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Summary: Hot Deadline THIS Monday April 19 2019. Email your Anne Arundel County Councilmember ASAP.
Hello all,
The draft General Development Plan (GDP) threatens public recreational use of our public parks for public water access by 1) misclassifying our public parks, Program Open Space (POS) and Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) land as Conservation, rather than Open Space and 2) creating a Peninsula Privilege, ie Peninsula Policy Area, that will restrict improvements necessary for public water access. Please email your Councilmember by Monday 4/19/21 in opposition to these provisions and rally others who share our passion for public water access to do the same. Contact into at the end of this email.
The draft GDP essentially tilts the county playing field against public water access in our public parks.
Remember the huge pit dug in the launch path at Homeport Farm Park? Remember the hundreds of pounds of junk repeatedly dropped in the Homeport driveway to block park users in, so we had to move a couch, a water heater, scaffolding and more to get out of the park? Remember the decades of yard waste dumped at the entrance to the water access lane at Beachwood Park, so much that no one could tell the access lane was there? Remember the private lock on the gate at Spriggs Farm Park? Remember the car blocking the road at Spriggs Farm Park, with a sign on it saying our public park was closed to the public because it was for the neighbors? Remember all the fake signs - NO TRESPASSING, NO PARKING, GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, PROTECTED CONSERVATION AREA, KEEP OUT - posted in and around our public parks?
Well, the park obstructionists are now sneakily trying to zone the general public out of the public parks for the next 20 years via the draft General Development Plan (GDP). And they might get away with it if we don't act by THIS Monday, April 19, 2019.
The draft GDP is before the Council. The Council must finalize amendments THIS Monday, April 19, 2021 and is set to vote on the GDP on May 3, 2021.
Level the playing field. Email your County Councilmember and encourage others to do the same by THIS Monday, April 19, 2021.
Tell our Councilmembers to:
1) Classify our public parks, Program Open Space (POS) land and Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) land as Open Space NOT Conservation.
2) Eliminate the Peninsula Privilege, aka Peninsula Policy Area.
Find your Councilmember HERE: https://www.aacounty.org/departments...councilmember/
Thank you,
Lisa
Hello all,
The draft General Development Plan (GDP) threatens public recreational use of our public parks for public water access by 1) misclassifying our public parks, Program Open Space (POS) and Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) land as Conservation, rather than Open Space and 2) creating a Peninsula Privilege, ie Peninsula Policy Area, that will restrict improvements necessary for public water access. Please email your Councilmember by Monday 4/19/21 in opposition to these provisions and rally others who share our passion for public water access to do the same. Contact into at the end of this email.
The draft GDP essentially tilts the county playing field against public water access in our public parks.
Remember the huge pit dug in the launch path at Homeport Farm Park? Remember the hundreds of pounds of junk repeatedly dropped in the Homeport driveway to block park users in, so we had to move a couch, a water heater, scaffolding and more to get out of the park? Remember the decades of yard waste dumped at the entrance to the water access lane at Beachwood Park, so much that no one could tell the access lane was there? Remember the private lock on the gate at Spriggs Farm Park? Remember the car blocking the road at Spriggs Farm Park, with a sign on it saying our public park was closed to the public because it was for the neighbors? Remember all the fake signs - NO TRESPASSING, NO PARKING, GOVERNMENT PROPERTY, PROTECTED CONSERVATION AREA, KEEP OUT - posted in and around our public parks?
Well, the park obstructionists are now sneakily trying to zone the general public out of the public parks for the next 20 years via the draft General Development Plan (GDP). And they might get away with it if we don't act by THIS Monday, April 19, 2019.
The draft GDP is before the Council. The Council must finalize amendments THIS Monday, April 19, 2021 and is set to vote on the GDP on May 3, 2021.
Level the playing field. Email your County Councilmember and encourage others to do the same by THIS Monday, April 19, 2021.
Tell our Councilmembers to:
1) Classify our public parks, Program Open Space (POS) land and Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF) land as Open Space NOT Conservation.
2) Eliminate the Peninsula Privilege, aka Peninsula Policy Area.
Find your Councilmember HERE: https://www.aacounty.org/departments...councilmember/
Thank you,
Lisa
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