SMART GROWTH

Maryland's Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Initiative

GIS photos showing - Development Patterns through - 1900, 1920, 1940, 1960, 1980, 1997

Photo of a Large Development Lot

Photo showing Loss of Farmland

Photo showing Abandoned Neighborhoods

Photo showing Pollution of a Waterway

How have we been growing?
Chicago, Population by just under 50% and Urbanized Areas by close to 0%.
Los Angeles, Population by around 300% and Urbanized Areas by close to 50%
Cleveland, Population by over 25% and Urbanized Areas decreasing by over 5%.

GIS photo showing - Development Patterns 1900-1960, 1961-1997. 
GIS photo showing - Development Patterns 1900-1997.

1997 Passage of Smart Growth Legislation, (photo of committee)
Incentive based not regulatory. 
Smart Growth - Not "no growth" or "slow growth"

GIS picture of Anne Arundel County Priority Funding Areas (PFA) showing:
	- Inner Beltway Area
	- Heritage Area
	- Designated Neighborhood
	- Enterprise Zone
	- Existing Community: Water Service Only
	- Municipality
	- County Certified PFA
	- and Roads

Another GIS Image of Priority Funding Areas (PFA)

Incentives:  Carrots before sticks.
	- Atrium Apartments, showing Baltimore's Westside Renaissance

Neighborhood Business Development Program: Paradiso Italian Restaurant

Job Creation Tax Credit

Live Near Your Work, Picture of a newspaper article titled "Help is for just around the corner, In Maryland, some buyers win grants for staying close to work."

Brownfield cleanup at the Can Company - Before and After Photos.

Urban Parks and Playgrounds

Investing in Older Schools
School Construction Funding in Millions - 
	-FY 1991 (Established construction funding approx. 25 million, New Construction funding around 50 million.)
	-FY 2002 (Established construction funding over 200 million, New Construction funding around 50 million.)

Smart Codes - Rehab, Infill, Mixed Use (Example shown - The Voluntary Cleanup and Brownfields Programs.)

Preserving 
	- Greenbelts
	- Battlefields
	- Farmland
	- Coastal Bays

Status of Rural Legacy Programs After 4 years
- 24 Rural legacy areas designated
- $137 million in RL and POS funds
- 20 counties, 21 land trusts
- 54,000 acres to be protected
= 200,000 acre protection goal in 15 years
- Requests anually exceed resources 3:1

GIS photo of PFA and Rural Legacy Areas

Maryland's Smart Growth Toolbox
The Future of Smart Growth

Evaluating and Assisting Projects (Example shows a "Smart Growth Scorecard"

Photo From Colliers Magazine circa 1955, title "Drive More...it gets cheaper by the mile!"

Photo showing Traffic Congestion.

Photo showing a large highway clover leaf, labeled Costly Infrastructure.

Despite the recent widening of the Baltimore Beltway, gridlock will soon return! To ease congestion, planners are on the Baltimore Beltway 2025.

Thinking Beyond the Pavement

Helping Communities Envision their Future

Increasing Transit Ridership

Supporting Transit
	- The Purple Line (Picture of Proposed System Map)

Transit Oriented Development

Commuter Benefits Act

Smart Growth Test fot Transportation Projects

Manchester Bypass

Brookeville Bypass

Neighborhood Conservation Program

Commercial Area Revitalization

Providing Transportation Choices
	- Bicycling
	- Walkable Communities

Children are Walking Less and More are Becoming Overweight -- Data shown represents that From 1976 to 1995 there was a 6% drop in Children's Trips Made on Foot and From 1974 to 1994 there was a 8% rise is Children who are Overweight.)


Transportation is the Second Largest Household Expense -- Data shows: How Household Use Each Dollar - 14% Food, 10% Insurance and Pensions, 7% Other Household, 7% Utilities, 5% Health Care, 5% Entertainment, 5% Apparel and Services, 2% Education, 8% Miscellaneous, 19% Shelter, and 18% Transportation.


Poor Pay Largest Percentage of Income for Transportation -- Data shows: 
Income from $0 to $11,943 spends 36% of income on transportation
Income from $11,944 to $22,945 spends 27% of income on transportation
Income from $22,946 to $38,204 spends 19% of income on transportation
Income from $38,205 to $60,534 spends 18% of income on transportation
Income from $60,535 and greater spends 14% of income on transportation


Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2002

Marketing Maryland's Quality of Life
Maryland's Future