December 5, 2014
David T. Whitaker, AICP
Planning, Sustainability
electricity resiliency, energy grid, energy resiliency, micro grids, planning, Urban and Regional Planning
From a community infrastructure perspective, everything changed in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Ensuring energy resiliency to power individual buildings as well as entire communities emerged as a pressing local issue.
Community leaders who analyze infrastructure in the wake of major climate events often identify energy availability and the need for resiliency in energy infrastructure as critical in planning for future weather events. Sustainable energy planning is becoming a topic of concern to communities, particularly those areas that have faced severe weather events and loss of power lasting a week or more. Since frequency and severity of storms are projected to increase, an increasing number of local governments are focusing on long-term energy planning to improve energy performance. More
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October 24, 2014
Maryland Department of Planning
Smart Growth, Transportation
#PLCC, Economic development, Montgomery County, public transit, purple line, purple line community compact, purple line corridor coalition, red line, transit, Urban and Regional Planning
By MDP Staff: , Director of Communications; , Director of Smart Growth; and , Communications Intern
National Center for Smart Growth
State and county officials and local advocacy groups are leading an effort to create a livability strategy to ensure that people living and working in the communities along the proposed Purple Line benefit from the new light rail transit system.
But how will that work, exactly?
The stakeholder groups, led by the Purple Line Corridor Coalition (PLCC), will develop a community compact that will lay out strategies for revitalizing and stabilizing mixed-income neighborhoods, preserving community assets, supporting small businesses and connecting workers to jobs, all intended to create healthy and vibrant communities. Similar to Baltimore’s Red Line Community Compact and Minneapolis’ Central Corridor Funders Collaborative in planning their Green Line, the compact will address things like maintaining affordable housing for residents, maximizing labor market potential and creating transit-oriented places. More
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September 18, 2013
David T. Whitaker, AICP
Transportation
Complete Street, transportation, Urban and Regional Planning
Completing Our Streets: The Transition To Safe And Inclusive Transportation Networks, a new book by Barbara McCann – (Island Press, October 14, 2013, ISBN 1610914317)
How to transition to “Complete Streets” is the focus of a new publication by Maryland and DC resident Barbara McCann. This book by the founder and originator of the complete streets movement tells a story of change in how we plan and use the streets within our communities. It offers unique insights, tips, strategies and tools about the process of converting a community’s transportation investments to ensure safe streets for everyone.
From the outset the author places less emphasis on street design, instead focusing on key policies and regulations that underlie transportation decisions from the local to the national levels. She describes the decision making processes inside agencies and offers insight into changing decision making, updating design guidance, providing training and education and finding new ways to measure transportation connectivity and move communities from mono-modalism to viable transportation choices. More
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July 11, 2012
David T. Whitaker, AICP
Bike Ped, Bike trails, Historic Preservation, Land Use, Planning, Smart Growth, Transportation
Colorado, Denver, East Rail Line, FasTrack, LoDo Denver, public transit, Regional Transportation District, smart growth, sustainable communities, Urban and Regional Planning, West Rail Line
Historic Postcard of Colorado State Capitol, Denver, CO
“Build as much as we can, as fast as we can, until it’s all done!”
That’s the mantra of Colorado’s FasTracks program. More
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April 18, 2011
Peter G. Conrad
General, Land Use, Planning
apa, baltimore county, Design with Nature (Wiley Series in Sustainable Design), Geographic information system, ian mcharg, plan for the valleys, Urban and Regional Planning
Reflections on some National American Planning Association conference sessions
On Monday (April 11, 2011) I attended a session that previewed chapters of a forthcoming book titled “Regional Planning in America.” One presentation focused on the contributions of noted landscape architect, Ian McHarg, the author of Design with Nature. McHarg, who also founded the firm Wallace, McHarg, Roberts and Todd, helped usher in a new era of planning by More
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April 1, 2011
John Coleman
Housing, Land Use, Planning, Smart Growth, Transportation
Environment, Maryland, smart growth, Transit Oriented Development, Urban and Regional Planning
Please join Governor Martin O’Malley and other leaders in Smart Growth, Community Revitalization and Transit Oriented Development (TOD) for an important discussion on the future of Community Development in Maryland:
When:
Friday, April 8, 2011
9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. More
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April 1, 2011
John Coleman
Uncategorized
baltimore, Economic development, economic growth, Environment, GrowthPrint, Infrastructure, Maryland, maryland department of planning, Public participation, quality of life, resource protection and planning policy, Rural area, smart growth, state development plan, Sustainable development, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban sprawl
Growth Trends
The total acreage of developed land in Maryland nearly doubled in the past three decades, resulting in large losses of farms and forests. It took three centuries to develop the first 650,000 acres of land in Maryland and a mere 30 years to develop the next 650,000 acres. More
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