Maryland Sprawl Series: Suburb - Density - City - Village

The Baltimore Sun continues its weeklong series on sprawl and Maryland in an effort to influence the incoming gubernatorial administration.

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December 5, 2002, 1:00 PM PST

By Chris Steins @planetizen

"Right now, more than a million of Maryland's 6 million acres have been developed; roughly a million are preserved in some way. At stake is the remaining 4 million. By 2025, another half million acres of open land will be lost to development, according to the latest state projections, resulting in an almost 50 percent increase in central Maryland's developed land... Growth is inevitable - and welcome. But it raises fundamental questions: Where will these people live? Close together or far apart? Inside the state's two beltways or on its dwindling farmlands? Along expanded mass transit routes or by a growing network of roads?"

Thanks to Harriet Tregoning

FULL STORY: Sprawl: Village

Sunday, December 1, 2002 in The Baltimore Sun

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