A nearly 40-year-old Urban-Rural Demarcation Line reigns in urban growth and successfully promotes infill development in Baltimore County.
"Long before Smart Growth became Maryland policy, Baltimore County officials drew an invisible line through their county to rein in the development that was pushing out from the city. The Urban-Rural Demarcation Line...squeez[es] 90 percent of the county's population in around the Beltway while preserving the farmland and trout streams that have become a rarity elsewhere in the Baltimore region...The limited amount of developable land in the county is forcing developers to think creatively..." A recent project involving water and sewer expansion has brought this issue to the forefront.
Thanks to David Gest
FULL STORY: Outcry reinforces importance of Balto. County growth line
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