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School Board Asks Officials to 'Strongly Weigh the Impacts' of Proposed Industrial Facility
The Board of Education sent a letter expressing concern about a state project proposed near the county's future middle school site.
On Nov. 3, that the Howard County Board of Education was writing a letter about its and sending it to transportation officials.
On Nov. 14, Patch obtained a copy of the letter, which the board sent to the Maryland Department of Transportation last week.
The school board recently designated site to serve the northeast.
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Less than two miles away is land on Hanover and Race Roads that for an intermodal facility, a place for trains and trucks to exchange cargo.
"On behalf of my colleagues on the Board of Education, I request that you strongly weigh the impacts of developing the Hanover candidate site..." wrote Janet Siddiqui, M.D., chair of the Howard County Board of Education, in the Nov. 10 letter.
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Currently, four sites being considered for the train project are undergoing a . The intermodal site will be selected by summer 2012. The middle school is slated to open by 2014.
Read the letter in its entirety above.
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