Planning board to consider creamery debate

Baltimore County’s planning board is considering legislation that would allow creameries on land zoned for conservation, a proposal that could make the current web of appellate hearings and court cases over one Glen Arm dairy farmer’s plans moot.

Both sides of a battle between a dairy farmer struggling to keep his farm alive and neighbors who say he is spoiling the Long Green Valley landscape are expected to pack a hearing before the county’s planning board today. At issue is a proposal to allow creameries — such as the one Bobby Prigel has built to sell organic milk, yogurt, cheese and ice cream — on land designated for “resource conservation.”