Now Available! Compatible Use Webinar-Volume 2 Session Recording

Planning in Progress

The Compatible Use Webinar-Volume 2 webinar recording is now available. The Maryland Department of Planning (MDP) organized and conducted the webinar, which is an educational extension of MDP’s Military & Community Compatibility website, in partnership with the Mid Atlantic Planning Collaboration.

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Maryland Department of Planning Publishes the Compatible Use Handbook

Planning in Progress

by Sarah Diehl, AICP, Southern Maryland Regional Planner

Image 1 – Screenshot of Military+Community Compatible Use Handbook cover.

Right before Marylanders settled in for a well-earned Thanksgiving holiday with family and friends, the Maryland Department of Planning (Planning) published the Maryland Military + Community Compatible Use Handbook. Earlier this year, Planning updated Planning Practice Monthly readers about the Compatible Use Website and Handbook User Experience Survey, and introduced the project in 2021.

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Now Open! Take the Compatible Use Website and Handbook User Experience Survey 

Planning in Progress  

by Sarah Diehl, AICP, Compatible Use Community Liaison  

Fig 1 – The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds perform at the Ocean City Air Show in Ocean City, Maryland on June 19, 2021. Photo source: U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. Allen Griffith, https://www.flickr.com/photos/mdng/51279731410/. 

Do you live or work near one of Maryland’s 20 military facilities? Are you interested in the military presence across the state? We want to hear from you! 

The Maryland Department of Planning has created an online survey to learn how community members interact with, seek information about, and envision compatible development between the state’s military installations and surrounding communities now and in the future.  

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Matrix Design Group To Complete Renewable Energy Siting Study

Resources and Tools

As a part of the state’s ongoing effort to enhance collaboration and communication between Maryland’s military installations and surrounding civilian communities to promote compatible use planning and prevent potentially adverse impacts or encroachments, the Maryland Department of Commerce (Commerce) is conducting a Renewable Energy Compatibility Siting project.

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