BGE Town Hall Meeting Monday November 28, 2011

Senator Jim Brochin is hosting a Town Hall Meeting in regards to BGE and specifically its’ handling of the Hurricane Irene situation on Monday, November 28, 2011 from 7-9pm at Towson High School.

As many of you know, my family was without power for an entire week. Each day, I would head into my office, and more & more people would have power back…but not us.

Much of Towson was left without power after the storm — many for a week or more.

Schools had delayed openings because of the lack of power — most of them through the first week due to lack of power!

Though BGE had a lot on their hands, many question if things could have been handled better, and power restored to many earlier than it was. Why were they not as prepared as they should have been? What can be done to prevent this type of long term outage in the future?

Senator Jim Brochin is the Maryland State Senator for Legislative District 42, which encompasses much of Towson. He lives in Towson and was affected by the outage. Here is a link to the flyer he sent to his constituents, inviting them to the Towson BGE town hall meeting.

If you are interested in hearing from BGE and sharing your thoughts, make sure to attend on Monday.

Towson High School is located at 69 Cedar Ave, Towson, MD 21286.

Rodgers Forge House Values could be hurt by Towson University’s New Stadium Proposal

Towson University and its’ neighbors have always had a love-hate relationship when it comes to expansions. I remember when I lived in the Forge (as many of us affectionately call Rodgers Forge) on Stanmore Road, and our neighbors across the street had extra long yards — needed because they back to the athletic fields of the University!

Well, now, the University is planning to expand the Towson Center near Osler Drive by 5,000 seats, the Baltimore Sun reports.

In steps Senator Jim Brochin, a self proclaimed Conservative Democrat , to help the surrounding neighbors. “The community respects the school’s right to build an arena, but not on a boundary line without a reasonable buffer,” Brochin said.

Let’s hope he and the three other delegates who sent a letter about their concerns to the University can help these neighbors. “These neighbors are saying work with us, be fair and don’t build a 60-foot wall 30 feet from our boundary,” he continued.

Can you imagine a 60 foot wall in your backyard where now you have practice fields? I don’t know about you, but I think that *just might* hurt their property values….which, as we all know, are ALREADY suffering! (One year average house value change in Towson? Zillow reports DOWN 5.5% ), which though better than MOST of the country, still hurts!

So, as a Towson resident, and Towson Real Estate Agent, I will certainly be following this closely, and hoping, for my neighbors’ sakes, that this does not hurt their house values anymore than the economy already has!