The Northeast Regional Center for Rural
Development Land Use Toolbox
Maryland - Healthy Communities
links
University
of Maryland
Center
for Heritage Resource Studies,
http://www.heritage.umd.edu/INDEX.htm
Description:
The Center's mission is to provide leadership and encourage research in
applied activities that stress the relationship between cultural heritage
and the environment.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
University
of Maryland
Environmental
Finance Center,
http://www.efc.umd.edu/
Description:
The Environmental Finance Center works with communities to develop innovative
funding and financing strategies for environmental and community development
projects. The Center is supported through a partnership with the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
University
of Maryland
Forest
Stewardship Resources,
http://www.naturalresources.umd.edu/Forest_Stewardship.html
Description:
Forest stewardship is "the managing of forest resources in a way
that meets the needs of the current owners, but does not detract or degrade
the use by future generations." It requires that the owner has a
sense of responsibility; knows the opportunities; is aware of the consequences
of actions; and is guided by objectives.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
University
of Maryland
Land
Use Change Initiative (LUCI),
http://luci.umd.edu/
Description:
The Land Use Change Initiative (LUCI) is a multidisciplinary research
initiative at the University of Maryland College Park, Department of Geography.
Our mission within the context of global change science, is to determine
the extent, causes and consequences of land use practices and land cover
change, contributing to the sustainable management of natural resources
and improved human livelihood.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
University
of Maryland
Maryland
Sea Grant,
http://www.mdsg.umd.edu/index.html
Description:
The Maryland Sea Grant College supports innovative marine research and
education, with a special focus on the Chesapeake Bay.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Other Maryland Links
Allegheny
Trail Alliance
Allegheny
Trail Alliance,
http://www.atatrail.org/ata-home.htm
Description: The Allegheny Trail Alliance is a coalition of seven trail-building organizations in southwestern Pennsylvania and western Maryland whose purpose is to assure the construction, maintenance and use of the multi-purpose trail between Pittsburgh, PA, and Cumberland, MD, where the trail will join the C&O Canal Towpath Trail, which continues on to Washington, DC.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania, Maryland
Appalachian
Mountain Club
Appalachian
Mountain Club,
http://www.outdoors.org/
Description:
The enhancement program reflects a growing recognition that transportation
programs, while vital for national mobility and international competitiveness,
must also be environmentally sound. The Vermont Agency of Transportation
(VTrans) encourages local communities to be directly involved in enhancement
projects. Enhancement activities are a means to more creatively and sensitively
integrate transportation facilities into the surrounding communities.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
Canal
Place Heritage Area
Canal
Place Heritage Area,
http://www.canalplace.org/html/home.htm
Description: Canal Place keeps Cumberland's transportation heritage alive, offering a variety of activities for the whole family. Visitors can ride a steam train, hike or bike the towpath, tour a full scale Canal Boat Replica, learn about canal history at the C&O Canal National Historical Park's Cumberland Visitor Center, enjoy unique festivals like our annual C&O CanalFest and, in the near future, take a ride on a canal boat on the rewatered terminus.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
City
of Gaithersburg
Smart
Growth Policy,
http://www.ci.gaithersburg.md.us/documents/smartgrowth.pdf
Description: The Smart Growth Policy document is general in nature but provides clear guidance for the community and gives incentives for development to be in a manner consistent with the policies that are set forth.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Housing, Planning/Zoning, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Coalition
for Smarter Growth
Coalition
for Smarter Growth,
http://www.smartergrowth.net/
Description: The Coalition for Smarter Growth is dedicated to preserving quality of life in the Washington Region for current and future generations. We believe that suburban sprawl is contributing to higher taxes in developing jurisdictions and to disinvestment and blight in older communities. We oppose public spending for an Outer Beltway which will contribute to sprawl without reducing traffic gridlock; destroy farmland, open space, and the environment; and subsidize the continued movement of jobs and residents from our Nation's Capital and older suburbs.
Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Planning/Zoning, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maryland, Washington, D.C.
Code
of Maryland Regulations
Code
of Maryland Regulations,
http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/
Description: Maryland State agency regulations are compiled in the Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR). COMAR contains 33 Titles, with each Title usually corresponding to a department or agency. Each regulation is assigned a unique four-part codification number.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of the Environment
Stormwater
Management Program,
http://www.mde.state.md.us/Programs/WaterPrograms/SedimentandStormwater/index.asp
Description: Stormwater management practices help control nonpoint source pollution through the use of nonstructural and/or structural techniques to intercept surface runoff from developed areas, filter and treat this runoff, and then discharge it at a controlled rate. The overriding condition that governs the quantity of stormwater runoff is the amount of impervious surfaces located on your property (driveways, roofs, carports, sidewalks, etc.) Stormwater quality, however, is governed by the accumulation of pollutants on the entire surface area, regardless of whether it is grassed or paved.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Housing and Community Development
Community
Revitalization Programs,
http://www.dhcd.state.md.us/nav_revit/index.asp
Description:
Information about programs for revitalizing communities.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Planning/Zoning
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Natural Resources
Community
Parks and Playground Program,
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/grantsandloans/cpp.html
Description: Investing in the future of Maryland's established communities by revitalizing parks and playgrounds statewide.
Topics: Healthy Communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Natural Resources
Maryland
Greenways,
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/greenways/
Description: Maryland's Greenways and Water Trails Program works with public and private sector partners to preserve a network of natural corridors that connect areas of open space. Some corridors in the system include trails along rivers, streams, ridgelines, and abandoned rail lines, as well as vegetated corridors with no improvements for human access.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Natural Resources
Program
Open Space,
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/pos.html
Description: Program Open Space(POS) is a nationally recognized program providing dedicated funds for Maryland's state and local parks and conservation areas. Established under the Department of Natural Resources in 1969, POs symbolizes Maryland's long term commitment to conserving our natural resources while providing exceptional outdoor recreation opportunities for our citizens.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Natural Resources
Urban
and Community Forestry Program,
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/programs/urban/
Description: The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Forest Service is the state agency responsible for the management and protection of the state's urban forestry resources. The group within the Forest Service with direct oversight is called the Urban and Community Forestry Program (U&CF).
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Department
of Planning
Department
of Planning,
http://www.mdp.state.md.us/#
Description:
MDP coordinates the plans and programs of government agencies, private
enterprises, and the citizens of Maryland to support State Planning Policy;
works to ensure livable communities that retain their value over time;
serves as the lead agency for land preservation and recreation planning;
and maintains and develops resources necessary for the State's planning
needs.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
East
Coast Greenway
East
Coast Greenway,
http://www.greenway.org/
Description:
The East Coast Greenway will be the nation's first long-distance, city-to-city,
multi-modal transportation corridor for cyclists, hikers, and other non-motorized
users. Our goal is to connect existing and planned trails that are locally
owned and managed to form a continuous, safe, green route -- easily identified
by the public through signage, maps, users guides, and common services.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island
Environmental
Protection Agency
Center
for Sustainability,
http://www.epa.gov/r3chespk/center.htm
Description:
EPA Region III's Center for Sustainability is managed by the Chesapeake
Bay Program Office out of EPA Region III's Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
office. The Center's mission is to link our environmental protection efforts
with larger economic and social goals.
Topics: Healthy Communities
Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Eyes
of Paint Branch
Eyes
of Paint Branch,
http://www.eopb.org/
Description: The Eyes of Paint Branch was formed in 1994 to preserve and enhance the ecology of the Paint Branch. We are a grass-roots organization of volunteer citizens devoted to preserving the Paint Branch through education, community awareness, and action.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Live
Baltimore Home Center
Live
in Baltimore,
http://www.livebaltimore.com/index.html
Description: Live Baltimore Home Center is an independent non-profit organization founded in 1997 to promote the benefits of city living. As the single source for information about living in Baltimore City, Live Baltimore provides comprehensive information about city neighborhoods, real estate professionals and home buying incentive programs.
Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Lower
Eastern Shore Heritage Committee
Lower
Eastern Shore Heritage Committee,
http://www.skipjack.net/le_shore/heritage
Description:
The Lower Eastern Shore Heritage Committee is a grassroots, nonprofit
organization whose purpose is to preserve, protect and promote the cultural,
natural and historical heritage of Somerset, Wicomico and Worcester counties.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Maryland
Association of Forest Conservancy District Boards
Maryland
Association of Forest Conservancy District Boards,
http://www.mdforest.sailorsite.net/
Description:
For more than fifty years, Maryland's Forest Conservancy District Boards
have been working to perpetuate Maryland's forest resource. As volunteer
advocates for forestry, Forestry Board members focus their attention on
Maryland's trees and forests...our renewable natural resource.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Maryland
Coastal Bays Program
Maryland
Coastal Bays Program,
http://www.mdcoastalbays.org/
Description:
Part of the National Estuary Program, the Maryland Coastal Bays Program
is a cooperative effort between Worcester County, Berlin, and Ocean City
which have come together to produce the first ever management plan for
their bays. The Maryland Coastal Bays Program protects the land and waters
of Assawoman, Isle of Wight, Sinepuxent, Newport, and Chincoteague bays.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Maryland
Forests Association
Maryland
Forests Association Homepage,
http://www.mdforests.org/
Description:
The mission of the Maryland Forests Association is "to promote the
maintenance of a healthy and productive forests land base so as to enhance
the economic, environmental, and social well-being of all who live in
Maryland."
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Maryland
Judiciary
Maryland
Appellate Court Opinions,
http://www.courts.state.md.us/opinions.html
Description: Only reported opinions are available here. Reported opinions appearing on this website may not be the final, official version of the text of Appellate Court opinions/orders. Only the bound volumes of the Maryland Reports and Maryland Appellate Reports contain the final, official texts of the reported opinions of the Maryland Court of Appeals and the Maryland Court of Special Appeals.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Nanticoke
Watershed Alliance
Nanticoke
Watershed Alliance,
http://www.nanticokeriver.org/index.html
Description:
The mission of the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance is to conserve the natural,
cultural, and recreational resources of the Nanticoke River watershed
for the benefit of present and future generations.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Water/Sewer, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland
Natural
Resource Conservation Service - USDA
Maryland
NRCS,
http://www.md.nrcs.usda.gov/
Description:
NRCS soil conservationists, soil scientists, agronomists, ecologists,
engineers, planners, and other specialists promote land stewardship by
providing technical assistance through teams to address surface and groundwater
quality; wetlands, riparian areas, and biodiversity; aquatic and terrestrial
habitat; and impacts of landuse changes. NRCS teams work on all of a state's
landscapes: agricultural, wetlands and riparian areas, suburban, rural,
urban centers, and forested.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Northeast-Midwest
Institute
Northeast-Midwest
Institute,
http://www.nemw.org
Description:
The Northeast-Midwest Institute is a Washington-based, private, nonprofit,
and non-partisan research organization dedicated to economic vitality,
environmental quality, and regional equity for Northeast and Midwest states.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont
Office
of Smart Growth
Office
of Smart Growth,
http://www.smartgrowth.state.md.us/
Description:
The Office of Smart Growth will continue and build upon its mission to
coordinate the Priority Places efforts of state agencies, work with developers
and local officials to help them bring smart growth projects to fruition,
and educate and informe the public.
Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Potomac
Conservancy
Potomac
Conservancy,
http://www.potomac.org/
Description:
The Potomac Conservancy conducts a comprehensive land protection program;
develops and implements a variety of land and water restoration projects;
provides counseling and other conservation support services for more than
70 other land trusts across four states and the District of Columbia;
provides meaningful, hands-on volunteer and education programs for adults
and young people to foster a stewardship ethic; and partners with other
land trusts, conservation organizations, and local, state, and federal
agencies to more efficiently and expeditiously achieve land protection
and restoration goals.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
Potomac
River Association
Potomac
River Association, Inc.,
http://www.p-r-a.org/
Description:
PRA, incorporated in the State of Maryland, is a tax-exempt nonprofit
environmental, educational, civic, and charitable group. PRA advocates
the responsible stewardship, or land ethics, of our planet by enlarging
the boundaries of concerns beyond soils, water, plants, animals, air,
and functional coexistence without unnecessary harm.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Housing, Planning/Zoning, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Potomac
Trail Council
Potomac
Trail Council,
http://www.potomactrail.org/
Description:
The Potomac Trail Council (PTC) is an alliance of community organizations
and local agencies committed to the development, protection, interpretation
and celebration of the Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail (PHNST).
Our goal is to secure land and water routes in the PHNST corridor for
public use while protecting natural settings and historic landscapes.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland, Pennsylvania
Smart
Growth Network
Maryland
Smart Growth Articles,
http://www.smartgrowth.org/news/bystate.asp?state=MD&res=800
Description:
Listing of news articles relating to smart growth issues in a specific
state.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Housing, Land Preservation, Planning/Zoning, Transportation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Smart
Step Forward
Smart
Step Forward,
http://www.smartstepforward.org/
Description:
The partners in Smart Step Forward are creating a walking campaign called
"A Smart Step Forward" that seeks to create healthier communities,
raise activity levels of Maryland's citizens, improve general health and
save both public health and private insurance dollars. Our twin goals
are to encourage Marylanders to walk more and to encourage land use decision-makers
to make Maryland communities more walkable.
Topics: Healthy Communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
State
Highway Administration
Bicycles,
http://www.sha.state.md.us/exploremd/bicyclists/oppe/bicyclists.asp?id=H14+H1
Description:
The Department of Transportation recognizes bicycling and walking as integral
elements of a muli-modal approach to transportation. With the Maryland
Transportation Plan, MDOT, allied with committed citizens, has the opportunity
to strengthen and build upon the accomplishments of the past and make
bicycling and walking a convenient, efficient, and enjoyable option within
the framework of an integrated statewide transportation network.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
State
Highway Administration
Improving
Our Community Programs,
http://www.sha.state.md.us/ImprovingOurCommunity/ImprovingOurCommunity.asp?id=I84
Description:
Information about Department of Transportation programs related to improving
communities.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
State
Highway Administration
National
Recreational Trails Program,
http://www.sha.state.md.us/exploremd/oed/trails/trails.asp
Description:
The National Recreational Trails program funds the development of community-based,
motorized and non-motorized recreational trail projects. The program provides
funds for all kinds of recreational trail uses, such as pedestrian uses
(hiking, running, wheelchair use), bicycling, in-line skating, equestrian
use, cross-country skiing, off-road motorcycling, all-terrain vehicle
riding, four-wheel driving.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Transportation
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Sustainable
Development Institute
Community
Planning - St. Mary's County,
http://www.susdev.org/Community_Planning/community_planning.html
Description:
Our goal is to engage local citizens and leaders in a broad effort to
define core values and aspirations connected to place, and build community
consensus and policy around them. Our methodology's organizing principle
is whole systems thinking, as defined and practiced in recent years by
the late Donella Meadows and others, and applying this methodology to
critical issues in a rapidly evolving community.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others
Jurisdiction: Maryland
USDA
Forest Service
MFO
- Mid-Atlantic Center for Urban & Community Forestry at Keystone College,
http://www.fs.fed.us/na/morgantown/macucf/macucf.html
Description: The Mid-Atlantic Center for Community and Urban Forestry addresses natural resource issues and opportunities and focuses its efforts to maximize the impacts of urban and community forestry programs in the Mid-Atlantic States.
Topics:
Healthy Communities
Jurisdiction: Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, West Virginia
USDA
Forest Service
Northeastern
Area State and Private Forestry,
http://www.na.fs.fed.us/
Description:
The mission of the USDA Forest Service Northeastern Area is to lead and
help support sustainable forest management and use across the landscape
to provide benefits for the people of the 20 Northeastern and Midwestern
States and the District of Columbia.
Topics: Ag & Rural Change, Healthy Communities, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
Wicomico
Scenic River Commission
Wicomico
Scenic River Commission,
http://www.charlescounty.org/pgm/planning/plans/landpreserv/wicomico/default.htm
Description:
The intentions of the Wicomico Scenic River Commission, in accordance
with the Wicomico River Study and Management Plan are to protect the resources
of the river, swamp and adjacent lands through a program initiated and
controlled by local citizens and their local government.
Topics: Healthy Communities, Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Water/Sewer
Jurisdiction: Maryland
American Farmland Trust
Agricultural conservation easements, www.farmlandinfo.org
Description: what is a land easement.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Woodland management: Glossary of Forestry terms, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Glossary of commonly used forestry terminology.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, ag&rural change, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
How to determine property boundaries, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Accurately marking and managing property boundaries.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, ag&rural change, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Agricultural/demographic changes in Mid Atlantic region, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Report detailing implications for ethinic/specialty produce.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Sources of Info and guidance for Forest Stewards, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Resources for Forestland management.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Developing a Forest Stewardship Plan, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: The key to forest and woodland management.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Measuring your Forests, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact Sheet w/guidelines for measuring/calculating forest boundaries.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, ag&rural change, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Maryland's Forest: Past,Present, Future, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact sheet for woodland owners understanding of forest as a renewable resource.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, ag&rural change, healthy communities, water
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Riparian buffer management, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact Sheet: Basics of riparian buffer mgmt.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, historic preservation, ag&rural change, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Riparian forest buffer: design, establish, maintain , www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact Sheet: basics of design, establish and maintain-riparian buffer.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, historic preservation, ag&rural change, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Landowner costs & benefits of riparian buffer, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact Sheet w/advantages of riparian buffers .
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, ag&rural change, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Integrated pond management - MD, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact Sheet w/broad overview of pond management.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, ag&rural change, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Drinking water standards, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: EPA water standards with facts; effects of contaminated water.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, healthy communities, ag&rural change
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Guidelines for application of digested sewage sludge, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact Sheet w/guidelines for sewage sludge.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, ag&rural change, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
UM Extension
Introduction to wildlife managememt, www.agnr.umd.edu
Description: Fact sheet w/guidelines of basic wildlife management.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, ag&rural change, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
National Governors Assn
Attacking sprawl by revitalizing older communities, www.nga.org
Description: Benefits of Brownfield redevelopment of older communitites.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change
Jurisdiction: Maryland, Massachussetts, New Jersey, Pennsylvania
National Governors Assn
Fixing It First: Improving present infrasturcture, www.nga.org
Description: Build/maintain present assets before creating new ones.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change
Jurisdiction: Pennsylvania, Massachussetts, Delaware, Maryland
Smart Growth - governors office -MD
Smart Growth Best Practices - Parking, www.smartgrowth.state.md.us
Description: Smart growth study of parking strategies that meet BP mgmt.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, transportation, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
AFT & CBF
Conserving Washington-Baltimore Green network, www.farmland.org
Description: Mapping a coordinated green network in the region.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, ag&rural change, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland, Washington DC
Trust for Public Land
Preserving land in the chesapeake watershed, www.tpl.org
Description: Progress of bay state and how can rededicate to the commitment.
Topics: land preservation, water, planning&zoning, housing, transportation, healthy communities, ag&rural change
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Abandoned Housing, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: Challenges that face cities w/high rates of abandoned housing.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, healthy communities, transportation, ag&rural change
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
Managaing Urban Sprawl: Effects of land use externalities, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: How neighborhood interaction, as land use externalities influence land development decisions..
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, housing, transportation, healthy communities, ag&rural change
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The legacy of contamination and redevelopment of inner city industrial districts, www.lincolninst.edu
Description: This study examines the role land contamination plays in hindering central city industrial redevelopment..
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, fiscal impact/taxation, historic preservation, housing, healthy communities,
Jurisdiction: Maryland
MD Dept of Planning
Models and guidelines for Infill development, www.mdp.state.md.us
Description: Offering remedies that overcome barriers and identifying alternative approaches.
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, historic preservation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
MD Dept of Planning
Smart Neighborhoods, www.mdp.state.md.us
Description: Report examines characteristics of existing traditional neighborhoods.
Topics: land preservation, housing, planning&zoning, water, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Center for Watershed protection
Recommended model development principles for Frederick, MD, www.cwp.org
Description: How Frederick MD adopted 22 design principles within their community.
Topics: land preservation, housing, planning&zoning, water, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland
Fannie Mae Foundation
Milleniumburg-Style strategies in Action, www.fanniemaefoundation.org
Description: 3 different strategies of milleniumburgÂ…..
Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities
Jurisdiction: Maryland, New Jersey
American Farmland Trust
Regional Economic Development Strategy For Resource Based Industries on MD' s Eastern Shore,