A controversial bill allowing small-property owners in Anne Arundel to skirt a six-year waiting list to build new houses may have found a needed compromise.

The County Council amended legislation granting exemptions to certain property owners from the school capacity test that prevents new houses from being built near overcrowded schools.

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