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FoFC Sends Letter to Mayor McClement Expressing Concern about 1269 Acres City Could Annex for Development

In a letter dated June 29, 2010 Friends of Frederick County expresses the need for a cost and impact analysis on three proposals to the city for annexation on Tier 3 of the City’s growth plan:

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FNP: City, county assess growing pains

Frederick city and county officials gathered Wednesday to discuss 30 years into the future: the city’s prospects for development; a north-south road around it; and how to pay any or all of the associated costs.

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URGENT CALL TO ACTION: Write a Letter to Support Environmental Protection in South Frederick County

WRITE A LETTER
in support of an Environmental and Natural Resource Reserve in Southern Frederick County – that will protect agricultural land, fragile sole-source aquifer and area wells and prohibit large scale industrial development in that area.

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**NEW** Frederick Farmers Market downtown Frederick

Frederick Farmers Market

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Let’s do the math (FNP)

Let’s do the math
Originally published June 06, 2010
In his letter to your newspaper on May 23, Thomas Lynch, a principal in the law firm of Miles and Stockbridge, issued a call for “serious, honest and consensus-seeking discussion” about development in our county. We support this call — an informed and respectful exchange is long overdue.

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Effort renewed to de-annex properties

Download the Deannexation Petition for Referendum Here!

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Urbana Farmers Market Open Sundays through October 12-3pm

June 2, 2010 by FofFC  
Filed under For Locavores, Urbana

Live acoustic music, a barbeque vendor and lots of local items – every Sunday

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Citizen Letter to FNP: Winning or losing the growth game

I’ve been following the “conversation” about growth and the comprehensive plan with great interest. There are some in our community who want to make Janice Wiles and Friends of Frederick County the issue. They are not. Growth is the issue. How we choose to grow, and where we choose to grow are the issues.

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06-16-2010 7pm City and County Officials to Discuss Cost 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.

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Why DeAnnex the Crum and COPT/Thatcher Properties?

Download the Deannexation Petition for Charter Amendment Here!

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