Officials, club near agreement

Baltimore County officials are offering to pay $2 million for development rights of a patch on the Country Club of Maryland?s golf course, helping club leaders and its neighbors end more than a year of debate on controversial housing plans at the site.

A revised plan for development on club-owned property calls for 36 new homes instead of the 46 originally proposed, and a bigger buffer zone between construction and existing homes, officials said. Club leaders said they also will agree not to develop about 95 acres of its property for at least 25 years.