This is coming to Brickyard Road
"I will continue to work hard and to always put the public interest above politics… to give every County resident a seat at the table and a voice in the decisions that shape their lives... to make government accountable, responsible, ethical and transparent."
County Executive Ike Leggett
When County Executive Ike Leggett said this at his December 6, 2010 Inauguration, he had already been secretly planning for almost a year to deliver the public land on Brickyard Road to a private corporation at virtually no cost as a favored political lobbyist had been hired to make happen. The County Executive secretly planned to do this for almost two years for only one purpose: to make sure that no one who lived in the community knew about what he was doing and could have no input. In short, the County Executive broke the promises in his inaugural address: there was no seat at the table for any of the community residents impacted by his decision, they had no voice in his decisions that will dramatically shape their lives, and he and his government have not been “accountable, responsible, ethical or transparent.”
Why?
- To fight for upholding the Master Plan, because if it's circumvented here, it can be circumvented everywhere
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To promote transparency in the Montgomery County government
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To preserve the 31 year-old uniquely-positioned organic farm - Nick's Organic Farm
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To prevent large increases in traffic, noise pollution, light pollution, trash, parking, etc. from disrupting the neighboring residential community
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To maintain the water management done by the farm to prevent flooding
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To protect the Chesapeake Bay from unfiltered runoff
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Because Potomac has little need for more soccer fields
For more about the history of Nick's Organic Farm, go here.
