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A large crowd has gathered at the Harford County Council building in Bel Air to attend Wednesday morning's site plan review for the controversial proposed Bel Air Plumtree Walmart.

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The public will have the chance to see site plans for the proposed new Walmart in Bel Air South and ask questions about the project during the county's Development Advisory Committee meeting at 9 a.m. today (Wednesday).

I rise in support of Plumtree Walmart. It is a must for the economy in Harford County and specifically Town of Bel Air.

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Forty years ago today, on the site of a former racetrack, Harford Mall opened its doors to thousands of shoppers with 1970s mainstays like Montgomery Ward and Korvettes.

The Abingdon Community Council laid out requests to Walmart for the proposed Bel Air location on Plumtree Road during a recent meeting between the council, retail giant and Harford County Government officials.

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A most welcome step in the right direction, the move protects not only the interests of the residential community in the immediate neighborhood of the proposed Walmart store, but as part of the larger effort to deny Walmart permission to open a new store in Bel Air, it also supports responsible business practice in the County.

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The recent plan of the Abingdon Walmart to close and move to Bel Air as a 24 hour Super Walmart has sparked a very loud debate among community residents and Harford County Government officials.

The other night, I was listening to Harford County Councilwoman Mary Ann Lisanti describe the notorious site of a proposed Walmart (the Route 924 and Plumtree Road area) as a "traffic nightmare" and watching Councilman Jim McMahan point at a video of traffic steadily piling up, light after light, at the 924 intersection with the Festival shopping center.

The Harford County Council passed a resolution Tuesday asking the State Highway Administration to deny road access to Route 924 for a controversial new Walmart planned for Bel Air because "of the unsafe conditions it would create for the surrounding communities."

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Site plans for the controversial Bel Air Walmart are on the Oct. 17 agenda for the county's Development Advisory Committee meeting.

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Once the zoning classifications are established for a parcel, and the property owner makes an arrangement that's in keeping with those zoning laws, it begins to upset the balance of rights if the government then injects itself into the process to change the law.

Now that the Traffic Studies and site plan for the Wal Mart Super Store have been submitted, here is what I would expect that my elected representatives will do: Review it with the appropriate County office, e.g., Planning and Zoning; Determine if 10,000 more cars a day will have an impact on our ALREADY overcrowded traffic infrastructure; Take ALL of the appropriate steps necessary to mitigate our danger and loss of quality of life.

At least two members of the Harford County Council, one who made public his plan and the other who is keeping his private, say they are working to stop the controversial Walmart proposed for between Routes 924 and 24 in the Plumtree Road area south of Bel Air.

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Walmart was again the hot topic at Tuesday's Harford County Council meeting, with about 30 residents coming out to make their opposition to the project at Plumtree Road and Route 924 clear to the council members, who had a light agenda that night.

There's nothing wrong with Walmart or other stores in Eldersburg, mind you — they're fine, she says. But Target, she says, "takes it up a notch" when it comes to household goods, clothing and "natural" products.

Walmart has blatantly ignored us; it is time for us to ignore Walmart.

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There isn't much hope for Harford County residents who want to put an end to the proposed Walmart relocation in Abingdon.

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Approving a Walmart Super Center at Route 924 and Plumtree Road would be an example of the poorest planning imaginable.

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if Walmart wants to build a new store and close an old one, it should be allowed to do so because that's what the law says is allowed on the Plumtree area land.

One of the reasons that has been put forth is a restriction on the land they own at Abingdon does not allow them to sell groceries.