Annapolis Roads Group Blankets Community with Signs
Preserve Annapolis Roads supporters line community roads around Annapolis Golf Club with signs protesting the sale of the course to The Key School.
Just before Thanksgiving, several Annapolis Roads residents filed a lawsuit against the owners of the Annapolis Golf Club, The Key School and the potential developers of the 70-plus-acre golf course.
Over the past several weeks, members and supporters of Preserve Annapolis Roads—the group that quickly sprang up in response to news on Greater Annapolis Patch that The Key School had finalized a deal to buy the course—have lined the community's roads with signs pledging their support.
"Our Covenants. Our Community."
The signs also includes website information for the group, www.PreserveAR.org, which contains all sorts of information concerning community covenants, the lawsuit and the pending Key School deal.
A Patch Poll asking about what should be done with the golf course has fluctuated over the past several weeks, but now—with 175 votes—shows 58 percent of respondents are in favor of keeping the course as it is. Also, 38 percent of respondents said Key School sports fields would be an appropriate use.
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Annapolis Golf Club
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The Key School
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RGM
3:46 pm on Monday, December 5, 2011
Key School needs to purchase some waterfront property, start a yacht club, and get the kids parents to donate their used and outdated yachts to populate the slips. they can even build and staff a clubhouse. This would totally prepare them for the world as they will know it.
Leave the Golf Course alone!
Wes Jones
12:51 pm on Tuesday, December 6, 2011
The Key School has said publicly that they intend to honor the restrictive covenants on the property. With so many of America's youth endangered by childhood obesity and with our environmental and educational efforts struggling for traction, use of this property for the recreation and conservations uses proposed by Key are not only appropriate, but highly desirable for the Annapolis Neck.
Jim Gibb
9:12 pm on Thursday, December 8, 2011
By extending its campus into the Annapolis Roads community, the Key School will have broken the covenants on the golf course. And somebody, we don't know who, likely will seek annexation of the 30 acres Key School will sell back to the current owners and build high density housing. Years of legal wrangling, divisiveness, and huge legal expenses will have been for naught. And the families that purchased properties along the golf course portion of Carrollton Road will find that their property values will drop precipitously when their new neighbors are athletic fields and townhouses.