Community Corner
Elkridge Today: September 21
Where do you think the lines around Elkridge should be drawn? Tell the Redistricting Commission tonight.
Today's high in Elkridge is 75 degrees, with a low of 67, according to the National Weather Service. Showers are likely.
The Howard County Redistricting Commission is holding its final public hearing at 7:30 p.m. at the George Howard Building. The commission, tasked with redrawing council districts following the release of census data, presented , one which would have a significant impact on Elkridge ().
On this day in 1997, the Baltimore Sun ran an editorial about the debate over “porn zoning” that arose when Ellicott City residents wanted adult store the Pack Shack out of their neighborhood and legislators to move such establishments to the Route 1 corridor. A new zoning law requiring the stores to have a percentage of nonsexual merchandise was enacted in 1997, according to a later article in the Sun, which stated that as of 2010, residents were dissatisfied with adult businesses on Route 1 and Route 40.
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