Baltimore County Can Fix A Problem, Why Can’t We?

Monday’s Baltimore Sun has an interesting article on planning and schools in Baltimore County.  It seems that Baltimore County is building schools that are already overcrowded on the day they open.  Sound familiar?

What are they doing about it?
A.  Nothing (A Wicomico County solution)
B.  Letting developers build until the state comes in and takes over our schools. (another WC option)
C.  Starting to take ALL of the planned development in an area into account.

That’s right folks.  They are choosing option C.  It’s the common sense option, so don’t expect our elected officials to adopt it anytime soon.  You see, for us to do something like that would mean that Wicomico County would get a fairly strong APFO.  It also means that the county would not rezone any land for residential use until the county had time absorb all of the planned development  in Salisbury.

Now we know that’s not going to happen.  For starters, Tony Sarbanes would rather blow his brains out during the Lord’s Prayer at a council meeting before he’s going to allow an APFO.  Since no one else on County Council has the stones, leadership skills or intellectual capacity to go out and get a base APFO formulated (Tony won’t allow the County Attorney to draw one up) and then force the council to debate it and then take an up or down vote, these things are never going to happen here until we get seven fresh faces on the County Council.