Perry Hall community leaders filed a public information request demanding Baltimore County officials release details on where they might construct a school bus parking lot.
Fearing the noise, fumes and an eyesore, residents ? who successfully thwarted the county?s plans to build a bus depot with a new library ? want to keep depots out of residential areas.
“There is a concern about where it?s going to be, and there hasn?t been a lot of public input,” said Kent Smith, chairman of Perry Hall Improvement Association?s education committee.
Perry Hall is one of four communities battling proposed bus depots.
Council Member Bryan McIntire, R-District 3, recently threatened to vote against the county?s purchase of a 26-acre parcel off scenic Raphel Road in Kingsville if plans include a bus depot.
McIntire said he may work to delay a vote scheduled for Tuesday, or lobby for language in the purchase agreement that would prohibit a depot.
Jacksonville residents persuaded county officials to abandon plans for a 40-bus depot and two above-ground fuel tanks off Paper Mill Road.
Still reeling from a 25,000-gallon gasoline leak at a gas station earlier this year, they said the depot will complicate the cleanup and exacerbate traffic.
Activists in Lansdowne?s Oak Park also are battling a depot planned near Interstate 695?s Washington Boulevard exit.
County officials said they plan to pursue depots elsewhere to curb excessive “dead miles,” when buses drive without students on board.
The public information request was filed Friday.
