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10 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - Rodgers Forge board lo... · 0 replies · +3 points

30% federal tax credit http://goo.gl/EzmwZL

10 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - Mom enacts No Technolo... · 0 replies · +2 points

If you say "no technology" Mon-Fri, are you indirectly saying it will be maximum or all-technology throughout the weekend?

10 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - Rodgers Forge board lo... · 1 reply · +4 points

Like to see some kind of compromise on this one >> how about rear of the house facing panels only? That would leave fewer objections. There's an excellent turn-key solar-hot-water sys requiring only 2-3 panels w/ payback 3.-7 yrs, 30% cost tax credit, lower start up cost than solar photovoltaic (PV) sys.

10 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - Recap of last night�... · 0 replies · +1 points

Isn't the fire station parcel adjacent to the Imaculate / Towson Catholic playing fields? Maybe the idea would be to share for the state-required amount of open space and athletic fields? The Westies have to manage with a lot less space and that's a state of the art elem. school.

10 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - BCPS suggests tearing ... · 0 replies · +5 points

Its always about the land. A new school in a neighborhood without one makes the most sense. I'll be fine with a new RFES but that's not a strategic approach. Rodgers Forge is not where the need is. Why spend all that money to build a new 700 seat school if it only nets 300 new seats. Of course BCPS says: "land acquisition would not work with its goal of solving the problem by 2015" which keeps them boxed into the same spot they were in before WTES. I don't think they will "solve" this by replacing our school and i'll only be voting for the politicians willing to set aside, acquire, or swap for some land they can develop for schools. It turns my stomach every time I have to learn about the need to sell off "excess" County land so we can have more tax base... for another grocery store or apartment building.

11 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - Kamenetz succeeds in k... · 0 replies · +1 points

So this is why KK fought so hard against an elected school board and why we have a developer as the president.

11 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - Rally to save Towson M... · 0 replies · +1 points

Absolutely agree! In his editorial KK sings grandly about how we can all get something for nothing. http://towson.patch.com/blog_posts/have-i-got-som...
I think my dad would say it would be worth exactly what we paid for it. It worries me he identifies big inventory of aging schools, fire and police stations then comes up with this idea. Shouldn't the county have been budgeting for this. We know in greater Towson there isn't space for new schools so shouldn't we be looking to acquire that land? These guys are apparently big pals with development so why not horse trade for some good spots that are in private hands.
Over in Perry Hall Mr. Marks is proud of 38ac of conservation land that makes it perpetually un-buildable. I'm glad he's doing that but shouldn't our valuable county parks have at least that kind of protection?

11 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - Rally to save Towson M... · 0 replies · +1 points

Who pays for a new maintenance building? Who's neighborhood is disrupted by that? Who pays for a new salt dome? Who's neighborhood is disrupted by that? It's not magic. Those facilities were built after they tore down the fire academy. They exist for a reason and when the property is sold they'll land somewhere.

11 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - Rally to save Towson M... · 2 replies · +1 points

The end of an article in Patch lists three alternative sites and when you get into detail there are problems with them all. The gravel lot is on a 1-way next to the main courts, fuel station further down is another narrow place on a congested corner and what do you do with whats there..
http://towson.patch.com/articles/residents-stage-...

Is not just a fire station which is a complicated enough thing to find a place for. There's also a maintenance facility and salt dome that need new homes if the parcel is sold. If they are expendable, why not find new places for those then build the new firehouse on the back of the lot.

If they have to move them all, I could get behind putting another Towson school on that site, maybe try to share fields with Immaculate. Considering all the new housing they keep pumping into that area and heat they get over no good school sites county should be horse-trading to acquire suitable BCPS land.

11 years ago @ The Forge Flyer - Destroy a park and in ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Why not build the fire station at 301 Washington Ave? Oh wait, that old Parks and Rec bldg got auctioned off last year because the county had no use for it. http://towson.patch.com/d/articles/county-auction...

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