Bowie City Staff to Draft Amendment to Melford Covenants
The amendment, which could clear the way for thousands of new homes, will be discussed at a public hearing March 4.
Thousands of homes as well as retail and service stores may be built on the large Melford property in Bowie after the city council voted to allow its staff to draft an amendement to covenants that currently restrict how that land can be developed. The amendment allowing for new types of development will be discussed at a public hearing on March 4. The city council move comes after St. John Properties, the developer of the office campus already at the Melford tract, said it was having trouble leasing commercial space due to a lack of nearby amenities. “We need to provide amenities to the (office) park,” said Andrew Roud, development director with St. John Properties who urged council to expand the uses of the land. However, the city …
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Ed Leyden
5:03 pm on Friday, January 11, 2013
As a City resident of twenty-years tenure with a demonstrated long-term interest in matters of Economic Development here in Bowie and intimate familiarity with the evolution of the City's posture concerning the Melford center, I can, hopefully, add some clarity to these discussions by pointing out (strictly in my capacity as a private citizen and NOT as Chair Emeritus of the City's Economic … more ›