Climate Action Plan

Baltimore Region Climate Action Plan Are you worried about how climate change impacts the Baltimore region? Discover how Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC) is working to reduce pollution through our climate action plans. Learn how you can get involved below. Make your voice heard by participating in our public survey before November 11th!  Join Read more…

Councilman Marks: “None of Gerst Farm development will advance until two new schools move forward.”

Fort Howard Community Association applauds Baltimore County 5th District Council-member Mr. David Marks as a model for all Council-members to emulate his “Community First,” commitment. Fort Howard Community Association was railroaded before the Baltimore County Board of  Appeals by developer Craftsmen Homes and their Baltimore County Zoning Go-To $400 an Read more…

SUPPORT OUR POLICE

The 7th District Civic Council of Baltimore County published a letter requesting Redwood Capital Investments, owners of Tradepoint Atlantic located in Sparrows Point, Maryland to “SUPPORT OUR POLICE. ” Fort Howard Community Association is a Council Member. The full content of the letter follows. Redwood Capital Investments 7301 Parkway Drive Read more…

Open Letter to Amazon Distribution at Sparrows Point, Maryland

Mr. Jeff Bezos CEO, President & Chairman of the Board of Directors Amazon 410 Terry Ave. N Seattle, WA 98109 1-206-266-1000 https://ir.aboutamazon.com                                       Re:  Errant Amazon Tractor Trailer Traffic in Fort Howard, Maryland Dear Mr. Bezos, Please be advised since the opening of the Amazon distribution warehouse at the Tradepoint Read more…

Tradepoint Atlantic Environmental Cleanup Meeting October 3, 2019

The Maryland Department of Environment and United StatesEnvironmental Protection Agency (MDE/EPA) is hosting a joint public informational meeting on developer Tradepoint Atlantic’s Environmental Hazardous Waste Cleanup status at the North Point Library, 1716 Merritt Blvd., Dundalk, MD on October 3rd, 2019 starting at 6:30 P.M. Tradepoint Atlantic’s Environmental Hazardous Waste Read more…

Bay 101: Air Pollution

For two generations Fort Howard residents have been plagued with particulate and noxious air emitted from various industrial stationary and mobile sources at adjacent Sparrows Point Peninsula across Old Road Bay. The Clean Air Act was the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s federal response to those decades establishing a set of principal air Read more…

Sparrows Point Development Taxpayer Funding

  Redwood Capital Investment holding,Tradepoint Atlantic, released on October 17, 2018  their 304 page Tax Incremental Funding application for $120,000,000 submitted to the Baltimore County Department of Labor and Economic Development in Spring 2018.  Tax Incremental Funding Application The application will be reviewed on the merits how Baltimore County taxpayers Read more…

MDOT Chesapeake Bay Crossing Study Meetings

As an international logistics gateway, Trade Point Atlantic’s projected 28,000 tractor trailer trips per day may have several future traffic and environmental impacts on the communities surrounding the new bay bridge crossing.  To assure that all branches of government give proper consideration to the environment the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)  policy Read more…

MDE Grants Permit Comment Period Extention

Ms. Leah Kelly of Environmental Integrity Project requested on behalf of Fort Howard Community Association an extension of the comment period for the Access World LLC’s commodity grinding and pulverizing processing permit. Mrs. Shannon Heafey of MDE’s Air Quality Permits Program Air and Radiation Administration has favorably replied in the following.   Read more…