With your help and the support of our partners on the City Council, especially Alderman Rob Savidge, we were successful in ensuring passage the No Net Loss (of forest) ordinance in November. We also defeated a resolution this month that sought to reverse that progress by reducing the fee-in-lieu of replanting. Now we need your read on >
Month: January 2019
Baltimore Sun Op-ed: “‘Code red’ for the Chesapeake Bay”
By: Gerald Winegrad, Fred Tutman, Kathy Phillips Recent alarming news about the Chesapeake Bay signals a code red for immediate action. Efforts must be ramped up to greatly reduce agricultural and urban runoff pollution. These are the inconvenient truths compelling such action: The legal-sized Maryland bay oyster population declined by half since 1999. Oysters are read on >
Capital LTE: “Annapolis doesn’t need a project like Providence Point”
My husband and I just attended the large community forum held in a nearby church, to hear about and share expressed concerns for the Providence Point development, which is still planned for the wooded acreage at the corner of Forest Drive and Spa Road, (The Capital, Jan. 4). Since 2013 this project has been massaged read on >
The Capital: “New plan for Providence Point development about to land in Annapolis”
By: Danielle Ohl, Capital Gazette Reporter A new application is about to revive the Villages at Providence Point, a 300-plus-unit retirement community long stalled by community opposition in Annapolis. Nonprofit developer National Lutheran Communities and Services will submit an application following a community meeting held Thursday night to discuss adjustments to the controversial project. More read on >