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Article: Expansion Worries Board of Education; Officials Want School Site in Turf Valley Plans
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- The Washington Post
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- November 18, 2004
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The expansion of Turf Valley, Howard's only planned golf course
community, has attracted the kind of vehement neighborhood opposition
that's typical for big developments. But in recent weeks, it has also
drawn the concern of the county's school board.
Officials have asked the Howard Planning Board to require that
Mangione Family Enterprises, developer of the residential resort
community west of Ellicott City, reserve 25 acres of its complex for
a school site. The request was presented last week during a crowded
Planning Board hearing. More than 200 people from neighborhoods near
Turf Valley attended the meeting, and most stood to show their
opposition to the expansion.
"We're just trying to ...