?Circus tent? dispute heats up

Neighbors to Baltimore Lutheran School and the controversial “circus tent” will get to have their turn to interrogate Baltimore County officials about why they approved the structure they consider an eyesore and public nuisance.

Residents along Towson?s Concordia Drive hope a meeting with the county?s zoning commissioner will end an increasingly tense feud with officials from the adjacent private school over a five-story canopy converted to indoor athletic fields. Community leaders said the county should never have permitted the tent and should have required the school to seek special permission to rent its fields to outside organizations ? a practice they say clogs streets with illegally parked cars.