BALTIMORE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP Newsletter
November 10, 2000

Land Use and Transportation Issues Around the Region
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Welcome to the electronic newsletter on smart growth issues in the
Baltimore region. See the end for more information about the Baltimore
Regional Partnership and this newsletter.

Website: www.balto-region-partners.org 

I N  T H I S  I S S U E

1. IN THE REGION: 
*More Than 1000 Turn Out for Rally for Region
*Carroll Commissioners Push to Weaken Water Agreement
*Lack of Vision Evident in Region's Transportation Program
*Celebration of Transit to Be Held November 16
*Calendar of Events

2. ACROSS THE COUNTRY
*Voters Approve Open Space, Transit Ballot Measures

3. AT THE STATE LEVEL
*Conservation Voters Release Poll, Scorecard
*Maryland Wins National Smart Growth Award

4. ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY
*Commission Embraces Annapolis Transportation Board's Vision
*Parole Committee Updating Town Center Plan

5. BALTIMORE CITY
*O'Malley Requests State Funds for 'Digital Harbor'

6. BALTIMORE COUNTY
*Condemnation Referendum Loses by More Than 2-1

7. HARFORD COUNTY
*CBF Objects to Aberdeen Water Proposal
*Council to Discuss Bill on Edgewood Town Center Zoning

8. HOWARD COUNTY 
*Council Amends Provisions on Rt. 32, Approves General Plan

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1. I N  T H E  R E G I O N

MORE THAN 1000 TURN OUT FOR CPHA'S RALLY FOR REGION

On October 18th, over 1,000 citizens from across metropolitan Baltimore
came together at the Citizens Planning and Housing Association's Rally for
the Region to call for regional cooperation in support of smart growth and
community quality of life. The broad public participation in the rally
included 17 event sponsors and 74 event partners from every jurisdiction,
including community, religious, business, environmental, and labor
organizations. Leading elected officials attended, including Governor
Glendening, Mayor O'Malley, Baltimore County Executive Dutch
Ruppersberger, and Howard County Executive James Robey. Citizens
presented the Action Agenda for the Baltimore Region, including five
issues: Seven-Day Rail Service, Program NeighborSpace, Sustainable
Communities Initiative, Fair Share Drug Treatment, and Regional Workforce
Development. Elected officials made commitments for implementation of
several of the Action Agenda items, including Governor Glendening's
announcement that he will seek Baltimore Metro service on Sunday beginning
in 2001.

For more information, contact CPHA at info@cpharegionalcampaign.org. 


CARROLL COMMISSIONERS PUSH TO WEAKEN WATER AGREEMENT

In a November 8 meeting with Baltimore City Mayor Martin O'Malley, Carroll
County Commissioners Robin Bartlett Frazier and Donald I. Dell pushed to
weaken to the region's Reservoir Watershed Management Agreement intended
to protect water quality in the Liberty Reservoir, though without much
apparent success. The two officials pushed to remove the word "Carroll"
from a clause in the agreement that currently requires both Carroll and
Baltimore Counties to maintain conservation and agricultural zoning in the
watershed to prevent runoff from additional development from polluting the
reservoir. They pursued the change despite the fact that third
commissioner Julia Gouge supports the current agreement and that many
Carroll civic leaders are adamantly opposed to the change. On November 1,
Dru Schmidt-Perkins, executive director of the smart growth group 1000
Friends of Maryland, wrote to Mayor O'Malley urging him to stand firm on
the current agreement. Schmidt-Perkins called the matter "an issue of
critical regional importance that must supersede individual jurisdictions’
aspirations for growth in areas that would compromise the integrity of the
watershed."

O'Malley appears to have stood firm. In the November 9 Baltimore Sun,
Commissioner Dell is quoted as saying "The mayor is concerned that our
development is pulling people out of the city." The mayor briefly, but
similarly, referred to the controversy while outlining his renewal plans
at the November 9 state transportation meeting for Baltimore City.

For more information contact Neil Ridgely, Finksburg Planning Area
Council, at brooksbend@erols.com, or Dru Schmidt-Perkins, 1000 Friends of
Maryland, at dru@friendsofmd.org. November 9 Sun story available at 
www.sunspot.net/content/archive/story?section=archive&pagename=story&storyid=1150510207308


LACK OF VISION EVIDENT IN REGION'S TRANSPORTATION PROGRAM

In comments on the draft 2000-2005 Transportation Improvement Program
(TIP) for the Baltimore region September 18, the Baltimore Regional
Partnership criticized the region's transportation board for an apparent
lack of vision and misplaced priorities. While the Partnership did
express some positive reaction to some clear attention paid in the program
to ensuring pedestrian and bicycle facilities on bridge replacement
projects, the comments primarily expressed frustration with the Baltimore
Regional Transportation Board's lack of an effective regional planning
process and lack of responsiveness on relatively straightforward
congestion reduction proposals. The Partnership singled out widening of
the Maryland Route 174 bridge over I-97 in Anne Arundel County and
widening of Guilford and Dorsey Roads in Howard and Anne Arundel Counties
as new projects to the five-year program that had previously not been
envisioned in the region's 20-year plan stretching out to 2020. The
Partnership also noted that the $54 million, one-way, 3-mile widening of
the Baltimore beltway from Maryland Route 144 to I-95 had been advanced in
the TIP while the Partnership had been told that consideration of a
proposed $5 million effort to market new Commuter Choice tax incentives
for employees to use transit and other alternatives to driving alone would
need to be delayed to the next year. Despite the Partnership's concerns,
the representatives of the region's elected officials approved the new TIP
and amendments to the 20-year plan unanimously with no changes at its
September 26 meeting.

For more information, contact Dan Pontious, Baltimore Regional
Partnership, at danp@balto-region-partners.org. Full text of Partnership
comments available at www.balto-region-partners.org/900tip_comments.htm. 


CELEBRATION OF TRANSIT TO BE HELD NOVEMBER 16

"Transit Matters: The Campaign for More and Better Transit" is the theme
of a November 16th event to benefit the Citizens Planning and Housing
Association's Transportation Program and the Transit Riders League of
Metropolitan Baltimore. Honorary Co-Chairs Congressman Elijah Cummings
and State Senator Barbara Hoffman will lead the gathering that begins at
6:00 PM. The event will be held at the MTA's impressive Light Rail
Operations Center at 200 W. North Ave. A shuttle bus will take people to
and from the North Avenue Light Rail Station. Honorees at the event will
include Donald C. Fry, Vice President of the Greater Baltimore Committtee
for Outstanding Public Service, State Delegate Pete Rawlings and State
Senator Barbara Hoffman for Outstanding Legislative Service, Annapolis
Transit as Outstanding Locally-Operated Transit System, and a
yet-to-be-named Transit Activist of the Year and awardee for Excellence in
Customer Service. Tickets are $10 for CPHA and Riders League members, $50
for non-members. 

For more information, please contact Jamie Kendrick, CPHA at
jamiek@cphabaltimore.org.


CALENDAR OF EVENTS

November 13-16
*WJZ Channel 13 series on traffic in the region. WJZ will broadcast a
four-part series, led by its four anchors, exploring the problem of
traffic congestion in the Baltimore region. The series will include
discussions of the role of sprawl, timing of traffic signals, transit, and
other aspects of the problem and potential solutions. The series will be
broadcast each evening, Monday-Thursday, at 5:00 and 11:00 PM. WJZ's web
site is www.wjz.com. 

November 16
*Transit Matters: the Campaign for More and Better Transit, 6:00 - 8:00
PM, MTA Light Rail Operations Center, 200 W. North Ave. (Shuttle bus
available from North Avenue Light Rail Station). $10 for member of CPHA
or Transit Riders League; $50 for non members. Contact Jamie Kendrick,
CPHA, at jamiek@cphabaltimore.org.

November 18
*Training on land-use issues for members of watershed protection
organizations. Hosted by Save Our Streams, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation,
and the Center for Watershed Protection. For more information, contact
Terry Cummings at tcummings@savethebay.cbf.org.

November 20
*Baltimore Regional Transportation Board monthly meeting. 5:30 PM,
Baltimore Metropolitan Council offices, 2700 Lighthouse Point East, Suite
310, Baltimore (on Boston St. near O'Donnell St., in Canton). Elected
officials are expected to attend and sit as the official membership of the
Board since new bylaws specifying their status were approved in July. For
more information contact Joan Gorsuch, Baltimore Metropolitan Council, at
jgorsuch@baltometro.org 

November 21
*Informational forum on "First Findings: A Preliminary Report on the Jones
Falls Valley," 7:00-8:30 PM at The Elm, 3100 Elm Avenue, Baltimore. For
more information, contact AB Associates at 410-547-6900.

March 15, 2001
*The Natural Step -- A Framework for Sustainability Workshop, at Tall
Oaks, Howard County. A workshop on sustainable development for regional
business, government, and community leaders, as well as architects,
designers, and planners. For more information contact Mare Cromwell at
mcromwell@toad.net.

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2. A C R O S S  T H E  C O U N T R Y

VOTERS APPROVE OPEN SPACE, TRANSIT BALLOT MEASURES

While not all state and local ballot measures to preserve land and manage
growth were approved on November 7, voters did okay several significant
proposals to protect open space and boost transit projects. Voters
approved incentives to preserve open space and expand parks in Ohio, Rhode
Island, Broward County, and Seattle. Florida voters approved a
constitutional amendment to develop rail links among its five largest
urban areas. Salt Lake City region voters approved new funding for
expanded bus service and potentially a new commuter rail line. Voters in
Silicon Valley approved by 70 percent a 30-year, 1/2-cent increase in the
sales tax to enable the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority to
undertake an ambitious $6 billion program to expand its commuter rail,
light rail, and bus service. (Carl Guardino, president and CEO of the
Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, had outlined the proposal and the more
modest, but successful, ones that preceded it in his talk on
public-private partnerships at the 1000 Friends of Maryland Annual Meeting
on October 16.) Voters in Washington rejected by 65 percent a measure
that would have declared new road and lane construction a top priority and
would have earmarked 90 percent of the state transportation fund for
roads. At the same time, growth control measures in Arizona and Colorado
failed at the ballot box, and Oregon voters approved a new law that could
complicate the enforcement of Portland's urban growth boundary.

For analysis and results of key state and regional initiatives by the
Brookings Institution, see www.brookings.edu/es/urban. For more
information on the Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group, visit www.svmg.org. 

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3. A T  T H E  S T A T E  L E V E L

CONSERVATION VOTERS RELEASE POLL, SCORECARD

The Maryland League of Conservation Voters Education Fund, a group that
tracks voter trends on environmental issues, recently released the results
of a May poll of likely voters that indicates strong support for curbs on
growth and bolstered mass transit. Seventy-five percent of Maryland
voters support strong limits on growth and development to protect
Maryland's quality of life, according to the poll. Regarding
transportation, sixty-one percent of Maryland voters believe that state
funds should be used to expand mass transit, such as light rail and buses,
while 23 percent believe those funds should be used to build more roads
and highways. Fully 86 percent of voters support making tax breaks
available to employers who provide free transit passes to their employees,
such as Maryland's landmark Commuter Choice tax benefits. The telephone
survey of 606 registered voters likely to vote in the 2000 election was
commissioned by the Education Fund and conducted by Garin Hart Yang. 

In September, the Maryland League of Conservation Voters released their
2000 legislative scorecard on the Maryland General Assembly, with ten of
27 votes tracked pertaining to sprawl and transportation. Topics include
bills to set transportation performance measures, lower the "farebox
recovery" requirement for transit, and institute "smart codes" for
redevelopment. The scorecard rates the voting records of individual state
legislators on a wide range of conservation and public health issues.

For more information on both these topics, contact Susan Brown, Maryland
League of Conservation Voters at sbrown@mdlcv.org. Full text of the
Education Fund press release on the poll, with a link to the text of the
poll results, is available at http://voteenvironment.org/maryland.html.
For link to scorecard, go to www.mdlcv.org


MARYLAND WINS NATIONAL SMART GROWTH AWARD

Maryland's Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation initiative received
a $100,000 award on October 12 as one of ten winners in the Innovations in
American Government program sponsored by the Ford Foundation and the John
F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Maryland's Smart
Growth program, initiated by Governor Parris N. Glendening and passed by
the 1997 Maryland General Assembly, was cited for its creative use of the
state's $19 billion budget as an incentive to encourage less costly, more
environmentally sensitive, and better-planned growth. The Maryland
program was selected from among 1300 applicants on the criteria that it be
novel, effective, solve a significant problem, and be replicable by other
government entities.

More information available at
www.innovations.harvard.edu/2000-Winners.html, or contact John Frece,
Special Assistant to the Governor for Smart Growth, at
jfrece@dnr.state.md.us. 

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4. A N N E  A R U N D E L  C O U N T Y

COMMISSION EMBRACES ANNAPOLIS TRANSPORTATION BOARD'S VISION

On October 26, members of the Governor's Commission on the Capital City
warmly received a vision for an integrated transportation system serving
downtown Annapolis presented by representatives from the Annapolis
Transportation Board and the Annapolis Department of Planning and Zoning.
The the presentation offered a comprehensive, performance-oriented plan
for accommodating the needs of all people with an interest in getting into
and around downtown Annapolis. One of the plan's goals, for example, is
that commuters to the city arriving by car should be able to get from the
US 50-Rowe Blvd. interchange to a parking space in five minutes, and from
that parking space to their destination in ten minutes, even at rush hour.
The Board's vision is currently being reviewed by various community groups
for possible modifications. Once a consensus vision is reached, it will be
presented to the Annapolis City Council for passage and will be used to
shape future transportation policy decisions in the city. The
Transportation Board developed the vision in response to the uncoordinated
nature of current transportation planning in Annapolis and a recognized
need for better transportation in the area due to the increasing amount of
redevelopment in downtown Annapolis.

The Commission, whose members include representatives from the Governor's
Office, Anne Arundel County, Annapolis, and the Naval Academy, decided to
wholeheartedly endorse the vision and commit to help work towards
achieving its goals.

For more information, contact Andy Chase, Annapolis Transportation Board,
at achase@m-c-inc.com, or Adam Gordon, Baltimore Regional Partnership, at
adam@balto-region-partners.org.


PAROLE COMMITTEE UPDATING TOWN CENTER PLAN

The Parole Growth Management Committee, a group of approximately 25 local
citizens, businesspeople, and developers, has been charged by Anne Arundel
County Executive Janet Owens with revising an earlier 1994 plan for the
Parole area. The 1994 plan called for a walkable town center for the
Parole area near the interchange of US 50 and Riva Road. It also called
for transportation network improvements, improved environmental standards
in the area, and residential development in the currently predominately
commercial core of Parole. Little of the plan has been implemented,
however, due to a failure to take the recommendations of the plan and
implement them through zoning ordinances and county transportation
priority lists. Now, the committee is refining the original plan and
developing suggestions for implementation. Proposals on the table include
zoning for a mix of uses in the town center, an intermodal transportation
center with related public transportation improvements, and a town green
in the town center area. The committee anticipates consideration and
approval of all its proposed improvements by early December.

Meanwhile, the developer of a key piece of property in the Town Center,
Freedman & Company Real Estate, has worked with state and county officials
on new long-range plans for the site. Freedman & Company had been
criticized by local citizens groups and some for proposing a single-story
big-box supercenter on the site in the past. Though the new plan still
accommodates big-box stores, it does so in a general context which is more
in accordance with the objectives of the Parole Growth Management
Committee. The developer's plans include office and residential
development and a site for the intermodal transportation center.

November 3 Sun story on proposed Freedman & Company development available
at
www.sunspot.net/content/archive/story?section=archive&pagename=story&storyid=1150510203651. For more information, contact Adam Gordon, Baltimore
Regional Partnership, at adam@balto-region-partners.org. 

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5. B A L T I M O R E  C I T Y

O'MALLEY REQUESTS STATE FUNDS FOR 'DIGITAL HARBOR'

Building on a theme promoted by advocates of city revitalization and smart
growth, Mayor Martin O'Malley has requested $300 million of state funds
over five years to implement a wide range of projects under the mantle of
a "Digital Harbor." Coined in 1999 by the chair of the Baltimore County
Technology Council and promoted recently by urban developer C. William
Struever, the term most often refers to a series of renovations of old
industrial buildings, such as the finished American Can Company in Canton
and the in-progress Tide Point complex in Locust Point, into high-tech
office space. One somewhat ironic byproduct of this redevelopment has
been that high-tech employees, whose industry would presumably enable them
to live anywhere, have reportedly been choosing, and encouraged by their
employers, to live in urban neighborhoods where they can walk to work.
Smart growth advocates and the new Maryland Department of Planning
Secretary Harriet Tregoning, have seized upon this development as a trend
the state should investigate, promoted, and organized into a "clean air"
transportation measure. As the region struggles to meet federal clean air
standards by 2005, such a return to pedestrian-oriented "town" patterns of
redevelopment in an urban center could be a helpful antidote to the
sprawling, auto-dependent sprawl development of the past five decades.
The group 1000 Friends of Maryland presented the Greater Baltimore
Technology Council and the City of Baltimore with one of its three smart
growth awards at its annual meeting on October 16.

For more information, contact Dan Pontious, Baltimore Regional
Partnership, at danp@balto-region-partners.org, or Dru Schmidt-Perkins,
1000 Friends of Maryland, at dru@friendsofmd.org. November 2 Sun story
available at
www.sunspot.net/content/archive/story?section=archive&pagename=story&storyid=1150510202459. November 5 Sun editorial "Smart Growth comes to Baltimore
City" available at
http://www.sunspot.net/content/archive/story?section=archive&pagename=story&storyid=1150510204155

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6. B A L T I M O R E  C O U N T Y

CONDEMNATION REFERENDUM LOSES BY MORE THAN 2-1

Under opposition from well-organized citizen activists, some local
legislators, and a few statewide nonprofit organizations, Baltimore County
Executive C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger's proposed authority to condemn
properties in Essex-Middle River and the Liberty Road corridor for
revitalization went down to defeat in an election day countywide
referendum, 70 percent to 30 percent. The county executive had presented
the condemnation authority, knows as SB 509 in the 2000 General Assembly,
as crucial to his plans to reinvigorate the Essex-Middle River community,
much of which struggles with crime and disinvestment. Many local leaders,
however, who led the drive to petition the new law to repeal as Question 3
on the November 7 ballot, had balked at what they saw as a government land
grab rammed through the legislature without their prior consultation. In
September, the smart growth group 1000 Friends of Maryland joined Common
Cause/MD and the Maryland Center for Community Development to announce
their opposition to the measure. While 1000 Friends stated it has no
position on condemnation authority generally and strongly supports
revitalization, it chose to oppose Question 3 because of the lack of
public consultation and because revitalization could proceed in a more
community-friendly way without the new powers.

At the September 19 event announcing its position, 1000 Friends also
released a six-point platform for revitalization: 1) Involve the public;
2) Integrate land use and transportation planning to promote pedestrian
and bicycle activity and transit use; 3) Enhance community livibility by
paying attention to open space, schools, and commercial centers; 4)
Integrate the "old" and the "new" -- making the most of existing
residents, businesses, and historic buildings; 5) Fairly share the
benefits and burdens of growth and revitalization -- ensuring a community
mix of housing types and incomes and assistance to displaced low-income
residents; and 6) Integrate local and regional planning goals -- taking
into account local impacts on regional transit systems and traffic
patterns.


For more information, contact Dru Schmidt-Perkins, 1000 Friends of
Maryland, at dru@friendsofmd.org. November 8 Sun story on referendum
available at
http://www.sunspot.net/content/archive/story?section=archive&pagename=story&storyid=1150510206925

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7. H A R F O R D C O U N T Y

CBF OBJECTS TO ABERDEEN WATER PROPOSAL

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) has joined with the Deer Creek
Watershed Association in asking the Maryland Department of the Environment
and the Aberdeen Proving Grounds (APG) to delay the transfer of water and
sewer facilities to the City of Aberdeen until the smart growth
implications of the city's proposed water and sewer service expansion can
be resolved. The city has asked for a county water and sewer plan
amendment to considerably expand its planned water and sewer service
areas, an action the county has rejected as inconsistent with the county
water and sewer plan, comprehensive plan, and designated smart growth
areas. The city's request stems from a pending transfer to the city of
water and sewage treatment facilities presently owned by the Aberdeen
Proving Grounds. The city also intends to assume the rights to the 3.5
million gallons per day water withdrawal appropriation currently allotted
to APG, a withdrawal approximately double the city's present water use.
The land area the city is proposing for new water and sewer service far
exceeds the area the city needs to meet expected growth. The Maryland
Department of the Environment (MDE) is presently considering the city's
water and sewer plan amendment and water appropriation permit application.


CBF's letter points out that existing or planned public water and sewer
service is necessary for land to qualify as part of a smart growth area.
CBF is concerned that an excessive expansion of public water and sewer
service areas would render Harford County's smart growth areas meaningless
and encourage sprawl. 

For more information, contact George Maurer, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, at
gmaurer@savethebay.cbf.org. 


COUNCIL TO DISCUSS BILL ON EDGEWOOD TOWN CENTER ZONING

A bill to create a local "overlay" zoning, or zoning option, that would
implement the already-adopted plan for redevelopment in Edgewood, is
before the Harford County Council and will be discussed at the council's
November 14 meeting. The bill, introduced on October 17, would require
buildings along Marland Route 755 (Edgewood Road) to face directly on the
sidewalk in order to create a walkable main street, allow live-work units
along the main street, create a planned employment center area for new
businesses laid out on a walkable scale, and create areas for small
neighborhood commercial centers throughout Edgewood. The Baltimore
Regional Partnership plans to testify in favor of the legislation,
asserting that this measure is a model smart growth ordinance for the
region, encouraging redevelopment of an existing community into a more
walkable and livable area. The Partnership also believes that the process
leading up to this ordinance is a model for any planning process
throughout the region because of the serious commitment to citizen
involvement throughout the process.

For more information, contact Joan Morrissey Ward, Harford County
Department of Planning and Zoning, at jmward@co.ha.md.us, or Adam Gordon,
Baltimore Regional Partnership, at adam@balto-region-partners.org. The
text of the proposed bill is available online at
www.co.ha.md.us/council/bills/00-56.pdf

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8. H O W A R D  C O U N T Y

COUNCIL AMENDS PROVISIONS ON RT. 32, APPROVES GENERAL PLAN

The Howard County Council voted unanimously on November 6 to change
language in the General Plan regarding a possible widening of Maryland
Route 32 between I-70 and MD 108. The Plan had originally called for
widening the road from a two-lane at-grade thoroughfare to a four lane
access-controlled freeway in order to expand the corridor's capacity and
address safety concerns. However, following a September 18 hearing where
a wide array of citizen groups expressed concerns about the land use and
traffic impacts of widening the road, County Council members Allan
Kittleman and Guy Guzzone drafted an amendment to the Plan. Their
amendment, approved at the November 6 meeting, expresses concerns about
the potential of road widening to increase development and states that,
when addressing safety concerns, measures that other than road widening
should be weighted more highly by the county. 

Eighteen other amendments also passed, including an amendment mandating
creation of a citizens committee to review the plan's progress every two
years, an amendment encouraging study of public transit expansion in the
County, and an amendment to study creation of a new program to fund
preservation of land of high environmental significance. A proposed
amendment by Guzzone to slow growth in western Howard County by 25 units a
year in the early years of the Plan failed on a 3-2 vote. At the
conclusion of the debate on the amendments, the Council unanimously
approved the Plan as amended.

For more information, contact Debbie Izzi, Citizens Alliance for Rural
Preservation, at Izzcool@aol.com, or Adam Gordon, Baltimore Regional
Partnership, at adam@balto-region-partners.org.

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ABOUT THE BALTIMORE REGIONAL PARTNERSHIP AND NEWSLETTER

The Baltimore Regional Partnership is an alliance of five civic,
environmental, and anti-sprawl groups: 1000 Friends of Maryland
(www.friendsofmd.org), Baltimore Urban League (www.bul.org), Chesapeake
Bay Foundation (www.savethebay.cbf.org), Citizens Planning and Housing
Association (www.CPHARegionalCampaign.org), and Environmental Defense
(www.environmentaldefense.org).

This newsletter explores current issues, recent and upcoming events, and
ongoing deliberations that affect the region's quality of life through
transportation, economic development, and land use policy and planning.

We hope to link citizens in the region who are working to fight sprawl,
promote clean and efficient transportation, protect valuable farm and
forest lands, and revitalize urban areas, older suburbs, and historic
towns.

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