Baltimore County, MD My Top Videos, 16 Jun 2008

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From YouTube: Red Run Trail

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County Executive Jim Smith and Councilman Kenneth N. Oliver break ground for the new Red Run Biking and hiking path in Owings Mills. This path will connect the community to nature and to local businesses. It's a long awaited treasure that is putting land to a smart use.

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Up down there, 5 4 3, 2 1.

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And you know, during the drafting of the Owings Mills master plan, it really became apparent that portions of the existing dough filled road and meadows road that all follow along the red run. Valley stream, a stream valley, would not be needed for cars or for vehicular traffic.

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These road segments follow the Redmond stream and are with, within the hundred year flood plain a bike and pedestrian trail network was planned in the early 1990s that incorporated these roads as trails and a system that length the area's residential and employment area to parks and the Owings Mills town center and gave this community open space that it certainly needed to support this trail.

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The county has been acquiring, as Pat said, parcels of land along the red run, string valley, as development has occurred, and today we own more than 250 acres, and we anticipate acquiring another hundred acres over the next few years. Acquiring this land has made today's trail groundbreaking possible. This almost one mile path will be wheelchair, accessible and use the existing old da field. Road road bed I think we're going to pave over it, but we're going to use this area using this road bed as it runs through this beautiful, wonderful wooded area.

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There's a three tenths of a mile segment has already been constructed west of pleasant hill road and once the extension 20 field boulevard is complete. The existing portion of the trio will be connected to the trail. We're breaking ground on today, convert and converting the one-lane bridge between them to exclusive use for pedestrians and cyclists. This red run stream valley trail. Is that I think an outstanding addition to our town center community that will provide appropriate access to Owings Mills, beautiful nach environment.

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We are all are also already moving ahead with a feasibility study exploring other recreational opportunities that could be provided along the trail like little areas where you might picnic or little areas where you might have a little small musical. You know a little little little band where you could sit around have a mini concert. Those kinds of things that could occur along the along the.

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Path on I want to thank Pat Kelly, with his leadership were being the director of planning for Baltimore, County and Jim gave you a childhood shot of him growing up in owings mills. I'm going to quickly give you not my childhood shot, but being on the planning board prior to being elected to this office.

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I've seen the growth of owings mills and because I was in the planning process- and it wasn't 20 years ago, because I was too young to be on the Planning Board then, but I finally became of age and got on on the Planning Board and then got elected to the council and I appreciate each and every one of you for coming out and all of your time that you did you give for volunteering, and this is all about our quality of life here in Baltimore County, and this is just phase one, although it took 20 years.

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We hope that phase to start before then, and thank you for your support.