Bay Condominium's election more of same

By MARGOT MOHSBERG, Kent Island Staff Writer

Despite a burst of controversy in the weeks preceding Saturday's election, the Bay Condominium Association's board doesn't look much different now.

Four of the five members will remain on the board. The fifth, Joanne Connelly, was replaced by Joe Carmody.

Re-elected were President Leslie D. Adams, Vice President Bill Webster, Treasurer Ken Kline and Secretary Jack Phares.

Mr. Adams would not say who the other candidates were or how many votes each candidate received. The candidates with the most votes win seats on the board and the board votes on the officers.

However, Winn Krozack confirmed that his and Bob Burns' names were on the ballot.

"My wife put my name in but I didn't take it too seriously because I didn't want to diffuse the votes from Bob and Joe," Mr. Krozack said. "I'm glad we got Joe in."

The trio were among a group of residents who railed against Mr. Adams for writing a friendly letter to the developer of the controversial Four Seasons at Kent Island community proposed next to Bayside.

In the Feb. 26 letter, Mr. Adams said Bayside would not oppose K. Hovnanian Cos.' plans for the 1,350-home community despite residents' concerns about the height of the homes.

Writing on behalf of the board, he called Four Seasons "an admired addtion" that will be a "difficult model for future developers to live up to."

However, many of the residents in the 280-home community said they did not share the views expressed in the letter.

To prove their point, Mr. Krozack reached 150 of the 280 Bayside homeowners for an informal poll. Of those, 85 said they were against Four Seasons, 12 were for it, 39 had mixed feelings and 14 had no opinion, he said.

After receiving the poll, the Bayside board met on March 26 to approve a letter to the Queen Anne's County Board of Commissioners clarifying its opinon of Four Seasons -- that it didn't oppose it but was concerned about the height of a group of homes.

Mr. Adams refused to comment on the board's first letter, the March 26 meeting or the March 27 letter.

However, Mr. Krozack said the letter made many residents feel better about the board's previous stance on the issue.

"Whether (the board) really came around, I don't know. But the letter they sent to the commissioners sounded like they did," he said.

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