The vote on Current Council Bill 24 is going to be very telling. It has two main issues. One is enforcing an already existing financial disclosure requirement in the process where developers ask to change the rules. In Zoning Regulation Amendment (ZRA) requests, CB24 will obtain petitioners' business relationship information, and update contribution information as the process moves forward and gets to the Council’s agenda. The other issue in CB24 is limiting the time a ZRA r

I have been working on community issues in Howard County for over a decade now. Every year, there are the same arguments made by the development industry, its supporters and benefactors, to ease regulations, lower fees and generally try to influence the Council and County Executive to make it easier and faster to build as much new residential housing as possible. There are many important issues to discuss, like what growth is smart and needed, and what is not. Today, I am goi