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		<title>Governor O’Malley Signs Sustainable Communities Financing Bill Into Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 14:51:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Coleman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[2013 tax increment financing law enhances authority for local government funding for community revitalization and economic development Press Release: Thursday, May 16, 2013; 10:30 a.m. BALTIMORE, MD – Governor Martin O’Malley today signed into law a bill passed by the Maryland General Assembly that expands municipalities’ and counties’ authority to finance costs for infrastructure improvements <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/05/16/governor-omalley-signs-sustainable-communities-financing-bill-into-law/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1970&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sailor-Planner Writes About War&#8230; of 1812</title>
		<link>http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/sailor-planner-writes-about-war-of-1812/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 08:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Allan, AICP</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Concord Point Light]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Havre de Grace]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Havre de Grace’s Bicentennial Bash Appears in the May 2013 edition of SpinSheet magazine Like tall ships? Battle reenactments? Outdoor orchestras? Fireworks on the water? How about the idea of a whole town letting loose in celebration of two centuries of pent-up pride in staving off the world’s most powerful navy? Then why not take an early season cruise up north this year? North <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/05/13/sailor-planner-writes-about-war-of-1812/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1953&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spoke Shops Signal Smart Growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 May 2013 17:36:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David T. Whitaker, AICP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Return of Neighborhood Bicycle Shops: A Sustainable Community Indicator “The communities that embrace the bicycle and all that goes with it NOW will be the successful communities of the next generation.” &#8211;Alex Obriecht, President Bike Maryland &#38; Race Pace Bicycles Did you buy that bicycle at the hardware store? This was quite likely several <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/spoke-shops-signal-smart-growth/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1900&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Another way to live</title>
		<link>http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/another-way-to-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 18:34:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Sigworth, AICP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I am one of “those” people. Who am I you may ask. I am a completely car-free urban planner. No, I am not crazy and I am not a “tree hugger.” I do, however, believe in smart growth, walkable communities and mixed uses. In my line of work I am not alone in these <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/another-way-to-live/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1776&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>ICYMI: We all benefit from transit, and we should all pay for it (Baltimore Sun Editorial, 03/27/2013)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2013 18:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Coleman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In case you missed it, we wanted to share this Baltimore Sun editorial, Higher gas tax needed to support transit, on the importance of supporting an efficient transit system.   KEY POINT– To suggest that spending on public transit is inherently wasteful is not only unfair but inaccurate. Maryland traffic congestion is already ranked among the <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/icymi-we-all-benefit-from-transit-and-we-should-all-pay-for-it-baltimore-sun-editorial-03272013/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1869&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is There Life After Malls?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Mar 2013 18:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David T. Whitaker, AICP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(co-authored by John Coleman) The enclosed suburban shopping mall came to symbolize the height of middle class American culture from the 1960’s through the 1980’s. The ubiquitous shopping mall was a retail model that wooed stores away from downtowns and main street shopping areas. The enclosed mall became the location for retail, socializing, cinema and <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/25/is-there-life-after-malls/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1789&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Rendering of the &#34;Gateway Plaza&#34; entrance to the planned mixed-use re-visioning of White Flint mall.</media:title>
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		<title>An Accolade for a Frederick County Sidewalk</title>
		<link>http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/accoladeforfrederickcountysidewalk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:03:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David T. Whitaker, AICP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[New sidewalk would protect Monocacy Middle, Frederick News-Post (March 19, 2013) The article above describes a project near a Frederick County public school that exemplifies quality planning. In this instance, a local school facility planing director decided to make a difference in order to help middle school students safely travel to and from school.   <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/20/accoladeforfrederickcountysidewalk/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1752&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Baltimore City grew by 1,100 residents in the last year</title>
		<link>http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/baltimore-city-grew-by-1100-residents-in-the-last-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 15:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Coleman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland State Data Center has posted the U.S. Census Bureau&#8216;s 2012 Population Estimates for Maryland&#8217;s Jurisdictions, the annual release of estimates for the 23 counties and Baltimore City. The Baltimore Sun reported on the increase in population for Baltimore City in &#8220;Baltimore&#8217;s population up, following decades of loss&#8221; (March 14, 2013). Related articles Baltimore population increases <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/14/baltimore-city-grew-by-1100-residents-in-the-last-year/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1741&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>MD Planning Secretary Hall’s Letter to Sun Editor Clarifies the Facts About Septic Law</title>
		<link>http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/md-planning-secretary-halls-letter-to-sun-editor-clarifies-the-facts-about-septic-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Coleman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Published in the Baltimore Sun&#8216;s Readers Respond, March 11, 2013, titled &#8220;Clean water requires everyone&#8217;s help&#8220; I am writing in response to Sen. E.J. Pipkin&#8216;s letter to the editor in which he called me the state&#8217;s land planning czar (&#8220;O&#8217;Malley is waging war on rural Maryland,&#8221; Feb. 26). The senator may think such name-calling and <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/md-planning-secretary-halls-letter-to-sun-editor-clarifies-the-facts-about-septic-law/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1735&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Reclaim the Chesapeake Bay&#8221; Public Awareness Campaign</title>
		<link>http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/reclaim-the-chesapeake-bay-public-awareness-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 21:55:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Coleman</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of us who live in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are linked to the Bay by many pathways. Whether we live right on the water or miles from the Chesapeake, our actions have a profound effect on the Bay. Maryland has made great progress in working toward restoring the Chesapeake Bay to its former glory. <a href="http://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2013/02/27/reclaim-the-chesapeake-bay-public-awareness-campaign/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&#038;blog=19284273&#038;post=1720&#038;subd=smartgrowthmd&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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