From the Stop Abingdon Business Park Coalition:
On Monday September 16, the Stop Abingdon Business Park Coalition will hold a rally opposing the Abingdon Business Park (ABP) project in front of the Harford County Council Building, 220 Main Street, Bel Air, Maryland from 4:00 PM to 5:00 PM.
The Stop Abingdon Business Park Coalition includes of Autumn Run residents, Cokesbury Manor residents, members of Friends of Harford, the Gunpowder River Keeper, Harford County Climate Action, Medley Estates residents, Philadelphia Station, Pomeroy Manor residents, Together We Will Upper Chesapeake and more.
The Abingdon Business Park is a proposed plan to convert a 326-acre parcel of forest and non-tidal wetlands just north of the Anita Leight Estuary Center, Otter Point Creek, and Bush River into a complex of warehouses. Harford County already has a large number of vacant warehouses available for lease in Aberdeen, Abingdon, Belcamp, Edgewood, and Joppa. There are no prospective tenants to utilize the new warehouses at the proposed business park.
The residents do not want this project as it will bring increased traffic, noise, and flooding, pollution of the Chesapeake Bay, and decreased property values to homeowners. The coalition of residents also agrees that slowing climate change has to be a priority, and cutting down a mature forest is not the correct policy direction at this critical juncture.
Keep Harford County Rural!!!! We have enough warehouses in the area and enough of the land in Harford County has been torn down to accommodate these empty buildings. I live in Belcamp and I have seen more deer in the tiny bit of woods that we have trying to survive.
It was bad enough when all the woods were torn down for the Bel Air Auto Auction and the most recent area the county has allowed builders to destroy is on Old Philadelphia Road across from Walmart. Enough is Enough
I agree, we need to save the tree’s!!!
Local governments will sell a town’s soul for a quick buck
You don’t care about no trees.. let progress, progress!!!
Why does everyone keep trying to stop it??
ENOUGH WITH THE WAREHOUSES…ENOUGH WITH TAKING AWAY ALL THE WOODED AREAS..We don’t need more warehouses and we certainly don’t need more apartments, townhouses, etc. We need to leave the wooded areas alone so our wildlife will have places to live instead of being pushed into the neighborhoods and on our highways..use all the money that will be put into those warehouses for our schools and our children’s and grandchildren’s education..the future of our county.
I would like to announce Linda will be putting in an offer to buy the entire 326 acres and will be donating it to Harford county. Everyone thank Linda for her generosity.
Is this comment the truth?
Put up or Shut Up- My My you’re a real smarty pants, now aren’t you? Besides being the dumbest comment I’ve heard yet, you have only forced me to draw one conclusion regarding this entire soon to be screwed up catastrophe. YOUR greedy, azz must surely be getting your pockets lined somehow by this huh? No normal human being in their right mind, that has lived in Harford County for some time- would even think twice about this being a horrible thing. Soooo, how are you getting your share from all this? How about we put it by YOUR house? And tear down all the trees. Oh wait , you don’t care about trees, or wildlife, or the traffic or the water., how silly of me. You are a true piece of work… such good values – I bet your mama is real proud.
Lets build it right on Federal Lane in Abingdon. The residents there are a bunch of cranky racists old people who should be dying off real soon…..
Interesting I read week after week liberals race baiting and talking about the horrible threat posed by white nationalist and white supremacists. The Baltimore homicide rate is almost up to one third of a percent of the city’s population. Chicago has close to almost a thousand homicides a year. In all most all cases the victims and the assailants are black. The incidents have nothing to do with white nationalism but do you see liberals coming up with solutions ? People are dying and liberals and Democrats don’t seem to want to address the issues because it paints a bad image of their membership. Maybe Bill Maher and other liberals should stop trying to be cute and address these type issues. People are dying but liberals don’t care because they can’t blame President Trump.
TPC says,The real Just for says. These comments are most likely the work of Donald C. Rhoades. A previous resident of Philadelphia Station who was run out on his ass. The man is a liar, a bully, a racists, a homophobe and quite literally the dumbest man I have ever encountered. The folks of Philadelphia Station say GOOD Riddance to a real POS!
Did anyone watch the news yesterday? There was a segment on some anti-President Trump demonstrators in the city. One of the demonstrators was dressed up in a costume resembling Templeton the rat from the Charlottes Web movie. I wondered for a moment if that was actually Mike Callahan in disguise. I quickly dismissed that theory because attending a demonstration in Baltimore City would involve leaving the safety of his home and computer. He might miss an episode of the Bill Maher show.
I am a gay older Man…..born and raised in Dundalk now live in Abingdon. I have the intelligence to match the fine Dundalk upbringing. We have street parties where we poke each other in the ass. Ye ha kippie ah yah. We keep our street clean with only White folk and make sure to harass others because were too ignorant to know any better. Yep that’s our life.
One of us is a soon to be Convicted Felon who decided to steal from our own Mama. That’s the kinda of people we have here on Federal Lane. Yup……all that ass poking should come in handy while in State Prison.
One of them will be entering State Prison soon as a Felon.. that will open space up for warehouses.
I agree these people are greedy and yes lining pockets is all they think about they don’t care about there own children or grandchildren.They are all in cahoots.
NIMBY Nut! Have you every heard of property rights?
Guess what, where every anti-development person lives, there used to be trees.
If you love trees so much, demolish your house and driveway, plant trees and live off of the land (you know, hunting deer, eating nuts and berries, etc.). 🙂
Of course none of this is true. I guess the word “meadow” is foreign to you. I have a right as does every other citizen to want to protect the environment where they live. You are an idiot.
This is the same flip, tired answer you always regurgitate when somebody wants to protect the environment. Absolute rights to do whatever you want with your property have never existed. The citizens who live in the area have a greater stake in what happens here than a developer from Towson or Miami, FL. Now that we recognize the real impacts of global warming – the impact of which effects all of us those trees over there whether they’re on your land have a value to you, otherwise the idea that the entirety of the amazon rainforest should be allowed to burn…are you stupid enough to suggest that? Maybe you are.
Linda,
Don’t donate it Harford County !!!! They will just develop it. Instead, establish a 501 c non-profit corporation to protect this land. You can then solicit donations for the perpetual care of this property (taxes, maintenance, etc.). This way, you can be sure this property will never be developed.
Couldn’t. agree more! Harford County does most things right. But, when they get it wrong, THEY REALLY GET IT WRONG !!! No more warehouses PLEASE! !!
You are so on target!
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Interesting
Here kitty kitty…. distinct off a keyboard pussy in our midst.
We know this one he has quite the history in HCSO. Needless to say he isn’t well liked in Law Enforcement circles because of dishonest behavior. Looks like it is catching up with him. He is a real dirt bag.
If they have no tenants, where is the traffic and noise going to come from?
The big huge trucks!! What do you mean, where’s the noise coming from lol trucks , forklifts, beep beep beep , workers, traffic !! Now back there because there will be road crossing over to Abingdon! and they are building more stuff BESIDES warehouses! Read about it. It’s not just the noise, you have no clue about how awful it would be to destroy all those woods. You probably haven’t lived here to long?? There are so many beautiful animals that these woods house. A stream, goes all through and behind the school/ all of that is part of our Abingdon! And big wigs wanna just cash in and kill everything!! Sickening
Abingdon was never a nice place to live….Sorry but its true. It has attracted some of worst from Baltimore City area like Dundalk.
You haven’t lived here very long then. Before 95 went in Abingdon was more rural than Fallston ever has been
KKK you must mean Abingdon VA or you are really the despicable Donald Rhodes, the most slimy POS to walk the earth!
Real Truth…..Unsure about your reference. Perhaps your seeing ghosts? Touched a sore spot? Maybe born and raised in Dundalk? Maybe your like the Jefferson’s and moved on up, or thought you did and now live in Abingdon. Its ok the truth will set you free.
Besides the low IQs the only thing missing in Abingdon is banjo picking Joe sitting in his rocker on the front porch. Abingdon has all the other qualities a good ignorant racist looks for. Breeding ground for your next group of White welfare recipients.
Bless Your Heart……
The Real truth! did that make you feel better about yourself? I sure hope it did. The only POS is you……
Abingdon has turned into a shithole since all the Baltimore City migrants came up from places like Essex and Dundalk. KKK is spot on!
Ahhh so when they say there are too many empty warehouses already and we don’t need more they are lying…. Thanks.
So they cut downallthe Trees, and no tentants, just empty warehouses, what a waste! Let set up Climate Change, Save the Trees, rivers and streams! And keep HRcord County Green! Well we are at it; let’s ask for the Resignation of the six members who voted behind closed doors for this Project as it stinker of Greed and Corruption the way it was done!
Pray on it, don’t know that you can trust the County anymore!
We fought the warehouses in Perryman They are building 3 not a 1/4 mile from our very small 11 house community Harford county let them put these warehouses in right next to Well heads that provide 1/3 of Harford and Cecil counties clean water The traffic on these small back roads is loud and nobody sees the stop
Signs or at least they don’t stop When they started this project , this was a
Cornfield and a lot of wildlife lived there Now they have no place to go I would hope Harford county stops this They say this is creating jobs and the three they have built by our houses aren’t even half filled, That being said the noise pollution and traffic are
Ridiculous Good luck in your fight I hope your communities fair better than we
Did
So what you are saying is before they built your house and 10 others right next to wells that provide water to 1/3 of the county your property was cornfields full of wildlife…. I’m having some issues with your reasoning…..
SCREW THE WAREHOUSES SAVE THE TREES!!!
Build them warehouses and they will come..
If one can’t make it to the rally, is there another way to contribute to stop the business park from happening?
Sure, you can buy it. Maybe declare it a sanctuary forest and have an anti-capitalist drum circle.
What a sad human you are to believe that money trumps everything.
And TRUMP fucks up everything.
Yeah… just let everyone else do the work
traffic is out of control. all hours of the day and night. too much traffic
Move… stop protesting all the infrastructure improvements
I moved away from Howard County because they destroyed it with all the over building. Traffic jams everywhere, no room for wildlife, schools going to hell, more crime. I came to Harford County to get away from all that.
You gotta love Howard County. The County that allows Judges like Tim McCrone to use cocaine while he is putting people behind bars for the same offense. Just another example of the traitors of the Maryland Judicial Department not enforcing the rules on the government employees that the rules were meant to govern and fraudulently enforcing those same rules on the public who are not beholden to those rules. Howard County is a beacon for treason and the only county that commits more treason is the one you’re in right now. Congratulations, you screwed up and moved to a worse place than you came from….
I agree…..In Harford the judges can have multiple DWIs and continue to sit on the bench. Backroom deals where the judges, defense attorneys, and SAO are constantly cut and typically screw the defendant. The truth is not relevant. Hearsay is King in Harford County court rooms. A system heavily stacked against the defendant. Harford County the poophole of Northern Maryland. Backwater poophole.
New blood in judges and SAO have had no impact on making things right in Harford County. The new staff get sucked into the machine and corrupted like the ones they replaced. Its a hopeless situation indeed.
Harford Co needs to fix the roads … the roads are not big enough to handle the amount of traffic.., can’t you all see it’s driving everyone insane. There is no need to sit in traffic back ups where normally friendly folk are forced to become irrational erratic crazed drivers… it’s the ROAD
White people lol
Just be honest site. Y’all just don’t like the music bumpin loud, fuckin racist.
No, you’re wrong and are a race baiting tool of treason. The ordinances against noise pollution have been in effect for years and were not initiated because of a person’s race. They were initiated because of the public disturbance the loud noise created. Just for the record, the regulations involving loud music were instated back when the “hippies” were playing their music too loud and neighbors were complaining. Once you realize this and the fact that most “hippies” were of a white majority, the issue of race becomes extinct and so does your argument.
You are right
All this talk about racism when the real issue is the destruction of the vital wetlands adjacent to the bay.
It is common knowledge that Glassman, et al, is in the pocket of any developer with enough cash to buy his favors. Some has to step forward to stop these thieves.
Therefore, if I can accumulate enough signatures to get on the ballot as an independent candidate for County Executive in in 2022, I will be running for the office of County Executive on the platform of enough is enough. Harford county needs some breathing room to take a look around and assess what’s happened and how we, as a county, are going to correct the mistakes of the current administration.
If anyone was concerned about the bay there would not be so much fertilizer for green lawns and something would be done to stop all the raw sewage from that precious bay…
According to the below March 2019 article from the Baltimore Sun the proposed Abingdon Business Park is expected to general 1000 permanent local jobs. Is this estimate of jobs credible?
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/ph-ag-dac-abingdon-business-park-0308-story.htm
Mackey,
You are right about fertilizer runoff affecting the Bay. That why it is necessary to keep the lands adjacent to the Bay in their natural state. These adjacent lands filter the runoff. Therefore, if they are diminished, there will be even more nitrogen and phosphorus finding its way into the Bay.
Once these natural habitats are destroyed, they can not be repaired. The damage to the Bay is irreversible. Not only is additional pollutants entering the bay, there is the additional pollution introduced by new development. More pavement means less open ground to absorb rain and snow runoff meaning even more runoff enters the bay.
This reminds me of the argument – “paper or plastic”. Plastic won because the initial cost of producing a plastic bag is less than the cost of producing a paper bag.
However, the true costs were never calculated.
First, a plastic bag is made from oil which is not a renewable resource. The world’s supply of oil is diminishing at an alarming rate and once it’s gone, its gone. And let’s not forget the every increasing costs to the environment of extracting these every more elusive deposits. Second, after its initial use, the bag is trash and headed for the landfill. Since it’s not biodegradable, these bags wind up as permanent residents of these landfill rendering the land unusable for habitation. Or they are dumped into the oceans where they are killing the aquatic flora and fauna.
A paper bag is made from a renewable resource and is biodegradable. Of course, it too winds up in a landfill, but because it is organic, it is eventually decomposes and does not poison the land.
The point I’m trying to make is, if every square foot of the proposed warehouse space was rented continuously, it might add several (I sincerely doubt the 1000) new jobs. However, there is existing warehouse space that stays vacant. Therefore this new space will also have a high vacancy rate. The questions is, “Is the dubious benefit of this development to this county worth the damage its going to cause the Bay and the surrounding ecosystem?”
Well said!
Huh? Zzzzzzz…oh sorry I fell asleep half way thru the novel.
It’s possible to design, build and maintain a Business Park that would not cause irreparable, irreversible damage to the environment. It doesn’t have to be an ‘either/or’ situation – economic versus environmental. The county needs to strike a balance between the two.
As far as the number of jobs created, I agree with you, probably not 1000, but I suspect it could very well be in the hundreds. If so, this would be a real economic plus for our county.
Located the actual planning document so people that haven’t seen it before can see what it is :
http://www.harfordcountymd.gov/DocumentCenter/View/12851/Abingdon-Business-Park-3-6-19
I’ve got an idea. Why don’t you sue for an injunction to halt the sale of the proposed property and put in on the ballot for next year’s election on whether or not the people approve of such a measure. As many have stated, the County government has acted in a manner that is NOT in the best interests of the people and only in the interests of the developers and County employees who stand to gain from such actions. Harford County must answer to the people it subjects and if it doesn’t you need to vote the stinking traitors out of office. A public vote seems to be very reasonable to me in regards to public land sales and if you can’t wait until the next election you can have a special election for the purposes of this land sale. The County needs to recognize that public land is in fact public property and is not the property of an Administrator or an Administration. The PEOPLE should determine the fate of the proposed development…..
An injunction would go thru Harford County courts? No conflict there. ROTFL.
Agreed. The Harford County Circuit Court would continue to break the law as they routinely do and we all know that every Judge of the HCCC is a complete and utter traitor that deserves to be executed under Article 3 Section 3 provisions of treason. Angela Eaves is a disease and Melba “toast” Bowen is a fat greasy pig. Both of these treasonous scum should be impaled by their vagina with a rusty railroad spike and then beheaded for the treason they represent.
“Letter: Commercial Industrial zoning for Abingdon Woods is out of place and outdated”
https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/harford/aegis/opinion/cng-ag-letter-hardy-20200203-ukejdlmdtbdlvc6opbd6jsmoui-story.html