FNP: Nonprofits object to Frederick County land-use plan rewrite
September 7, 2011 by FofFC
Filed under Changes in Comprehensive Zoning 2011, Frederick, Government Affairs: budget, privatization, land use policies, New Market, Preserving Farms and Open Space, Press and Media, Public Meetings and Workshops, Share your Opinion on Policy, Spread the Word!, Urbana, We Draw the Line: Comprehensive Plan
Express your opinion of PlanMaryland
August 24, 2011 by FofFC
Filed under Growing Smart with Adequate Public Services, Municipal Growth: addressing the hidden costs of sprawl in New Market, Preserving Farms and Open Space, Press and Media, Protecting Waterways, Share your Opinion on Policy, Spread the Word!, Urban Revitalization and Infill, We Draw the Line: Comprehensive Plan
Over the next 20 years, there will be nearly 1,000,000 more people, over 400,000 additional households and over 600,000 new jobs in Maryland.Where will all these people live and work, how will they get to their jobs?
05-20-2011 Gazette online: Frederick County to revisit zoning changes
Rezoning farmland for residential buildings requires that road construction (and maintenance), school space, sewer extension, water provision and emergency services are calculated into the cost of the development. Keep your eyes on the budget – more often than not those costs are underestimated. It is often touted that developers will pay those costs, but they [...]
Jefferson citizens out in numbers to say Food Lion inappropriate for their community
The Jefferson Community wore red shirts and spoke well about the social, economic and environmental impacts of a big box store in their rural community. A Village Center is meant to serve a rural agriculture or rural residential community – and hence the maximum footprint.
03-09-2011 (9:30am Winchester Hall) Planning Commission to discuss land use text ammendments
March 6, 2011 by FofFC
Filed under Protecting Waterways, Public Meetings and Workshops, Share your Opinion on Policy, Spread the Word!, We Draw the Line: Comprehensive Plan
What are the impacts of the revision in these text amendments – to be discussed that the Mar 9 Planning Commission meeting: – adding more, possibly inappropriate, uses in Ag zones; – loosening and removing existing rules for farm remainders, ag lots and ag clusters; – allow public and private schools in ag zones (would [...]
Re-imagining Urban Sprawl (Gazette 08-19-2010)
August 23, 2010 by FofFC
Filed under Frederick, Municipal Growth: addressing the hidden costs of sprawl in New Market, Press and Media, We Draw the Line: Comprehensive Plan
Re-imagining Urban Sprawl
FNP Letter: Balance and perspective called for in land-use decisions
June 13, 2010 by FofFC
Filed under OurCommonWEalth and All Things Sustainable, Share your Opinion on Policy, We Draw the Line: Comprehensive Plan
Originally published June 13, 2010 In his May 23 commentary, Thomas Lynch attempts to cast illusions, build straw men and further polarize growth and development issues — the very things he suggests we rise above.
City and County Officials to Continue Cost Discussions of City’s Twenty Year Growth Plan
06-14-2010 City Hall Mayor McClement asked the City’s Planning Commission to remove the Tier 3 growth area and the North/South parallel road from the Municipal Growth Area map. The Planning Commission denied his request.
Municipal Growth Element Fact Sheet
February 9, 2010 by FofFC
Filed under Brunswick, Burkittsville, Distribution Material, Emmitsburg, Frederick, Growing Smart with Adequate Public Services, Middletown, Mount Airy, Municipal Growth Element, Myersville, New Market, Reading Material, Rosemont, Spread the Word!, Thurmont, Walkersville, We Draw the Line: Comprehensive Plan, Woodsboro
County’s Role in the Development of “Municipal Growth Elements”
Citizens Write Mayor about Failure to Comply with Growth Policy
Mayor Randy McClement City of Frederick 101 North Court Street Frederick, Maryland 21701 Re: The City’s Municipal Growth Element
