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Article: Ground rent at top of agenda: Key legislators to meet to seek consensus on phasing out system.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- January 5, 2007
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Byline: Fred Schulte and June Arney
Jan. 5--Key state lawmakers plan to meet Wednesday morning, hours before the General Assembly session opens, to try to hammer out consensus on phasing out the state's arcane system of ground rents. "The time has come for us to sunset this ground rent business," Senate president pro tempore Nathaniel J. McFadden said yesterday. Lawmakers from both chambers plan in their morning session to figure out which concepts to draft into bills, said Del. Maggie L. McIntosh, a Baltimore Democrat and chairwoman of the House Environmental Matters Committee. Proposals being discussed include: --Prohibiting ground rent owners from ...