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Funds for the smart growth fund?

In a recent post on Planetizen's Interchange blog, former Maryland Governor Parris Glendening talks about his efforts to utilize the power of state government to promote smart growth. Since leaving office, he has founded and runs the Governors' Institute on Community Design, which works to develop smart growth initiatives on the state level.

This reminded me of a short news item I heard on the radio yesterday: the state's Smart Growth fund is facing insolvency. In the 2004 the state created the "smart growth housing trust fund" to make incentive payments to communities with 40R projects under development. The fund is reportedly almost empty, no provisions to refund it have been made, and there are several projects in the pipeline expecting incentive and per-unit payments. Perhaps Gov. Patrick should call Gov. Glendening for advice?

Posted on Thursday, August 9, 2007 at 10:00AM by Registered CommenterThe Revitalist in , | CommentsPost a Comment | References1 Reference

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