Land Preservation Reports
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| 2010-01-14 | |
| Sprawling development threatens Maryland’s last remaining open spaces, while global warming threatens to inundate parts of Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay waterfront over the next century and create major disruptions to agriculture, natural systems and human health across the state. Transit-oriented development – the creation of compact, walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods around transit stations – can contribute to addressing both of these difficult challenges. Transit-oriented development can consume less land than traditional forms of development, reducing the pressure to pave over open spaces. And residents of transit-oriented developments drive much less than residents of sprawling suburban areas, reducing global warming pollution, easing our dependence on oil, and reducing traffic on our roads. | |
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| 2009-04-01 | |
| Four years ago, a developer proposed to build 4,300 homes in a beautiful valley in Allegany County, despite being in conflict with the local development plan. Some believe the development and the decisions in Allegany County are as isolated as the remote western county. They are not. As shown in this report, the struggle between sensible plans and unrelenting growth are playing out everywhere across the state. Comprehensive plans, a democratic and necessary institution for the health of our communities, are being flouted throughout the state. | |
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| 2009-03-10 | |
| Sprawling development has continued in Maryland in the decade since the enactment of the state’s smart growth laws. Indeed, the pace of land development for residential and commercial uses has been essentially unchanged compared to the decades immediately prior to the launch of Maryland’s smart growth strategy. | |
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| 2006-12-04 | |
| The failure to fund Maryland’s successful land conservation programs over the last few years has scaled back preservation efforts and threatened the state’s unspoiled farms and forests and the health of the Chesapeake Bay. Cuts in these programs have altered the delicate balance between growth and preservation that Maryland has achieved in the past decades. This report illustrates the potential impacts of continued shortfalls in preservation funding by highlighting how seven important areas embodying elements of Maryland’s natural heritage could be affected. | |
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