May 14, 2012

Commission Meeting

The James and Anne Robinson Nature Center
(Auditorium- Lower Level)
6692 Cedar Lane
Columbia, MD

• Meeting Agenda
• 2012 Legislative Wrap-Up
• Adequate Public Facility Ordinance(APFO) Summary Tables
• Indicators Workgroup Final Report, May 2012
• Appendix 1 - Indicators Report, November 2009
• Appendix 1 - Potential SG Indicators Matrix
• Appendix 2 - Indicators Technical Team Matrix, December 2010
• Appendix 2 - Indicators Technical Team Report, December 2010
• Appendix 3 - Beta Indicators and Smarth Growth Principles, September 2011
• Appendix 3 - Beta Indicators Data, September 2011
• Appendix 3 - Indicators Workgroup Status Report, September 2011
• Presentation by Bryce Turner: Urban Smart Growth Perspectives
• Presentation by Rollin Stanley: Urban Smart Growth Perspectives
• Presentation by Greg Bowen: "A Rural Perspective on Smart Growth"
• Presentation by Sandy Coyman: "Rural Observations"
• Presentation by Cambridge Maryland: "Rural Perspectives"

March 26, 2012

Commission Meeting

Dept. of Housing & Community Development
100 Community Place
Crownsville, MD

• MDP’s Jenny King receives Certificate of Appreciation for service to state Commission
• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Summary
• Questionnaire Responses in Format
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Act (GGRA) Plan
• Commission Recommendations to Governor, November 14, 2011
• Indicators Work Group 2012 Work Plan
• WIP Work Group 2012 Work Plan
• Housing Workgroup 2012 Work Plan
• PlanMD Workgroup 2012 Work Plan
• Concentrating Growth Workgroup 2012 Work Plan
• Education Workgroup 2012 Work Plan
• Planning Area Guidelines Revised Draft
• PlanMaryland Guidance Map
• PlanMaryland Assessment Template

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January 30, 2012

Commission Meeting

Dept. of Housing & Community Development
100 Community Place
Crownsville, MD

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Summary
• 2012 Meeting Schedule
• Septics Task Force Final Report
• Barriers To Development Inside Maryland's Priority Funding Areas
• PlanMaryland Planning Area Guidelines - Draft Materials
• National Center for Smart Growth Presentation

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November 14, 2011

Commission Meeting

Career Programs Building
Hagerstown Community College
Hagerstown, MD

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Summary
• Dwayne Yoder’s Regional Host Introduction
• WIP Workgroup Report
• Funding Workgroup Report
• Concentrating Growth Workgroup Report
• Interim Report of the Concentrating Growth Workgroup
• Housing Workgroup Report
• PlanMaryland Workgroup Report
• Septics Task Force Funding Workgroup Progress Report, November 8, 2011
• County Allocation, Septics Task Force Funding Workgroup Recommendation, November 8, 2011

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October 25, 2011

Joint Meeting of the MD Sustainable Growth Commission and the Task Force on Sustainable Growth & Wastewater Disposal

Joint Hearing Room
Legislative Services Building
90 State Circle
Annapolis, MD

• Meeting Summary

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September 26, 2011

Commission Meeting

Public Safety Building
Cambridge, MD

• Meeting Agenda
• Meeting Summary
• Watershed Implementation Plan workgroup report
• Concentrating Growth workgroup report
• Indicators workgroup report
  • Smart Growth Principles & 12 Planning Visions
  • Beta Indicators & Smart Growth Principles
  • Beta Indicators Data
• Education workgroup report
• Housing workgroup report
• PlanMaryland workgroup report
  
  
• City of Cambridge introductory presentation
• Chuck Boyd PlanMaryland Update Briefing presentation
• Joe Tassone Growth Offset Strategy presentation

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September 12, 2011

Joint Meeting of the MD Sustainable Growth Commission and the Task Force on Sustainable Growth & Wastewater Disposal

Joint Hearing Room
Legislative Services Building
90 State Circle
Annapolis, MD

• Meeting Summary

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July 25, 2011

Commission Meeting

Calvert Library
Prince Frederick, MD

• Meeting Summary
• Meeting Agenda
• WIP Workgroup Report
• WIP Workgroup Report on PlanMaryland
• Funding Workgroup Report
• Concentrating Growth Workgroup Report
• Indicators Workgroup Report
• Education Workgroup Report
• Colleges with Planning Courses Degrees
• Education Workgroup Comments on PlanMaryland
• Housing Workgroup Report
• Housing Workgroup Comments on PlanMaryland
• PlanMaryland Workgroup Report
• MDP_PlanMaryland Progress Report
• Presentation by Greg Bowen – "How Are We Doing? Smart Growth, Smart Sites and Growth Management in Calvert County"
• Interim Report of the Funding Work Group, by Rollin Stanley

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May 16, 2011

Commission Meeting

Bel Air Armory
Bel Air, MD

• Meeting Summary
• Meeting Agenda
• Presentation: PlanMaryland - Statewide Plan for Smart and Sustainable Growth, Resource Conservation, & Quality of Life

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March 28, 2011

Commission Meeting

Banneker- Douglass Museum
84 Franklin Street, Annapolis, MD

• Meeting Summary
• Meeting Agenda
• PlanMaryland - Getting state agencies, local governments and the private sector on the same page
• PlanMaryland - Progress Toward the Draft Plan, presented by Richard Josephson, Director of Planning Services for MDP

Press Release - Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission to Hold Bi-Monthly Meeting

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March 1, 2011

Hearing and Briefing

Banneker- Douglass Museum
84 Franklin Street, Annapolis, MD

• Meeting Summary
• Summary of the Sustainable Growthand Agricultural Preservation Act of 2011
• Senate Bill 846       House Bill 1107
• Senate Bill 160       House Bill 177

Press Release - Maryland Sustainable Growth Commission Holds Hearing and Briefing

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January 24, 2011

Commission Meeting

Banneker- Douglass Museum
84 Franklin Street, Annapolis, MD

• Meeting Summary
• Meeting Agenda
• November 2009 Letter from Jon Laria to General Assembly Committee Chairs
• Indicators Workgroup Final Report
• Final Indicators Matrix
• Presentation by Gerrit Knaap, Ph.D., National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education: Indicators of Smart Growth in Maryland
• UMD National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education Indicators Report
• "Why smart growth falls short" Op-Ed by Gerrit Knaap, Baltimore Sun, 01/06/11
• State making little progress with Smart Growth, Baltimore Sun article, 01/06/11
• Farm Bureau objects to EPA process, not Chesapeake cleanup, by Pat Langenfelder, Baltimore Sun, 01/18/11
• Presentation - Tax-Increment Financing, Partners for Economic Solutions

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December 13, 2010

Commission Meeting

Governor's Reception Room
State House, Annapolis.

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November 4, 2010

Growth Commission Field Trip

The growth commission took a smart growth tour featuring: neighborhood revitalization, transit-oriented development, agricultural preservation, county-municipal cooperation, affordable housing and water quality and supply.

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October 25, 2010

Commission Meeting

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