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Is Maryland In A 'State Of Sprawl'?

Posted by: Chris Steins
Thanks to: Tom Smith
2 May 2005 - 5:00am

Depsite a history of growth management efforts, new Census figures show that Maryland continues to sprawl.

"The latest Census Bureau estimates are in for Maryland, and they add up to a state in which residents continue moving farther and farther away from developed areas -- a state in which sprawl, despite Maryland's history of breakthrough growth-management efforts, continues to gobble up land.

That stretched-out growth pattern chews up land, lengthens commutes, pollutes the Chesapeake Bay and strains local budgets. It creates a state that's a checkerboard of suburbs, a place with too little there there."

Full Story: State of sprawl
Source: The Baltimore Sun, May 1, 2005
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