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Yesterday, the Task Force for Future Growth and Development in Maryland released it’s final report. The task force describes two strikingly different outcomes for development in Maryland over the next thirty years.
Here is what will happen by 2030 if the state keep its current development policies:
That outcome represents “an additional 650,000 acres being converted from rural uses to urban development by 2030. Forests and farms would be replaced by houses and highways stretching from the head of the Chesapeake Bay to southern Maryland.”
Here is what will happen by 2030 if the state adopts smart growth strategies, that focuses growth in areas where development already exists:
Under this scenario “only 150,000 acres being developed – and 500,000 acres of forested and agricultural land being preserved for productive and recreational uses.”
Preserving undeveloped land is also essential for the struggle to restore the Chesapeake Bay.
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