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Glendening vs. Suburban Sprawl; Governor Banks on `Smart Growth,' but Even Supporters Have Doubts Series: EXAMINING THE RECORD OF THE ADMINISTRATION OF GOV. PARRIS N. GLENDENING Series Number: 2/4
From:
The Washington Post
| Date:
October 6, 1998| Author:
Peter S. Goodman
| Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information
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It may be Maryland Gov. Parris N. Glendening's most ambitious
long-term initiative: "Smart Growth," his plan to slow the advance
of development through suburbia while reinvigorating older, decaying
neighborhoods.
The program has earned the Democratic governor wide praise
from the conservation-minded in his own state and, indeed, across
the country, as more people decry the waves of growth turning fields
into strip malls and rural byways into commuter-choked highways.
Writi...
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