Our say: Editor's notebook

ANNAPOLIS ROADS -- Good for the residents of the Annapolis Roads neighborhood. They've demonstrated that, yes, a community can stave off a development plan that would change it forever.

Of course, the staving off didn't come cheap. The 320-home community passed the hat for $2.75 million to buy 33 acres integral to the developers' plans. Not every neighborhood will be able to do something like that.

Recently St. Mary's Church in Annapolis scrapped its plans to put a gymnasium and ballfields on the current site of the Annapolis Golf Club. The church's part of the deal was no longer feasible after the community's action snatched...