SMART GROWTH SUBCABINET

[photo, 301 West Preston St., Baltimore, Maryland]

Chair: Vacancy, Special Secretary of Smart Growth
Vice-Chair: Richard E. Hall, Secretary of Planning

Representative of Governor's Office: one vacancy

Ex officio: Roger L. Richardson, Secretary of Agriculture; T. Eloise Foster, Secretary of Budget & Management; David W. Edgerley, Secretary of Business & Economic Development; Shari T. Wilson, Secretary of the Environment; Alvin C. Collins, Secretary of General Services; Raymond A. Skinner, Secretary of Housing & Community Development; Brian P. McLaughlin, Assistant Secretary for Neighborhood Revitalization, Dept. of Housing & Community Development; John R. Griffin, Secretary of Natural Resources; John D. Porcari, Secretary of Transportation; James E. Lyons, Sr., Ph.D., Secretary of Higher Education; Gerrit J. Knaap, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Center for Smart Growth Research & Education, University of Maryland, College Park.

301 West Preston St., Baltimore, Maryland, March 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

Staff: Patricia A. Goucher

c/o Dept. of Planning
301 West Preston St., Baltimore, MD 21201 - 2365
(410) 767-4620
e-mail: pgoucher@gov.state.md.us
web: www.priorityplaces.com/subcab.htm

The Smart Growth Subcabinet began as the Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Subcabinet established by the Governor in January 1998 (Executive Order 01.01.1998.04). It was reformed by statute effective July 1, 2001 (Chapter 566, Acts of 2001; Code State Government Article, sec. 9-1406). The Subcabinet helps implement Smart Growth Policy, recommending to the Governor changes in State law, regulations, and procedures needed to support the Policy (Chapter 759, Acts of 1997). Since 2003, the Subcabinet also oversees the Priority Places Strategy (Executive Order 01.01.2003.33).

Under the Subcabinet is the Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Coordinating Subcommittee.

SMART GROWTH & NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION COORDINATING SUBCOMMITTEE
Appointed by Agency heads:
Florence E. (Betsy) Burian, Chair
James A. Conrad, Ph.D.; Teresa A. Garraty; Patricia A. Goucher; Donald Halligan; Gerard Krebs; Dorothy Morrison; Sandra S. Olek; John Papagni; Frederick E. (Ted) Porter; Shelley S. Wasserman; three vacancies.

To help the Smart Growth Subcabinet implement Smart Growth Policy, the Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Coordinating Subcommittee was created by the Governor in January 1998 (Executive Order 01.01.1998.04). The Subcommittee is compiling a list of existing programs, projects, and activities to be used in Priority Funding Areas and determining how to use such programs for targeted communities in Priority Funding Areas. Areas in Maryland where local and State governments want to encourage development and growth and which meet certain criteria for water and sewage systems, population density, and land use capabilities may qualify as Priority Funding Areas. Such places include existing municipalities; land within the Washington, DC Beltway (I-495) and the Baltimore Beltway (I-695); and areas already designated as enterprise zones, neighborhood revitalization areas, heritage areas, or industrial land.

As required by law, the Subcommittee reviews projects funded as special exceptions (i.e., not in a Priority Funding Area), or those with extraordinary circumstances, and reports to the Subcabinet on projects needing approval from the Board of Public Works. The Subcommittee also recommends to the Subcabinet changes in State law, regulation, or procedure needed to implement Smart Growth Policy and assists the Revitalization Center to coordinate programs in targeted communities.

Subcommittee members are designated by their State agency to relay information about procedures to implement Smart Growth Policy within that agency.

DEFUNCT UNITS

SMART GROWTH & NEIGHBORHOOD CONSERVATION SUBCABINET
Reorganized July 1, 2001, as Smart Growth Cabinet (Chapter 566, Acts of 2001).

TRANSPORTATION SOLUTIONS GROUP
Appointed by Smart Growth & Neighborhood Conservation Coordination Subcommittee:
Thomas Deen, Chair
Barry Campbell; James Clarke; Robert Dunphy; William M. Eichbaum; Maryann P. Feldmann; Francis B. (Frank) Francois; Roy W. Kienitz; Pamela Tyler Lindstrom; William Millar; Kenneth Orski; Alan Pisarski; Walter Townshend; Franklin White.

The Transportation Solutions Group was formed in April 1998 by the Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Subcabinet. The Group developed an action plan for the long-term transportation needs of the Montgomery County and Prince George's County region which was submitted to the Governor on July 15, 1999. The Group last met in the summer of 1999.

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