Growth Action News Articles
2009
06/25/09
If someone wants to change the way a property may be used, establish a use not normally permitted or be relieved of following the letter of the law; he can apply to the Administrative Hearing Office (AHO)pdf
06/15/09
When it comes to land development,Americans seem to dislike two things: too much sprawl and too much density. pdf
05/18/09
TischlerBise conducted a Fiscal Impact Analysis (FIA) for Anne Arundel (AA) County using a standard methodological approach that it has employed in performing similar analyses for many other clients. Unfortunately, the unrealistic assumptions employed in projecting growth over an 18 year time period raise serious concerns about the validity of their findings that new growth pays for itself and that faster growth of both residential and nonresidential development generate better fiscal results than trends development.
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05/21/09
from From: Maryland Department of Planning: http://www.mdp.state.md.us/smartintro.htm
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05/18/09
COUNTY COUNCIL OF ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY, MARYLAND
Legislative Session 2009, Legislative Day No. 20
Bill No. 44-09
Introduced by Mr. Reilly
By The County Council, May 18, 2009
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03/17/09
A Conference by The Annapolis Sustainable Business Alliance
Keynote Speaker StacyMitchell of the Institute for Local Self Reliance. A nationally recognized expert on retail development and indpendent business; a sought after speaker and advisor to communities, she is author of The Hometown Advantage and Big-Box Swindle, on Top Ten 2006 list of business books.
Panels with local experts addressing:
How to Market Local Business & Fill Empty Stores
Why Food is Key and Stimulates Other Sectors
Local Lending: Where Will the Money Come From?
Order tickets early $15.00 members, $25.00 non-members
after March 15th $20.00 members, $30.00 non-members purchase tickets at the Maryland Hall Ticket Office
Go to Tickets.MarylandHal.org
more info contact:
www.annapolisfirst.org
410.956.1002
02/27/09
"Transforming the Strip: Towards a Smarter, More Sustainable Future for Gateway Approaches"
this is a workshop conducted by Randall Arendt and will be heald at the University of Maryland landscape Architecture Program Room 1130 Plant Sciences Building College Park, MD
Friday, March 6, 2009
:9:00am-4:00pm
#45 includes morning coffee and lunch. Registration and coffee 8:30am Critique Hall (0104 Plant Sciences Building).
The presentation focuses on practical ways of reclaiming existing highway strips characterized by dysfunction and viusal blight. Multiple strategies blend the twin disciplines of Conservation Design and New Urbanism for rebuilding these corridors.
