In her commentary, "Don't sign it" (Oct. 18), Ruth Goldstein
notes that the Baltimore County zoning process is a game. She
points out that "Mr. [Howard] Brown and Mr. [David] Cordish got
outplayed by other developers." She is absolutely right. What
she doesn't pause to realize is that both sides are playing a
game where the Baltimore County Council is the stand-in referee.
As a citizen of Baltimore County, District 2, I do not want
rezoning to be a game. It should be a process. Jujitsu is an
ancient Japanese "art" or "technique" that represents the
manipulating of the opponent's force against himself rather than
confronting it with one's own force. If riding the financial
coattails of a developer is what it takes to have the entire
process reevaluated, so be it.  Timothy Naylor