State funds for Howard park delayed

September 23, 2004 -- Howard County MD

Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., State Comptroller William Donald Schaefer and State Treasurer Nancy K. Kopp postponed the vote while their staffs investigate opposition to three lighted athletic fields and the overall size and scope of the park. Approval of a $534,114 installment on the project needed to build five athletic fields, roadways and parking lots at the Glenwood park has been delayed pending the outcome of the neighbors objections

Warren E. Miller, a western county Republican lawmaker said he wasn't in office when the county approved the plans, but added that the county has run roughshod over local objections to the park. There's a huge amount of outrage in Glenwood."

Joan M. Becker, a park neighbor attacked the concept of the park, saying that her three children play sports and have enough fields in other places to use. "What began in 1994 as a simple park has now turned into a sports complex," she said.
The Baltimore Sun --September 23, 2004

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