The Red Maple Place affordable housing project, which has survived neighborhood opposition, a hostile Baltimore County Council, and judicial review, is again at risk of being torpedoed by the county, according to the developer.
Thebattle over the development goes back years. Residents in East Towson, who trace their history back to people who had been enslaved at the nearby Hampton mansion, say the 56-unit apartment building will forever change their community.
Democratic Councilman Mike Ertel, who represents East Towson, said for decades the county has done damage to the neighborhood.
“We put a BGE substation in the middle of this community,” Ertel said. “We’ve tried to run highways through it. We’ve done all kinds of things to East Towson and it just, it’s just got to stop somewhere.”
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