The same group is against any development, especially the Smart Growth designed Towson Triangle- 101 York Rd (in its original, harshly-opposed form, not the dumb second draft with no hope), walkable & mixed-use Towson Row (though the $55k hand out has slowed the rhetoric), Marks’ circulator idea, and the Cinemark complex. “Newcomers?” Well, come on now. We know how the social club feels about change and outsiders.

This whole Gateway project is mess. No surprise. Remember that the original idea of mixed-use residential development was vehemently fought. Maybe Kamenetz is hearing the “too liberal” calls and is reaching out to Trump’s right-wing supporters through environmentally-destructive actions.

We have three options: allow business, raise property taxes to offset the loss in revenue, or encourage the protesters to raise the money to buy the property and do as they see fit.

In the meantime, as so many wax poetic over the cleared brush, and yes, some fine mature trees, let’s see these protest efforts turn to improving existing space so the county doesn’t have the option of blight removal.

The Towson Triangle can certainly use some love. Though, it’s easier just to complain when things are gone.

To cover a bookkeeping issue? The county “currently had to forward finance through the sale of debt,” he said. “That keeps the revenue as a receivable, which does not help.”

Seriously? The county floats tens of millions in bonds all the time. Mr. Homan’s obsession with a Triple A or such bond rating, and the administration’s skewed pro-developer compromises, are putting a stranglehold on logic and common sense.

He also tells Mr. Marks “that the county owns the properties, sir.”

That, Mr. Homan, is a more serious bookkeeping error. The taxpayers and county residents “own” public land. And that is who you really work for.

So let’s take a look at that contract with Caves Valley Partners and call you, and your supervisor Kevin Kamenetz, on the carpet for a bad deal. Would you sell a house to someone but agree to pay to level trees and buildings, do utility and related work, and all demo and debris removal before the deal is even finalized?

Because that rookie error is “what is going on at this particular time.”