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31 Ways Citizens Can Help Our Economy in Frederick County

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Municipal Growth Element Fact Sheet

County’s Role in the Development of “Municipal Growth Elements”

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Revised New Market Region Plan strikes the right balance

July 4, 2008 by admin  
Filed under New Market

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Revised New Market Plan strikes the right balance

July 4, 2008 by admin  
Filed under New Market, Schools

Originally published July 04, 2008
After 18 months of careful review, the Frederick County Commissioners have adopted a new Comprehensive plan for the New Market Region. This new plan takes aim at the traffic congestion and school overcrowding that brought thousands of voters to the polls in November 2006. The development “pipeline” in New Market [...]

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How many residential units can be built in Linganore before roads fail?

The Revised (December 2007) Traffic Study for the New Market Region concludes that, even if reduced by 1000 residential units, development authorized in the April 2007 Draft Region Plan would result in widespread failure and near failure of critical roadway links throughout the Region.

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How many residential units can be built in Linganore before roads fail?

The Revised (December 2007) Traffic Study for the New Market Region concludes that, even if reduced by 1000 residential units, development authorized in the April 2007 Draft Region Plan would result in widespread failure and near failure of critical roadway links throughout the Region. On December 18th, 2007 FoFC asked the Board of [...]

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Buffering the Linganore Waters for Cleaner Drinking Water

August 1, 2007 by FofFC  
Filed under New Market, Protecting Waterways

On July 10, 2007, the Board of County Commissioners adopted new stream and lake setback standards for the Linganore Watershed Protection Area, which comprises 47,000 acres of land that drain into Lake Linganore, a source of drinking water for Frederick County.

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Once and future plan for New Market

Originally published July 24, 2007 FNP
Consensus has it that the election of the current Board of Frederick County Commissioners was a response to the previous board’s pro-growth decisions and what they spelled for the county in coming years.Two slow-growth candidates from the previous board, John L. Thompson Jr. and Jan Gardner, were joined by like-minded [...]

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County Traffic Studies Underestimate Traffic Volumes

July 20, 2006 by FofFC  
Filed under New Market, Roads

Friends of Frederick County consultant, Reid Ewing, PhD, investigates the degree to which the county accurately assessed the traffic impacts of rezonings and other decisions in the New Market Regional Plan update.  Read assessment here.

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National Audubon Society and Friends of Frederick County oppose rezoning of Smith-Cline Property in New Market

In a June 19, 2006 letter to the Frederick County Planning Commission the Audubon Society of Central Maryland and the Friends of Frederick County oppose development proposed by Rezoning Request # R-06-02 (the New Market Smith-Cline property). The letter includes not only interests by both organizations requesting denial, but also the five profound arguments made [...]

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