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Magnolia Woods
On April 17, 1992, the owners of an 19-acre tract near Magnolia donated the land to the Trust. The property, zoned General Industrial, lies along Mountain Road (Route 152) at its intersection with the Amtrak right-of-way at the entrance to Edgewood Arsenal. It is almost entirely wooded, and is braided on the east by small streams.
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The donors, Alan E. Berkowitz, Paul Wartzman and Max Ellison, gave the property to the Trust without restriction expecting that it would be sold and the proceeds used for conservation projects. As with all charitable donations to qualified organizations, the donors were able to deduct the value of their gift from their taxable income.
After acquiring this land, the Trust applied for and received exemption from paying the annual Real Property tax.
In 2002 the Trust with the owners of two contiguous properties totaling forty-one acres retained a local engineering company to do a feasibility study of the combined properties totaling 60 acres, with each paying one-third of the $3,300 fee. The Trust's 19-acre wooded parcel lies entirely within the 100-year floodplain but is split by Md. Route 152 into two parts of sixteen and three acres.
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photo: Harford County GIS
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The Directors of the Trust are negotiating to sell the three-acre part to the owner of the adjacent land of the same type. It has listed the 16-acre part with a local real estate agent, Edward L. Garono, who does this kind of work as a volunteer for the Trust. The Directors will use the net-proceeds of these sales for other conservation projects, such as its purchase of the 45.5 acres of Gertrude E. Parks.
This property is know private.
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