In 2016 CZMP, Councilman Todd Crandell reduced the former Fort Howard Veterans Administration Medical Center zoning density from from DR-5.5 (5 1/2 houses per acre) to DR-1 ( one house per acre) .
This 2020 Baltimore County Comprehensive Zoning Mapping Process (CZMP) Fort Howard Community Association articulated to Baltimore County Councilman Todd Crandell, the Council, and the Planning Department its unwavering support of the 2019 CZMP DR-1 zoning decision, that it is maintained, and the 2020 CZMP Log Issue 7-015 petition to increase the former medical center zoning to DR-5.5 is DENIED in the following letter..
November 23, 2019
Baltimore County Council
Historic Courthouse
400 Washington Avenue
Towson, Maryland 21204
Re: CZMP Issue Number 7-015 Request
Baltimore County Councilman Todd Crandell, Council Members & Planning Department:
The residents of Fort Howard, Maryland oppose approval of Baltimore County 2020 Comprehensive Mapping Process (CZMP) Log of Issues-District 7 Issue Number 7-015 where petitioner Himmelrich Associates Inc. requests the existing 96.69 acreage DR 1 zoning, located at the Intersection of Gettysburg and Blank Avenue (known as the Fort Howard Veterans Administration Property) be changed to DR 5.5; and furthermore, in light of this Issue Number 7-015 public opposition, that the County Council raise a zoning request to the Baltimore County Planning Department on or before Friday November 29, 2019 opposing that CZMP Issue Number 7-015 zoning petition.
Kindly note time is of the essence in this matter as technically the closing date for County Council requests is Friday November 29, 2019, the day after Thanksgiving Holiday, leaving this Monday the 25th, Tuesday the 26th, and Wednesday the 27th time to submit your request.
Thank you in advance for your representation in this CZMP Issue Number 7-015 matter.
Most respectfully yours,
Scott Pappas
President, FHCA
FHCA CZMP LETTER PDF
Please consider the attached letter from Millers Island Edgemere Business Association Chairman Mr. Michael L. McKemy also opposing the above mentioned zoning changes.
MIEBA CZMP LETTER PDF
You can show your support maintaining the DR-1 zoning designation at https://www.change.org/p/planning-baltimorecountymd-gov-fort-howard-va-property-zoning
4 Comments
Larry DiLegge · November 25, 2019 at 4:56 pm
This zoning change request on this federally owned land will, if passed, forever change the character of thIs beautiful area. Both the adjoining Fort Howard Park, donated to Baltimore County for public use. and North Point State Park with its surrounding agricultural easement lands create one of the last open space corridors in the county for wildlife including being a major mid-Atlantic birding destination. The lease should have been terminated by the VA after the first development fiasco, instead it gets passed on for one developer to another in the hope that the wrong county administration will finally approve it. Back In 2016 the County County reaffirmed the existing DR-1 zoning. I’m waiting to see how our new county administration will view this zoning request: as an opportunity for developers or for the enjoyment of the citizens of this state. Fort Howard should never be redeveloped as residential housing, it’s too important historically and would be an affront to the service men and women who worked and died there.
BILL JOHNS · November 26, 2019 at 9:16 am
IF FORT HOWARD IS DEVELOPED INTO A CROWDED COMMUNITY ,IT WILL BE BECAUSE OF THE GREED OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. JUST LOOK AT SHAWS DISCOVERY. FAMILY SOLD LAND FOR PEANUTS, JOHNNY O AND KAMENENTZ TURNED IT INTO GOLD FOR THEMSELVES………………….
Linda Traylor · March 12, 2020 at 10:58 pm
I would like zoning to remain the same for this small town of 200 houses. We have a beautiful
Area that has been mostly forgotten by the county. There are no sidewalks, a colonial road without
A shoulder, lacking storms drains for homes because the county covered them with asphalt many years ago.
Fort Howard Park is very simplistic too. We like it this way! We don’t need a crowded development of cookie
Cutter town homes and continuous traffic right driving through our neighborhood. 600 plus homes
Is too much. We don’t care if a Cafe is built there or other amenities, or the homes are constructed with
Designer features at the site. Take these grand plans to another location.
Linda Traylor · March 12, 2020 at 11:15 pm
Fort Howard is a small town of 200 homes. We have a colonial road that cuts through our
Town. There are no sidewalks, curbs, shoulders or storm drains after the County covered
Them with asphalt. Fort Howard Park does not have very many amenities but we like it
That way! Nature is more beautiful than cookie cutter town homes, cafes, coffee shops etc.
600 + homes would overwhelm this quaint community. There is no place for the traffic to
Go except our neighborhood. No zoning change I say. Take these development plans to
Another location.
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