Winning One for Now

According to the Capital , the plans to build a horse park on the old Naval Academy Dairy Farm property are officially dead. Which is a very good thing, and something that I have opposed for some time. The property and the infrastructure could not handle the development and the traffic surrounding that kind of park.

The state has indicated that they are still interested in building this park, just not in Anne Arundel County. However...

County Executive John R. Leopold has said he does not want a horse park at the Gambrills farm, but is open to putting the park elsewhere.

Why? Is there an overwhelming need to this structure to be built in Anne Arundel County? Is there any land in the county in which Leopold thinks it would be acceptable to build this development? What benefits would the park actually have for the county? And why should the taxpayers spend one dime to build it, here or elsewhere, particularly in light of our current fiscal situation?