Over 50 Years

Wade Kach has been in elected office in Baltimore County for more than half a century, first as a state legislator then as a county councilman.

Kach, who is 78, resigned from the council late last week for health reasons. He had already decided not to run for another term this year.

In a recent interview with WYPR, conducted after he had announced his retirement but before his resignation, Kach, a Republican, talked about his time on the county council. Kach said he remains concerned about development encroaching on his rural district, which stretches to the Pennsylvania line.

Kach said through the years he’s been pressured to move the Urban-Rural Demarcation Line, the URDL, which restricts development in his district, so the York Road business corridor can stretch farther north.

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