Workforce housing proposal may be revived

A dead plan to donate county-owned land to a workforce housing project may be quickly resurrected.

The County Council last week killed a proposal to donate surplus land in Glen Burnie to Arundel Community Development Services in order to build six inexpensively priced houses that would be sold to county residents who make below the county's median income.

Councilmen quashed the idea in a split vote, with opponents arguing that in the current tight fiscal times the county should sell the land and use profits to help school children, not to subsidize homeownership for a few residents.

County officials have estimated...