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By MARGOT MOHSBERG, Kent Island Staff Writer Many Bayside residents aren't sure who they'll vote for in their condominium association's board of directors at the April 7 election. But some are certain it won't be the board's current president, Leslie D. Adams, who is one of two incumbents running this year along with at least three new candidates so far. They're furious about a letter he wrote to the K. Hovnanian Cos. last month saying Bayside won't oppose the developer's plans for the 1,350-home Four Seasons community. Mr. Adams said he sent the letter after the Bayside Condominium Association's five-member board in February agreed informally to send it. "We didn't say that we support the project. We said that we're not opposed to it. But I'm sure a lot of people will look at it that way," Mr. Adams said. Bayside resident Sharon L. Johnson is one of them. "The views that are being expressed by our condo association are not the views of myself or of other residents here," she said. Bayside resident Winn Krozak was also fuming over the letter. Mr. Adams "calls the Four Seasons project an "admired addition' that will be a "difficult model for future developers to live up to,'" said Mr. Krozack, a vehement opponent of the project. He said most of his neighbors also don't want the Four Seasons project, mostly because of traffic, environmental and quality-of-life concerns. Mr. Krozack reached 150 of the 280 Bayside homeowners for an informal poll last weekend, he said. Of those, 85 said they were against Four Seasons, 12 were for it, 39 had mixed feelings and 14 had no opinion, he said. Mr. Krozack included the list of the people he polled in a letter sent to Mr. Adams on Monday. "Feel free to call them," Mr. Krozack wrote. "I'm sure they would like to speak to you. You should have done that before you sent off the letter." Mr. Adams defended the board's Feb. 26 letter as a natural response to the developer's concessions over the proposed gated adult community, Mr. Adams said. He said K. Hovnanian had previously sent a list of changes including placement of buildings, landscape buffers, location of sidewalks, water service and traffic improvements. A majority of the board then agreed to send an "acknowledgement letter" confirming that the board received the Hovnanian letter, Mr. Adams said. "K. Hovnanian tried very hard to meet our demands. There's nothing short of no development -- which is not possible -- that would be better than K. Hovnanian in our opinion." Board member Jack H. Phares said residents are unfairly blaming Mr. Adams for the letter. "In no way was this the activity
of any single board member," said Mr. Phares in a letter sent to Mr. Krozack
on Sunday. "On the contrary, it represent the spirited input of all five
board members and other Bayside residents with special expertise over many
months and hundreds of hours."
Published March 21, 2001,
The
Capital, Annapolis, Md.
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