[PCA] NEWS: State making little progress with Smart Growth, study says

Olivia Kwong plant at plantconservation.org
Fri Jan 7 08:57:31 CST 2011


http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/green/bs-gr-smart-growth-20110105,0,510607.story

State making little progress with Smart Growth, study says
Policies had little impact on sprawl, congestion
By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun
12:10 a.m. EST, January 6, 2011

Thirteen years after Maryland embarked on a nationally recognized effort 
to promote Smart Growth, the state's laws and policies have had little 
discernible impact on sprawl or traffic congestion, a new study says, and 
farms and forests are still threatened by development.

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