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		<title>On the Frontline of the Septics Battle</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Coleman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rich Josephson, Director of Planning Services for the Maryland Department of Planning, took a ride in the country with Tom Pelton of WYPR 88.1 FM&#8217;s &#8220;The Environment in Focus.&#8221; Rich and Tom went to the  front lines of the battle in the so-called &#8220;War on Rural Maryland,&#8221; dubbed by those opposed to Governor Martin O&#8217;Malley&#8216;s efforts <a href="https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/on-the-frontline-of-the-septics-battle/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=975&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A rural icon inside the Beltway</title>
		<link>https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/a-rural-icon-inside-the-beltway-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ratner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Maryland Historical Trust (MHT) recently announced 14 projects, organizations and individuals to receive the 2012 Maryland Preservation Awards. It is the highest level of recognition for historic preservation and heritage education projects in Maryland. The winners came from all across Maryland. They represented Allegany, Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Carroll, Charles, Dorchester, Frederick, Harford, Kent, Prince <a href="https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/02/14/a-rural-icon-inside-the-beltway-2/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=990&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bike Sharing Comes to Maryland</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>David T. Whitaker, AICP</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Need to get from Federal Hill to Fells Point or Canton &#8212; too far to walk, too much traffic, on Pratt Street, expensive parking &#8212; soon a new option &#8212; bike share. Grab a bike in Federal Hill, drop it off in Canton. And with bike lanes, get there quicker than a car. As Maryland <a href="https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/02/07/bike-sharing-comes-to-maryland/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=942&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Super &#8220;Smart Growth&#8221; Sunday</title>
		<link>https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/super-smart-growth-sunday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:30:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ratner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent article in the New York Times about how the city of Indianapolis secured the right to host Super Bowl XLVI (46) made an interesting point about the &#8220;smart growth&#8221; characteristic of the site of Sunday&#8217;s game: &#8220;The N.F.L. has called this the most urban of all Super Bowls, an interesting description for a city that sprouts <a href="https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/super-smart-growth-sunday/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=915&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A planner, a developer and a land-use advocate walk into a &#8230; study</title>
		<link>https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/a-planner-a-developer-and-a-land-use-advocate-walk-into-a-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 17:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ratner</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Comprehensive Plans]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Center for Smart Growth at the University of Maryland, College Park, issued a report this week that concluded the smart growth framework that Maryland put in place  more than a decade ago has been insufficient and offered suggestions for improvement. &#8220;Barriers to Development Inside Priority Funding Areas: Perspectives of Planners, Developers, and Advocates&#8221; was based <a href="https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/a-planner-a-developer-and-a-land-use-advocate-walk-into-a-study/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=895&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>National Planning Award for Governor O&#8217;Malley</title>
		<link>https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/national-planning-award-for-governor-omalley/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ratner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The American Planning Association today announced its national planning awards for 2012 &#8212; the &#8220;Oscars&#8221; of the planning profession &#8212; and gave Maryland Governor Martin O&#8217;Malley its National Planning Excellence Award for a Planning Advocate. Of the total 14 awards presented by the APA, only 2 went to individuals, Governor O&#8217;Malley being one. Maryland Planning Secretary <a href="https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/01/10/national-planning-award-for-governor-omalley/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=886&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PlanMaryland as a &#8220;Wordle&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/01/05/planmaryland-as-a-wordle/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ratner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The entire PlanMaryland is 116 pages. The executive summary is 16. Here, we&#8217;ve boiled it down to a Wordle (Next: Planning haiku? Probably not.)<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=867&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Game. Plan. Maryland.</title>
		<link>https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/game-plan-maryland/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 18:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ratner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not to be confused with Game/Set/Match, we&#8217;ve developed GamePlanMaryland to help communicate the reason we recently drafted Maryland&#8217;s first long-term plan for sustainable growth. We saw something like GamePlanMaryland developed in Chicago a couple of years ago during the Windy City&#8217;s 100th anniversary of the Burnham Plan, named for its author, the urban planner Daniel Burnham. He is famous <a href="https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2012/01/04/game-plan-maryland/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=848&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What if it&#8217;s a Big Hoax?&#8221;</title>
		<link>https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/what-if-its-a-big-hoax/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 18:21:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Coleman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this cartoon through a colleague at MDP.  It is very relevant to the debate surrounding PlanMaryland.  I think it asks a noble question.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=844&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why I&#8217;m at today&#8217;s forum?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Oct 2011 09:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrew Ratner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Richard E. Hall, Maryland Secretary of Planning Plenty of people have urged me not to attend today’s forum about PlanMaryland sponsored by the Carroll County Commissioners at the Pikesville Hilton. People who concur with us that PlanMaryland is a long-overdue idea, and even some who are less enthused, say the event is one-sided, not a <a href="https://smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/why-im-at-todays-forum/" class="excerpt-more-link">[&#8230;]</a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=smartgrowthmd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=19284273&amp;post=824&amp;subd=smartgrowthmd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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