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Calvert Development Raises Concerns
By Christy Goodman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, September 21, 2008
The owners of Twin Shields Golf Course in Dunkirk have received preliminary approval from Calvert County officials to build more than 50 houses there, ultimately closing the 40-year-old private facility.
Karen Shields Keen and Diane Shields Allen, the daughters of one of the twin brothers who founded the course in 1968, plan to develop the Lakes at Twin Shields, a 51-house community with an average lot size of 1.62 acres.
The Calvert Planning Commission gave its initial approval for the subdivision Wednesday, despite concerns from neighbors that the development would exacerbate traffic problems in the area.
One longtime Twin Shields golfer mourned the prospective loss of the 18-hole facility, one of only two in the county.
“Don’t let it go away. You are making a big mistake,” said William Newman, who has been golfing at “the Shields’s place” for many years.