A Maryland court heard arguments Thursday in a case involving a historic African American cemetery in Bethesda.
Montgomery County鈥檚 Housing Opportunities Commission owns a parking lot for a high-rise apartment complex on Westbard Avenue just off River Road, where the Moses Cemetery was located. It was paved over to create the parking lot.
The commission, which owns the building, wants to sell it, but a judge has blocked that sale. It has asked Maryland鈥檚 Court of Special Appeals, the state’s second highest court, to overturn that decision.
Frederick Douglas, an attorney for the Housing Commission, said the judge who blocked the sale made an 鈥渆rroneous finding鈥� concerning rights in the case.
Steve Lieberman, an attorney for the which is trying to stop the sale, said in the hearing that Maryland law provides a degree of protection where there is a sale of property like this.
He told 海角精品黑料 that the housing commission should be focused on memorializing the site and 鈥渘ot allow cars to drive over 200 human beings every day.鈥�
A decision is expected in four to six weeks.
