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Urging A Plan for Growth
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"If the state continues the way it is going, you are going to continue to allow the development of farmland. That's senseless," he said.
Laurel is in the throes of several redevelopment plans aimed at accommodating growth in the area, where about 22,000 jobs are expected to be created at or near Fort Meade.
"We are trying to grow from within," Brendle said.
In exchange for development rights, the city insists that developers contribute to public transit and other amenities, including "people places" that residents can walk to, he said. The city also urges developers to set up their own bus networks that feed into the MARC commuter rail service and intercounty bus services.
John Kortecamp, an official with the 1,200-member Home Builders Association of Maryland, said he's optimistic a state plan is viable.
"Maryland is a state with a very strong tradition of local control," he said. "It would be difficult to do anything to run counter to that, and probably not advisable."
Kortecamp said his organization is interested to see the results. "In concept, as long as you have a state policy that is supposed to guide growth, it helps to have some architecture that helps articulate what path that should take."
