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Md. to spend most of its settlement funds on housing-related efforts
Maryland will direct most of the nearly $60 million it controls from the national mortgage settlement to housing counseling, legal help for homeowners and anti-blight work, state officials said Wednesday. Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler said...Tags: Lawyers, Executive Branch, Foreclosures, Mortgages, Financial and Business Services
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NeighborSpace awarded $1,000 grant at Maryland Land Conservation Conference
NeighborSpace of Baltimore County received a $1,000 grant on Tuesday that will allow it to implement a new system for prioritizing the acquisition of land. The nonprofit, which is dedicated to preserving open space in the county's most populated areas,...Tags: Conservation, Pikesville, Greenbrier, Baltimore County, Catonsville
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New boat launch, athletic fields proposed for Darlington
A new boat launch and athletic fields are scheduled for the Darlington area within the next couple years, according to county parks and recreation officials. Director Arden McClune and Paul Magness of the Harford County Parks and Recreation Department...Tags: Natural Resources
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Land conservation conference looms
Representatives of land trusts and conservation groups are expected to gather May 15 in Columbia for a statewide conference on the challenges of saving land in Maryland. Howard County Executive Ken Ulman is scheduled to keynote the all-day event, which...
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Nonprofit plans to rehab 500 city homes
A North Carolina nonprofit group launched an ambitious affordable housing program Friday to rehabilitate 500 vacant or foreclosed homes in Baltimore near Johns Hopkins Hospital — an area with desolate stretches in the shadow of the world-renowned...Tags: Energy Saving, Hospitals and Clinics, Rentals, Condos and Houses, Real Estate Buyers
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Ground level
What started out as a fairly insightful way to involve communities in Harford County in the long and complex process of devising a comprehensive land use plan, which would be used to set land use and zoning policy, has turned into a bunch of localized...Tags: Conservation, Natural Resources, Havre de Grace
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Senate raids Md. land conservation fund
Unless the House of Delegates reverses a Senate decision, Maryland's legislature will undermine the widely popular effort to create new places for outdoor recreation, as well as efforts to protect Maryland's best farmlands and forests. This decision would...Tags: Conservation, Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Natural Resources
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Harford charter board suggests new planning elements, publication requirements, council term limits
Harford County's land use plan should include a housing element and an agricultural element and all public notices from the county should be posted online in the future, a board reviewing the county charter has concluded. Those are two of the latest, and...Tags: Business, Natural Resources, Newspaper and Magazine, Accounting and Auditing, Government
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Carroll sponsors employee class with biblical overtones
Carroll County commissioners have asked county employees to attend a seminar on the Maryland Constitution led by a conservative Christian minister, sparking accusations that local officials are overstepping the boundary between church and state. David...Tags: Bible, Lawyers, Local Government, Executive Branch, Carroll County (Maryland)
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It's pretty to think so
It's not surprising that changes to the Harford County Charter suggested by a 15-member board appointed to review the county's de facto constitution would contain elements related to residential development policy. The charter review board formally...Tags: Democratic Party, Conservation, Republican Party, Agriculture, Natural Resources
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Land conservation cuts eyed
Lawmakers are looking once again at diverting money used to spare Maryland's dwindling farmland and natural areas from development, environmentalists warn.
The Department of Legislative Services has recommended a 25 percent reduction in the $99.6 million...Tags: Natural Resource Industry, Natural Resources
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Foes, supporters clash over Plan Maryland
To its supporters, Gov. Martin O'Malley's Plan Maryland is a long-overdue effort to bring Maryland's disparate programs to promote Smart Growth under one consolidated plan with an agreed-upon set of rules. To its detractors, the plan is a naked power grab...Tags: Conservation, Lawyers, Regional Authority, Executive Branch, E.J. Pipkin
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