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By THE CAPITAL EDITORIAL BOARD

KENT ISLAND MADNESS -- If you live on Kent Island and read articles about the governor's Smart Growth program, you have to be wondering how the Queen Anne's County commissioners can be approving plans for massive growth.

Smart Growth looks to be Gov. Parris N. Glendening's claim to fame after he leaves state government. The program encourages growth in already-developed areas, rather than in undeveloped rural areas. It's basically an attempt to control urban and suburban sprawl across the state.

Kent Island is hardly one of those developed areas. But the county commissioners have granted preliminary approval for a 1,350-home development in Stevensville. It is the largest ever planned for the island, but hardly the only one. Others are in the pipeline.

Given the size of these projects and their certain impact on Kent Island, they hardly sound like "smart growth" to us.

Published August 21, 2001, The Capital, Annapolis, Md.
Copyright © 2001 The Capital, Annapolis, Md.

Note from KIDL: The following quote is from The Capital on 8/15/01 after the KIDL filed an appeal on August 8th to the Critical Area Commission's approval of growth allocation of Four Seasons,
The Q.A.C. Commissioners approved the Growth Allocation "ordinance" on Aug 21,
one week after Mr. O'Donnell's comment , quote which follows below:

"County Commissioners President George O'Donnell said the Kent Island Defense League should have waited to go to the courts until at least after hearing the commissioners' final decision on the project. He didn't expect the commissioners to vote on it anytime in the 'near future.' " The Capital August 15, 2001

KIDL Web Guy Asks...

Mr. O'Donnell, what is your definition of 'near future'? ... you voted YES the next week, on the 21st.
Was the Vote listed on the agenda? Our observer did not see it.

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