL THEIR EFFORTS AND WHAT THEY DO THERE.
SO IF ANYBODY CAN MAKE THAT, UH, THAT'S ON FRIDAY MORNING AT EIGHT 11 O'CLOCK, UM, WE, I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT ONE THING THAT I THINK I BROUGHT UP SOME WEEKS AGO, WE WE'VE GOT A VERY IMPORTANT PROGRAM THAT WAS RUNNING AT THE CHURCH GO REC CENTER.
UH, THAT WAS THE THERAPEUTIC, UH, THE PICKLE BALL SIDE OF, UH, OF THE ACTIVITIES THERE FOR ADULTS, UH, AND CERTAINLY BENEFITED.
MANY OF THE, THERE ARE, ARE PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THAT SUFFER FROM PARKINSON'S AND, UH, THAT THAT PROGRAM HAS,
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UH, BEEN ALTERED AND, AND SORT OF SLIPPED AWAY A BIT AND, AND GOING A DIFFERENT ROUTE.AND, UH, I'M GETTING SOME, SOME COMPLAINTS FROM SOME OF THE ONES THAT, UH, ARE INVOLVED IN IT BECAUSE I KNOW COUNCILMAN BUELL AND I WENT THERE AND SAW WHAT A FINE, UH, WHAT A FINE JOB AND, AND THE STORIES WE HEARD FROM THOSE THAT BENEFITED FROM THE PICKLE BALL FOR, UH, THEIR, THEIR PARKINSON'S.
SO I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT THAT THAT'S, THAT'S OUT THERE AND I'D LIKE TO SEE IT RESTORED, OR AT LEAST, UH, UH, PUT BACK IN A PLACE WHERE IT BENEFITS THE COMMUNITY, THAT IT WAS DOING A GREAT JOB WITH AND NOT SEE IT GO AWAY.
UH, MR. SCHROEDER, I HAVE NOTHING TONIGHT, MAN.
YEAH, THANK YOU, COUNCIL PRESIDENT.
UM, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY ONE THING, THE GENTLEMAN THAT SAT AT THIS DESK TODAY SAID HE KNEW ALL OF US.
I DO NOT KNOW THAT MAN, AND I'VE NEVER MET THAT MAN.
AND I WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR WHAT HIS NAME WAS.
WELL, I I'M THANKFUL TO BE BACK.
IT WAS A LONG TIME, BUT I'M HERE.
IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE I'M GOING ANYWHERE ELSE ANYWHERE SOON.
I ALSO WANT TO THANK THE STAFF AND EVERYONE HERE THAT HELPED, UH, MAKE SURE EVERYONE THAT CAME INTO THE OFFICE SENT ME, UH, PRESENTATIONS.
I HAD EVERYTHING IN FRONT OF ME ALL THE TIME.
I WAS ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH EVERYTHING JOINED IN ON MEETINGS BY PHONE CALLS.
UH, ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS HELPED WITH THAT AND THANKFUL FOR ALL OF YOU TAKING MY OPINIONS, MAKE IT A STAY BUSY, ATTENDED EVERY MEETING WITH MAACO, LOOKING FORWARD TO OUR VERY FIRST BACK SESSION MEETING, WHICH IS COMING UP.
MAACO HAS BEEN OUT OF SESSION ALL VIRTUAL AND FULL TIME.
SO I'M GETTING BACK JUST IN TIME TO GO BACK TO MEETINGS IN PERSON.
SO I'M EXCITED ABOUT THAT ONCE AGAIN, JOE.
SO, UH, ONCE AGAIN, I JUST WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR PATIENTS, THE CALLS, THE SUPPORT WHILE I WAS GONE.
AND BEFORE THE REST OF THIS TERM HAVE A GREAT NIGHT.
THANK YOU, MR. WOODS, MR. JOHNSON.
COUNCIL PRESIDENT COUNCIL, UM, WOODS.
I WAS GETTING USED TO SPREAD NOW, TOOK MY LAND KINDA UPSET ABOUT THAT.
UM, I, I JUST BRIEFLY, I JUST HAVE, UH, ONE COMMENT, UM, AND I'M GONNA, YOU KNOW, BE GETTING WITH MY COLLEAGUES, UM, TO TALK ABOUT THE HEALTH OFFICER, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, THE ACT AND HEALTH OFFICER.
WE DON'T HAVE ANY LEGISLATION THAT, THAT DETERMINES HOW MUCH TIME A PERSON, SINCE WE ARE THE BOARD OF HEALTH THAT A PERSON CAN, CAN BE IN AN ACTING POSITION.
SO I'M GOING TO BE, UM, PUTTING FORTH SOME LEGISLATION, LOOKING AT SOME LEGISLATION TO PUT FORWARD TO, UH, TO SPECIFY HOW LONG, UH, THE HEALTH OFFICER CAN WORK IN AN ACTING POSITION.
AND THUS, UH, WE START, UH, TAKING THAT OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK FOR A PERMANENT SOLUTION AT THE, AT THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
SO, UM, I'M JUST, UH, PUTTING THAT OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, ALONG TO MY, TO MY COLLEAGUES THAT, UH, THAT, UM, I AM GOING TO BE PURSUING LEGISLATION THAT DETERMINES THE TIME, THE TIMEFRAME THAT A PERSON CAN BE IN AN ACTING ROLE.
SO, UH, WITH THAT COUNCIL PRESIDENT, I'LL YIELD MY TIME BACK.
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BACK TO AGENDA ITEM 15 BUSINESS FROM THE PRESENT, UM, OUR FISCAL YEAR 23 COUNCIL BUDGET WORK SESSIONS, UH, SCHEDULE HAS BEEN SET.UH, WE WILL SIT MONDAY, APRIL 25TH, TUESDAY, APRIL 26TH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27TH AND THURSDAY, APRIL 28TH.
ALL OF THOSE WORK SESSIONS WILL BE LIVE STREAMED AND AVAILABLE AND ARCHIVED ON OUR WEBSITE, UH, WORK SESSIONS.
UM, IN ADDITION TO THOSE WORK SESSIONS OF COUNCIL WILL HOLD, UH, TO FISCAL YEAR 23 BUDGET PUBLIC HEARINGS, UH, WEDNESDAY, MAY 4TH, UH, HERE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT 7:00 PM AND WEDNESDAY, MAY 11TH.
UH, ALSO HERE IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AT 7:00 PM.
UM, BOTH BUDGET PUBLIC HEARINGS WILL BE LIVE STREAMED AND ARCHIVED AS WELL ON THE COUNCIL WEBSITE.
UM, AND WITH THAT, I BELIEVE THAT'S ALL I HAVE TONIGHT.
UM, I KNOW I, I AM GOING TO SAY THAT, UM, SEVERAL OF US ATTENDED, UH, POST 55, UH, SATURDAY MORNING IN THE SNOW STORM, UH, TO HEAR AND GET TO MEET THE NATIONAL COMMANDER FOR THE AMERICAN LEGION, UM, GREAT EVENT, VERY WELL ATTENDED.
UH, THERE WERE, UM, I GUESS, LEGIONNAIRES FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY.
AND I BELIEVE IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY APPEAL THAT HE CAME FROM TEXAS, DIDN'T HE? RIGHT? YES.
I WAS GLAD TO BE THERE AND, UM, POST 55 IS DOING A GREAT JOB.
AND, AND REMEMBER THAT WAS ALSO A LOVE OF, UH, UH, JIM MCMAHON AS WELL.
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HE DID FOR YES.AND THE AFROBEAT HILL AND THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE, THEY WERE RECOGNIZING AND CELEBRATING.
[17. COMMENTS AND INPUT FROM ATTENDING CITIZENS]
AGENDA NUMBER 17 COMMENTS AND INPUT FROM ATTENDING CITIZENS.MS. DICKSON PRECEDENT WE HAVE FOR TONIGHT.
UM, MARY LEE STRITCH FOLLOWED BY JOHN MALAMA NOW MR. MILANA.
WEREN'T YOU HERE EARLIER IN THE SEASON.
AREN'T YOU DONE? HAVE YOU DONE WHAT I ASKED? NO, SIR.
JOHN P MALLAMO 24 0 2 EAGLE VIEW DRIVE.
AT THIS POINT, THE COUNTY ADMINISTRATION APPEARS TO HAVE FOUR OPTIONS.
ONE ENFORCED THE CODE AND UPHOLD THE HEARING EXAMINERS DECISION AS PROPERLY REQUIRED, COULD BE INCONVENIENT AT BEST TO OPERATE ANY AIRPORT DESCRIBED IN THE APPROVED SITE PLAN FOR THE OWNERS COUNTY ADMINISTRATION AND COUNTY COUNCIL TO RECOMMEND A CHANGE TO THE CODE.
THIS COULD ELIMINATE REQUIREMENTS THAT CANNOT BE MET.
IT ALSO EXPOSED THE CURIOUS EXISTING PROCESSES AND FURTHER ERODES THE CONCEPT OF GOVERNMENT AND GOVERNANCE IN HARFORD COUNTY.
THREE, CONTINUE TO RECOGNIZE THE HARTFORD COUNTY AIRPORT AS A NON-CONFORMING USE USE REVIEWING A, THE BOARD OF APPEALS HEARING EXAMINER RECOMMENDED APPROVAL FOR THE REQUESTED SPECIAL EXCEPTION OPERATED GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORT AS A PERMITTED USE IN ZONING CASE 58, 14, THE, THE BOARD OF APPEALS RATIFIED AND ADOPTED THAT RECOMMENDATION AS THEIR FINAL DECISION C CIRCUIT COURT FOR HARFORD COUNTY CASE 12, C 14 32 0 5 AFFIRMED IN UPHELD THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS HEARING EXAMINER DECISION D M.CASE M DOT MAA 20 17 0 5 400 QUOTING BASED UPON THE UNDISPUTED FACTS.
THE ALJ CORRECTLY FOUND THAT HARFORD COUNTY AIRPORT IS PROPERLY OPERATING AS A GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORT AS A PERMITTED USE BY SPECIAL EXCEPTION LAND USE APPROVALS FOR THE HARTFORD COUNTY AIRPORT WERE ISSUED BY THE HEARING EXAMINER C R E CIRCUIT COURT FOR HARFORD COUNTY CASE C 12, CV 18 1 27 AA CONSOLIDATED RESPONSE FROM HARP HARE, AIRPORT OWNERS GROUP AND HARFORD COUNTY QUOTING RESPONDENTS HAVE BEEN OPERATING PURSUANT TO THE SPECIAL EXCEPTION.
SINCE THAT STATUS WAS CONFIRMED ESTABLISHED BY THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS IN CASE 58, 14 GENTLEMEN, THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE A LEGAL BASIS OR SUPPORT FOR THIS OPTION.
IT'S AN UNDISPUTED FACT THAT THE HARTFORD COUNTY AIRPORT IS A GENERAL AVIATION AIRPORT OPERATING BY SPECIAL EXCEPTION AS A PERMITTED USE.
THERE ARE CONSEQUENCES FOR THIS OPTION, A A LEGAL REVIEW OF THE POSSIBILITY OF REVIVING THE NON-CONFORMING USE BROUGHT TO CONFORMITY BY SPECIAL EXCEPTION WOULD BE REQUIRED A MATTER FOR THE COURTS, NOT THE DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND ZONING OR THE ZONING BOARD OF APPEALS B RESTORE THE AIRPORT TO ITS CONDITION.
WHEN IT FIRST BECAME A NON-CONFORMING USE TO DETERMINE THE REDUCED SCOPE OF EXTENSION OR ENLARGEMENT PERMITTED BY SECTION 2 6, 7 DASH 21 OF THE ZONING CODE BY LAW, ONLY THAT PORTION OF THE AIRPORT MEETING THE REDUCED REQUIREMENTS OF THE ZONING CODE COULD CONTINUE TO OPERATE C BOARD OF APPEAL, APPEALS APPROVAL OF A SITE PLAN IN ANY PROJECT FOR THE EXTENSION ENLARGEMENT OF THE AIRPORT, AND DETERMINE HOW MUCH OF THE OPERATION COULD BE CONDUCTED IN THE AG DISTRICT.
IF ANY, FINALLY IGNORE THE PROBLEM AND HOPE NOBODY NOTICES A BIT LATE FOR THAT.
THESE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO MAKE DECISIONS ABOUT LIFE AND HARFORD COUNTY.
I HAVE NO COMPETENCE IN THEIR JUDGMENT OR DECISIONS.
I UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE HAVE NO CONFIDENCE IN GOVERNMENT.
I'M LEFT TO WONDER WHETHER THIS IS LOW LEVEL AND COMPETENCE OR HIGH LEVEL CORRUPTION.
PLEASE GET BACK TO ME ON THAT GOOD NIGHT.
ROMMEL CRABTREE FOLLOWED BY JILLIAN MILLER.
COUNCIL PRESIDENT NUMBERS OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS OF THE AUDIENCE, RONALD CRABTREE, 8 0 1 CEDAR LANE LAST WEEK WAS BORN.
NUMBER ONE PART ONE, AND THAT WAS, UH, ILLEGALLY POSTED SIGNS IN PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAYS.
THIS WEEK IS WHAT I'VE CONSIDERED TO BE A BIT MORE SERIOUS, ALTHOUGH NOT AS VOLUMINOUS.
AND THAT IS ILLEGALLY POSTED SIGNS ON PRIVATE PROPERTY.
I ALREADY HAVE SOME CASES WHERE I HAVE THE LANDOWNER PREPARED TO SIGN AN AFFIDAVIT, AND I KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING THERE AND I'VE SPENT TIME LOOKING, UH, AND I'LL GET BACK TO THAT IN A MINUTE.
SO WHAT I WANT TO TELL YOU IS, IS THAT THAT'S, THAT'S PART TWO POSTING SIGNS ILLEGALLY ON PRIVATE PROPERTIES, ESSENTIALLY CONVERTING SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY, YOUR PRIVATE USE WITHOUT PERMISSION.
IT'S NOT A GOOD THING IT'S KNOWN AS THEFT.
SO NOW YOU'RE NOT JUST DOING, UH, YOU KNOW, A SIGNED CASE.
THAT'S A CRIMINAL MISDEMEANOR.
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NOW, NOW WE'RE UP TO CONVERSION OF SOMEONE'S PROPERTY, JUST NOT GOOD.SO AGAIN, THIS MESSAGE IS NOT JUST FOR THESE PEOPLE HERE AT THIS BODY TONIGHT.
I'M JUST USING THE OPPORTUNITY THAT THIS BODY PROVIDES TO HELP GET THE MESSAGE OUT TO EVERYONE WHO'S RUNNING.
AND AGAIN, I DON'T CARE WHO YOU ARE.
I DON'T CARE WHAT OFFICE YOU'RE RUNNING FOR.
IF YOU'RE POSTING SIGNS THERE, LEGALLY, I'M HUNTING YOU DOWN TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY.
AND TO THE EXTENT I FAIL, I'M SORRY.
NOW LET ME GET ONTO SOMETHING A LITTLE NICER THAN THAT.
ONE OF THE THINGS I REGRETTED NOT GETTING TO LAST WEEK WAS THAT I KNOW.
AND MOST OF YOU GUYS KNOW, AND AGAIN BY YOU GUYS, I MEAN, ALL OF YOU RUNNING THAT A GOOD MAJORITY OF YOU FOLLOW THE RULES.
AND I WANTED TO SAY, THANK YOU TO YOU FOR THAT.
AND I WANTED TO SAY A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE, THANK YOU FOR THAT, RIGHT? AND I JUST DIDN'T GET TO IT LAST WEEK.
SO I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WHERE WE SEE POSITIVE CONSTRUCTION, WHERE WE SEE PEOPLE DOING THEIR BEST TO FOLLOW THE RULES.
IF THEY MESS UP A LITTLE BIT HERE OR THERE AND CRINGE A LITTLE BIT HERE OR THERE, WE CAN STILL TELL THAT THEY DID THEIR BEST TO FOLLOW THE RULES.
NOW, WHAT THAT ALSO TELLS US THOUGH, IS, IS THAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE I'M ADDRESSING KNOW THE RULES AND THAT MEANS THEY KNOW WHAT I KNOW.
SO IF YOU GUYS THAT ARE OUT THERE BREAKING THESE RULES, THANK YOU.
JUST GOING TO GET AWAY WITH IT.
NOW, THE FACT IS IT'S TREATED AS DIRTY LAUNDRY.
MOST PEOPLE DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT, BUT IT'S NOT THAT PEOPLE DON'T NOTICE.
SO I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU AGAIN, YOU'VE GOT A SHOT HERE TO CLEAN UP YOUR APP, TAKE IT THE NEXT MEETING'S NOT FOR TWO WEEKS.
AND AT SOME POINT IN THE NEAR FUTURE, I WILL BE NAMING NAMES.
I KNOW THAT'S AN UGLY THING TO HAVE TO DO, BUT YOU'VE GOTTEN TWO SHOTS OVER THE BOW.
IF YOU CAN'T FIGURE OUT HOW TO CLEAN IT UP, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO TELL YOU.
GOOD EVENING, GENTLEMEN, DO I GET SIX MINUTES SINCE NO.
UM, TONIGHT I'M HERE TO ADULT.
TONIGHT I'M HERE TO ADDRESS NOT ONLY A NATIONWIDE PROBLEM, BUT A HARTFORD COUNTY PROBLEM.
THERE ARE CIVIL LIBERTIES AT RISK.
EVERY TIME WE MEET, WHICH INCLUDE FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION, FREEDOM OF ASSEMBLY AND THE FREEDOM OF EQUAL TREATMENT.
LET ME GIVE YOU SOME BACKGROUND ON MYSELF.
I KNOW I LOOK 20 SOMETHING, BUT I HAVE WORKED IN THIS FIELD WITH ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES FOR UPWARDS OF 15 YEARS.
I AM THE PROGRAM SUPERVISOR OF AN ADULT DAY HABILITATION PROGRAM HERE IN HARFORD COUNTY AND WITNESSED THE LACK OF ACCESSIBILITY DAILY.
I'M HERE TO ADVOCATE FOR CHANGE IN THIS COUNTY, THE ADA ACT PROHIBITS DISCRIMINATION AGAINST PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES, INCLUDING TRANSPORTATION, PUBLIC ACCOMMODATIONS, COMMUNICATIONS, AND ACCESS TO STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT PROGRAMS AND SERVICES AND NOT HAVING APPROPRIATE TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE TO ATTEND MEETINGS SUCH AS THIS DUE TO TIME RESTRAINTS THAT AFFECTS OUR ADULTS WITH DISABILITIES.
AND WE ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE AND NOT HAVING A VIRTUAL OPTION WITH CLOSED CAPTIONS.
LET ME SHARE WITH YOU THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ACCESSIBILITY AND FRIENDLY.
IF I UTILIZE A WHEELCHAIR, I WOULD STRUGGLE GETTING UP THIS VERY THIN SIDEWALK HERE.
I WOULD STRUGGLE TO COME THROUGH ALL OF THE DOUBLE DOORS AND I WOULD STRUGGLE TO NAVIGATE MY WAY THROUGH THESE CHAIRS AND THIS ROOM BY DEFINITION, IT'S ACCESSIBLE, BUT AT FACE VALUE, IT'S NOT FRIENDLY.
I ASK THAT YOU ALL PUT YOURSELVES IN THE SHOES OF AN ADULT WITH A DISABILITY WHO IS NOT ABLE TO LIVE A MEANINGFUL LIFE ON A DAILY BASIS BECAUSE OF THESE BOUNDARIES.
THINK ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO MANEUVER WHEN YOU INJURED YOUR LEG.
PRESIDENT VINCENTE, THINK ABOUT HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS TO LIVE IN YOUR HOME.
THAT WAS ONCE EASILY MANEUVERABLE AFTER YOUR WIFE'S SURGERY.
IMAGINE LIVING THAT LIFE DAILY AND KNOWING THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE WITH THE POWER TO CHANGE IT, BUT CHOOSE NOT TO GENTLEMEN, I ASKED THAT YOU THINK ABOUT WHAT LIFE WOULD BE IF ONLY YOUR BASIC NEEDS WERE MET, NO ENTERTAINMENT, NO HANGING OUT WITH FRIENDS CHOICE IN WHICH ORDER YOUR DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENTS ARE AND PERSONAL TASKS.
AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, NO WAY TO ADVOCATE FOR THINGS YOU BELIEVE WITHIN OUR POLITICAL STRUCTURE.
THEN THINK ABOUT WHAT IS IN YOUR POWER TO IMPROVE THAT THERE ARE NO MORE SPEAKERS CISCO FOR THAT.
THERE'S NO ONE ELSE SIGNED UP.
THIS MEETING WILL BE ADJOURNED.