Maryland Priority Places Initiative

Maryland Governor Ehrlich's Priority Places Strategy is designed to make well-planned development and community revitalization easier to achieve in cities, suburbs and small towns across the state.

After designating promising projects and planning proposals as Priority Places, the state will dedicate all of the resources, regulatory power and expertise of its agencies to helping those projects and plans come to fruition.

This initiative will be supported by the Smart Growth Subcabinet, which is made up of all of the agencies that play a role in land-use and growth decisions. The goal is to support proposals that have the greatest potential to spark broad-based development trends and land-use patterns that are good for the economy, quality of life, and the environment.

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