[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Enhanced Use Leasing at Ft. Meade (MD)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Odenton Town Center may hinge on BRAC negotiations

By JOSHUA STEWART
Annapolis Capital
March 23, 2008

To receive state money to build the Odenton Town Center, the county may 
be obligated to negotiate a tax deal with a Texas company that wants to 
build a massive office park at Fort George G. Meade.

The negotiations would create payments from the developer that would 
replace the property taxes the county usually would receive. In return, 
the county would be eligible for state funds to support the town center.

At Thursday's Senate Budget and Taxation Committee work session, Lt. 
Governor Anthony Brown pushed for an amendment to a Senate bill that 
would require counties to at least bargain with developers who want to 
build private projects on military installations.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2008/03_23-8/CWC

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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