Politics & Government
Report: Belward Farm Successor Opposes Transit Plan
John Timothy Newell, a plaintiff in the case against Johns Hopkins University about whether it can develop a "Science City" on his family's farm, spoke out against the Montgomery County Transit Task Force's recent transit network proposal.
John Timothy Newell, of Lebanon, NJ, wrote in a letter to the editor to The Gazette Wednesday that he and his family, successors to the Belward Farm estate, oppose the county's proposal to build a transit network through the property.
The Montgomery County Transit Task Force released a report last week outlining and according to a graphic posted in The Washington Post, the BRT network could cut through the farm.
"If the lawsuit my family is involved with succeeds, then there’s one place the bus route will not be built: Through Belward Farm, near Rockville," he wrote.
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Newel, a plaintiff in the case against Johns Hopkins University, said his aunt Elizabeth Beall Banks did not bestow the property to the university for it to be used commercially.
the planned multi-million dollar "Science City" in 2010 is a form of profiteering.
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The case regarding Belward Farm and what Johns Hopkins University can do with it with a scheduling hearing before Judge Ronald B. Rubin.
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