It's the Environment stupid...

or at least it is one important aspect of the Pro vs Con (Development) debate playing out in Columbia and here in Eldersburg (to a lesser extent).

Steve has a good post on this blog (http://stevefine.blogspot.com/) posted @ 11:25 today... he makes a very good point.

The Freedom Area Alliance held a meeting this past Thursday where two of the County Commissioners spoke about a few hot issues in the area. The majority of the meeting involved a lively discussion dealing with the increases in our water/sewer bills and the fight against further developments in our area.

My personal view is we should spend less time opposing all development and more time planning for controlled growth. If we stick our heads in the sand and continue to say not in our backyard... we will eventually end up with the worst type of development... unplanned



An interesting idea was discussed by Commissioner Zimmer dealing with extending Route 29 through Carroll county by relabeling a few existing highways... details can be found here. Could be an "out of the box" idea for obtaining federal highway funding but all of the ramifications need to be investigated.