Maryland

The Baltimore City Council is pushing forward on a comprehensive plan for the city to create more affordable housing.

The results of a recent statewide growth visioning exercise show a continuing desire to reign in sprawl by focusing development in urban areas along transit lines.

Revision to a Maryland state homebuying assistance program is catching some resistance from smart growth advocates as changed language seems to go against the original anti-sprawl intent.

A Maryland statewide tax that provides communities with funding to improve sewage treatment facilities has been used as an excuse to increase sprawling development.

The suburbs outside Washington D.C. are the richest in the nation -- in part due to the growth in federal spending since 9/11.

The town of Columbia, Maryland, is on the verge of transforming into a full-blown city. Pushing a broad redevelopment plan, officials are trying to ease the transition while some residents resist.

Some of the recent incentives to woo homebuyers in a slowing housing market sound more like automobile ads.

50 acres of woodland are up for sale in Maryland, and while a developer has scoped the land as a good site for 25 homes, local residents are pressuring local and state officials to employ a little-used open space funding program to buy up the land.

Following closely behind Northern Virginia and Washington DC, condo conversions in Baltimore are now halted.

The slow reaction to job growth in many Maryland counties jobs may lead to a critical housing shortage.

With less than 300 residents, the town of Vienna, Maryland, has been grappling with the idea of growth for years. The town's mayor is now supporting a plan that will let the town grow, but not explode.

Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich may be trying to sabotage a controversial proposed transit line in suburban Maryland to hide the fact there may not be any money left for it, according to the former chair of the Metro Advisory Board.

Maryland's eastern shore is trying to cope with new growth spreading out from Washington and Baltimore.

Regional employment forecasts project trends opposing planners' visions, with jobs spiraling outward from the city to the suburbs.

After about a decade of planning and litigation, and another six years of construction, the first part of the first of two spans to replace the old Woodrow Wilson Bridge between Prince George's County, Md. and Alexandria, Va. is open to traffic.

Involving hundreds of stakeholders, a set of four workshops in different parts of the state hopes to create a blueprint for regional growth.

The federal government has granted permission for construction of Maryland's Intercounty Connector (ICC) outside the nation's capitol.

A new study shows that Adequate Public Finance Ordinances (APFOs)in the National Capital Region may counter state's efforts at managing growth effectively.

The Landover Mall, located next to a Capital Beltway interchange in Prince George's County, Maryland, and owned by Lerner Enterprises (a firm that has managed many successful mall centers, including Tysons Corner) has long been considered a blight.

Richard Baron and McCormack Baron Salazar have big plans for a troubled Baltimore neighborhood.