Del. Wendell R. Beitzel, a Republican representing Garrett and Allegany counties, was granted a $427,000 conservation easement Wednesday by the Board of Public Works.
The easement, part of the Rural Legacy Program, will keep Beitzel’s farm in Garrett County from being developed, a danger that Comptroller Peter Franchot wasn’t sure was real or imagined.
Franchot voted in favor of the measure, but said it “stuck out like a sore thumb.”
“We’re paying $450,000 for a property in Western Maryland to protect it from development,” the comptroller said during Wednesday’s BPW meeting. “What development is going out there that I’m unaware of?”
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2 comments:
Kind of funny, my family attempted to have our farm put into this program and we were told that the maximum ever paid was $4000/acre, when real estate was in the sellers market. It is in an area that is ripe for future development. Now in a buyer's market he gets $5000/acre for land that would never be developed in the first place.
That's the politics baby,and the comptroller voted for it and didn't even know what he was voting for.As long as it involves spending our money they are all for it, regardless. I guess the idea is to spend it and then find out what you've bought. Sounds like we elected bozo to control our money.
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