The Sykesville Planning and Zoning Commission will have a second look tonight at an issue members thought had been decided 18 months ago.
Proposals to give motorists better access to Route 32 will be reintroduced at 7 p.m. during the monthly meeting at the Town House.
The commission will again review two options: looping Obrecht Road around the Fairhaven retirement community or extending Third Avenue to the highway, which the state calls the Sykesville bypass.
"We are just introducing the proposal again," said Town Manager James L. Schumacher.
Last year, the commission recommended the loop around the retirement community and the council accepted it. Fairhaven, which has about 450 employees who daily use the four town intersections with Route 32, recently reopened the issue.
Fairhaven is offering the town the opportunity to annex 12 industrially zoned acres near Millard Cooper Park, if Sykesville will rethink its position and extend Third Avenue instead. Fairhaven officials have said the extension is the more practical and quicker solution.
Many town officials say they would like to see both roads built. Sykesville would have to pay for the Third Avenue extension, because most of the road is within its limits. The county would fund the loop option, which it has scheduled for bids in early 1996.
Mr. Schumacher is planning a public hearing on the proposals with officials early next month.