On May 4 in Montgomery County,Maryland,the County Council voted 9-0 to approve a master plan that supports the Johns Hopkins University science city project.Centered around farmland that Hopkins acquired below cost,the site is located off Shady Grove Road,west of I-270 in Gaithersburg,Maryland.It is hoped that about 52,000 jobs will be created by the development.
The university said the master plan demonstrates the best in smart-growth planning and provides the potential for high-paying bioscience and health care jobs,new mass transit,high-quality affordable housing,parks and other important amenities that will benefit the entire county.
Some residents and environmental groups continue to oppose the project even though it was scaled back in size and narrowed in scope.A nephew of the former landowner is also dissatisfied,saying the plan violates Hopkins' agreement with his aunt,who envisioned a smaller,"Jeffersonian" campus on the site.Tim Newell says he is moving toward filing a lawsuit against the university.Facing such opposition is a common ritual for developers of tracts of any size in the Mid-Atlantic region.
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