[CPEO-IRF] BRAC and sprawl in Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

BRAC planning group proposed
Panel, to be headed by Lt. Gov. Brown, would fight sprawl

By Larry Carson
Baltimore Sun
February 16, 2007

Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown said yesterday that the state will not try to 
speed up suburban development to provide homes for the estimated 28,000 
families expected to move to Maryland because of the realignment of 
federal military bases.

Instead, he said, the state will use a proposed high-level planning 
group that he will head to chart a course to accommodate the growth 
without encouraging suburban sprawl.

If the General Assembly approves creation by the O'Malley administration 
of a sub-Cabinet to coordinate planning for the Base Realignment and 
Closing process through 2011, the group intends to have a detailed plan 
worked out by the middle of fall, Brown told members of the House 
Economic Matters Committee at a hearing yesterday.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.brac16feb16,0,6522766.story?coll=bal-mdpolitics-headlines

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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