[CGC] Just Released

[Administrator]

Sorry to send you two e-mails in one day but I thought that you would want 
to know that the just released Summary Report of the "Reality Check Plus" 
Growth Visioning Exercises is available on the CGC website

A statewide analysis of the results of the four regional events specifically 
revealed that Reality Check participants supported:
- Placing more of the state's future growth inside already designated 
Priority Funding Areas and less growth on green field sites than is 
currently forecast by either Baltimore or Washington regional planning
councils or that current zoning would allow;
- Protecting the state's "green infrastructure" more consistently than 
either regional forecasts suggest or current zoning would allow;
- Keeping the same percentage of development inside the Baltimore and 
Washington beltways as is currently there, even while adding significant new 
growth. This would represent a greater share than regional forecasts suggest 
will go there;
- Placing a higher share of households and jobs close to transit stations 
than is currently there and more than is projected to be close to transit by 
the two regional planning councils in Baltimore and Washington;
- A better jobs/housing balance throughout the state, but especially want to 
see more jobs created in Baltimore;
- Efforts to protect water quality by locating future growth in a way that 
would create fewer acres of impervious surfaces when compared with either 
growth forecasts or what would be permissible under existing zoning;