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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: Labor Legislation, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Energy Saving, Foreclosures, East Baltimore Development Inc.
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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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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: Thomas V. Mike Miller, Conservation, Michael E. Busch, Justice System, Lawyers
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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, Havre de Grace, Natural Resources
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Comment period for Harford master plan over, for now
Even though the November deadline for public comments on Harford County's Master Plan and Land Use Element Plan has passed, residents still will be able to give input on it. That is what Director of Planning and Zoning Pete Gutwald told the Abingdon...Tags: Theft, Walmart, 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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Harford panel calls for reform in school construction decision making, funding
Harford County's $300 million school construction program needs more cooperation and collaboration at the state and county levels, according to a county council commission that spent the past two years studying the program.
Harford County's $300...Tags: Teaching and Learning, Conservation, Local Elections, Budgets and Budgeting, Havre de Grace
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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: Labor Legislation, Local Government, Justice System, Lawyers, Martin O'Malley
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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: Conservation, Republican Party, Agriculture, Democratic Party, Arable Farming
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Harford County's Master Land Use Plan is tedious, but necessary because it shapes the landscape
In the coming weeks, the Harford County Department of Planning and Zoning will unveil the master plan for guiding land use in the county in the coming years. Devising this guide, no doubt, has been tedious, making the county reflect its vision will...Tags: Computer Networking and Internet, File Sharing, 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: Accounting and Auditing, Business, Government, Newspaper and Magazine, Natural Resources
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The house the bay built
Every time it rains, buildings in the Chesapeake Bay watershed contribute to the bay's pollution. The culprit is stormwater runoff. Our impervious, hardscaped environment acts as a funnel for contaminants that speed down the sewer system into streams...Tags: Solar Energy, Wetlands, Alternative Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, Water
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