For years, there’s been just enough support on the Prince George’s County Council for a rezoning of Bowie’s Freeway Airport. The owners of the Maryland airport hope to sell the land to developers, who want to build hundreds of new townhomes on the site.
Neighboring residents spent just as long fighting the plan, arguing Church Road would not be able to handle the increased traffic volume such a development would bring. Earlier this year, they won a legal battle over how the council rezoned the land — which in the least, put the project on pause.
But in recent months, there’s been a new effort to change the zoning for the airport again, and following the decision from Maryland’s Court of Special Appeals, that process is getting “expedited.”
It’s left residents fuming all summer long, and at Tuesday’s County Council hearing, it’s clear some members are just as angry about what’s going on.
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