The proposed Fiscal Year 2014 budget includes funding to complete Gough Park at Honeygo Boulevard and Joppa Road. This 17-acre property was purchased by Baltimore County in 2000, but has remained undeveloped due to lack of funding. Thanks to a $1.5 million contribution from the Perry Hall Recreation Council, the county will proceed with improvements to the park and construction of a gymnasium.
I am delighted at the opportunity to complete a long-delayed park in Perry Hall. Land for Gough Park was originally bought when I was President of the Perry Hall Improvement Association. Gough Park will be the first new park to open in the Fifth District in about a decade.
The county will also complete a new trail at Indian Rock Park, the 16-acre wooded area west of Perry Hall High School. I have long advocated for this trail to make the park more accessible to walkers and bikers. It will provide a pathway from Ebenezer Road to the neighborhoods near Silver Spring Road. This is also the first new trail to be finished in Perry Hall in about a decade, since Cowenton Ridge Park opened.
Indian Rock Park is the centerpiece of a greenway we created last year that stretches from Joppa Road to White Marsh Boulevard.