The VPC board has authorized funding for a study of two intersections on Shawan Road and Tufton Avenue. A preliminary meeting and site visit is planned for this month with a consulting team comprised of [...]
House Bill 1241, which would have prohibited substations greater than five acres in size from being located in Maryland Rural Legacy Areas, failed to pass during the legislative session that concluded on April 11. The [...]
Baltimore County's Department of Public Works will hold its third annual public meeting to discuss upcoming plans and projects for rural roads and bridges on April 26 at Oregon Ridge Lodge. The meeting is set [...]
Current owners of the tennis barns at Greenspring Station (Herb Fredeking and Tom Peddy operating as Foxleigh Management) have been meeting with leaders of neaby community groups to share their latest plan for redevelopment of [...]
Baltimore County's Department of Public Works (DPW) has posted plans for the widening of the Shawan Road/Cuba Road/Beaver Dam Road intersection. They are receiving comments through the end of March. VPC has had many hours of [...]
There was a good showing at the bill hearing in Annapolis on March 18. Many residents concerned about mega substations in Rural Legacy Areas turned out to hear Del. Dana Stein present HB1241 before the [...]
BGE Substation in Piney Run Rural Legacy Area The VPC board has created a new special project focused on the proposed electric substation proposed by BGE. The facility is planned on the former Camp Holiday [...]
By Nancy Jones The question from Hanover Road residents was simple: why build an electric substation in the middle of rural Baltimore County? The answer from BGE officials also was simple: the parcel is the [...]
By Michael Ruby One of the last vestiges of a bygone time peopled by such notables as E Scott Fitzgerald and H.L Mencken soon may be changing hands. The historic Valley Inn, located at 10501 [...]