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Land Use Accountability Project : Regions

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  1. November 16, 2009

    Town Bypasses Normal Channels to Aid Major Development

    Talbot County officials weren’t enamored of the town of Trappe’s desire to build a major housing development, so they twice turned down the Eastern Shore hamlet’s efforts to upgrade local sewer and water capacity, in 2004 and 2005. And theoretically, that should have been the end of it. But it wasn’t. Read more

  2. August 05, 2009

    Government Layoffs Spark Debate Over Zoning, Development

    On the surface, the consolidation of planning departments in Worcester County, Maryland, seems a reasonable response to a recession-fueled drop in home sales and new construction. But the timing of the cuts, coming amid a major rewrite of development policies for one of the East Coast’s premier beach-front communities, is drawing suspicion from environmentalists and scrutiny from both the state planning department and the editorial page of the Baltimore Sun. Read more

  3. June 26, 2009

    ‘Smart Growth’ Goals Frustrated By Local Authorities

    In a pasture, along a tree-lined road, a small herd of hefty black-and-white striped “Oreo cows” — more formally known as Belted Galloways — graze near the entrance to a housing development widely regarded as one of the few examples of “smart growth” on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Read more

  4. January 27, 2009

    No Sanctuary From Economic Troubles

    Investment banks and real estate developers aren’t the only ones reeling from the ups and downs of the economy. A dramatic case in point: the National Audubon Society’s 950-acre bird sanctuary on the Chesapeake Bay, which is quite suddenly facing an uncertain future due to its unique financial structure. Society officials say they’re committed to assuring that the spectacular site remains undeveloped, but the troubling bottom line is that they cannot keep the property because the funding needed to maintain it has collapsed. Read more

  5. August 20, 2008

    Eastern Shore Homebuilder Investigated for Storm Water Runoff

    The New Jersey-based homebuilder K. Hovnanian Enterprises is under investigation by the Department of Justice for possible violations of the Clean Water Act. Read more

  6. August 06, 2008

    From Wye Island to Wye Mills: Suburban Maryland Sprawls to the Eastern Shore

    James W. Rouse was an Eastern Shore boy, born and raised in Easton (pop. 14,000), the county seat of rural Talbot County. Read more

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