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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 GIS and Mapping Services, http://www.gisms.umd.edu/ Description: The Geographic Information Systems and Mapping Services (GIS-MS) is the mapping and spatial analysis component for the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland. Here we offer analytical and cartographic services to clients inside and outside the university. Topics: Historic Preservation, Planning/Zoning, What You Can Do With Others Jurisdiction: Maryland Other Maryland Links Baltimore County Historical Trust Baltimore County Historical Trust, http://www.bcht.org/ Description: The BCHT is chartered to register historic properties and historically significant architectural landmarks in Baltimore County. For over thirty years they have preserved the region's unique, regional architectural heritage for generations to come. Topics: Historic Preservation Jurisdiction: Maryland 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 Return to top of page 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 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 Housing and Community Development Maryland Historical Trust, http://www.marylandhistoricaltrust.net/index.html Description: The Maryland Historical Trust was formed in 1961 to assist the people of Maryland in identifying, studying, evaluating, preserving, protecting, and interpreting the state's significant prehistoric and historic districts, sites, structures, cultural landscapes, heritage areas, cultural objects, and artifacts, as well as less tangible human and community traditions. Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Historic Preservation Jurisdiction: Maryland Department of Natural Resources Resident-Curatorship Program, http://www.dnr.state.md.us/publiclands/curatorship.html Description: The Resident-Curatorship Program secures private donations of restoration and maintenance services for state-owned historic structures located on Maryland Department of Natural Resources land. Curators pledge to restore a state-owned historic property and also to maintain the property in good condition after the restoration. In return the curator receives a lifetime of residence in the structure, without rent or mortgage payments. Topics: Historic Preservation Jurisdiction: Maryland Return to top of page Historic Annapolis Foundation Historic Annapolis Foundation, http://www.annapolis.org/ Description: Historic Annapolis Foundation's mission is to preserve the distinctive quality of Maryland's Capital City through cultural resources and conservation, public advocacy, and educational programs so that our national heritage will be protected for future generations. Topics: Historic Preservation 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 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 Return to top of page 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 Peerless Rockville Peerless Rockville, http://peerlessrockville.org/ Description: Peerless Rockville safeguards and promotes Rockville's past by preserving buildings, spaces, objects and information important to our city's heritage. Peerless Rockville advances its goals through education, example, advocacy and community involvement. Topics: Historic Preservation Jurisdiction: Maryland Preservation Howard County Preservation Howard County, http://preservationhowardcounty.org/ Description: The mission of Preservation Howard County is to actively pursue the preservation of the historical and cultural heritage of Howard County, Maryland and to increase public awareness and appreciation of our non-renewable resources. Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Historic Preservation Jurisdiction: Maryland Preservation Maryland Preservation Maryland, http://www.preservemd.org/ Description: Preservation Maryland is a statewide 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving Maryland's rich and diverse heritage of buildings, landscapes, and archeological sites. Through advocacy, outreach, and funding programs Preservation Maryland assists individuals and communities with efforts to protect and utilize their historic resources. Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Historic Preservation Jurisdiction: Maryland Return to top of page 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 State Department of Assessments and Taxation Real Property Information, http://www.dat.state.md.us/sdatweb/real.html Description: Information about property taxes, assessments, and tax credits for homeowners, property owners, and farmers. Topics: Fiscal Impact/Taxation, Historic Preservation, Land Preservation 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 Maryland Scenic Byways Program, http://www.sha.state.md.us/exploremd/oed/scenicByways/BywaysProgram.asp Description: The Maryland Scenic Byways program funds the development of community-based corridor management plans (CMP), which make scenic byways eligible for additional grants as well as a National Scenic Byway designation. A CMP is a guide for the promotion, preservation and development of a scenic byway that addresses issues that can be as diverse as tourism development, roadway safety, highway signs or the preservation of natural features and historic structures. It is the result of local governments, organizations, and residents working together to document in maps and text the vision for their scenic byway. Topics: Historic Preservation, Land Preservation, Transportation Jurisdiction: Maryland 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 Return to top of page 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 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 Intro to Riparian Forest Buffer, www.agnr.umd.edu Description: Fact Sheet: Introduction to Forest Riparian Buffer. Topics: land preservation: planning&zoning, water, ag&rural change, historic preservation 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 Farmland preservation- an estate planning tool, www.agnr.umd.edu Description: Agricultural land preservation can help tax burden etc. Topics: land preservation, historic preservation, planning&zoning, fiscal impact/taxation, ag&rural change 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 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 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 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 Fannie Mae Foundation Milleniumburg-Style strategies in Action, www.fanniemaefoundation.org Description: 3 different strategies of milleniumburg.. 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, www.farmlandinfo.org Description: Comprehensive report: sustainable resource based industries threatened by increasing land costs, fragmentation of agricultural land. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, historic preservation, housing, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Maryland, Virginia, Delaware MD Center for Agro-Ecology Public understanding/support needed to protect Eastern Shore Way of Life, agroecology.widgetworks.com Description: PR: Eastern shore facing 3 challenges to protect land. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, water, historic preservation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Maryland MD Center for Agro-Ecology 2004 Year in Review -Preserving MD's working landscapes, agroecology.widgetworks.com Description: Highlights ways Agro-Ecology center helps state find balance. Topics: land preservation presevation, planning&zoning, water, historic preservation, ag&rural change, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Maryland MD Center for Agro-Ecology The Downzoning Effect, agroecology.widgetworks.com Description: Lower density of residential development.merits of land preservation collide w/market forces. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities Jurisdiction: Maryland MD Center for Agro-Ecology County working lands conservation workshop, agroecology.widgetworks.com Description: Preserving working landscapes; downzoning and conservation easements... Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, water, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Maryland MD Center for Agro-Ecology Impediments to donation of conservation easements, agroecology.widgetworks.com Description: What barriers exist to easements; strengthen the use of donation as land use tool. Topics: land preservation, planning&zoning, housing, water, historic preservation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Maryland Chesapeake Bay Program Chesapeake Bay Agreement, www.chesapeakebay.net Description: Overview of goals & priority commitments for living resources; water quality; development; governance et al. Topics: land preservation, water, planning&zoning, historic preservation, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia Chesapeake Bay Program DID YOU KNOW? Facts about the Chesapeake Bay, www.chesapeakebay.net Description: Numerous facts and features of the Chesapeake Bay. Topics: land preservation, water, planning&zoning, historic preservation, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia Chesapeake Bay Program Chesapeake Bay: How is it doing?, www.chesapeakebay.net Description: In depth power point on the state of the Chesapeake Bay. Topics: land preservation, water, planning&zoning, historic preservation, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay Exec Council sets up watershed financing authority, www.bayjournal.com Description: Bay cleanup leaders took first step toward a watershed wide authority... Topics: land preservation, water, planning&zoning, historic preservation, transportation, fiscal impact/taxation, healthy communities, ag&rural change Jurisdiction: Washington DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia
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