In its national awards, the American Planning Association recently gave its 2010 National Planning Landmark Award to Baltimore County’s “Plan for the Valleys.”

Here’s the award summary from the APA: “In the early 1960s, the Green Spring and Worthington Valleys, a rural region of Baltimore County, Maryland, was facing intense urbanization pressure. The community had the foresight to realize that if uncontrolled, the growth would surely wipe out More