Greenbury Point should be reopened to the public

I live on Martins Cove, which is adjacent to the USNA golf course flowing into Mill Creek. I have been a regular user of Greenbury Point for 25 years. This treasure has served as a recreation spot for thousands of Anne Arundel citizens as well as USNA folks.

The Capital has written about competing interests for this green space, yet there is very little recent news about what will really happen with this land — building a restricted additional 18-hole golf course or keeping this 240-acre land that fronts both the Chesapeake Bay and the mouth of the Severn River an “open and publicly accessible area.”

I am very frustrated with what has recently happened with clear attempts to intimidate users of the area. A chain link fence has been erected around the perimeter and new gates and padlocks have been erected, and access has been significantly restricted for the public.

Adding insult to injury, on a gorgeous fall day, this past Saturday (Nov. 12), I took my bike to enjoy a ride around GP, which I have done for years and it was all locked up.

In past months , the Chesapeake Conservancy has partnered with the Severn River Association and Chesapeake Bay Foundation in opposition to this ill-conceived proposal. Recently, 25 nonprofits signed a joint letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro in opposition and the two U.S. Maryland senators and two representatives also wrote a letter voicing their concern. There is still bandwidth for concerned citizens to undertake strategic steps to “fight” these egregious punitive actions.

I think the time has come to push to REOPEN GP to the public. ARE WE NOT THE OWNERS OF THIS GREEN FIELD SPACE VIA OUR TAX BASE and the Navy public stewards of this treasure?

— Kenneth Green, Annapolis