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Audio & video reports in Charles County, Maryland  

Posted 5/5/11

Is it just rhetoric,

or is it really the end of

sprawl development in Charles County?

Experts provided public backing for switching Charles County to Smart Growth at an April 28th Land-Use Marketplace Forum hosted by the county government.

Stewart Schwartz, Executive Director of the Coalition for Smarter Growth: "Usually when you run these scenarios about the future of growth in a jurisdiction, most people will end up agreeing that a Smart Growth scenario is going to work best."

WATCH MORE VIDEOS FROM THE

APRIL 28th MARKETPLACE FORUM

WATCH a video of Dr. Stephen Fuller, George Mason University: "People now understand that this county is different than the other counties in the Washington Metropolitan area."

 

WATCH a video of Linda Redding, small business owner and resident of Nanjemoy: "When forests go down, certain people get profit from that and most of us subsidize that development by paying higher taxes."

WATCH a video of Harry Sasho, commercial real estate broker and resident of La Plata: "When I did the comprehensive plan many, many years ago, it was a small committee with a little bit of input; now, we're getting input from everybody and I think that's very, very important."

WATCH a video of Bonnie Bick, Southern Maryland area Sierra Club: "We need to make Waldorf a better place to live and work."

WATCH a video of Chip Bowling, Owner of Bowling Agri Service, Newburg: "The forum, I thought, was great. Any time you can get in front of a group and have your opinions be known, that's a good thing."

WATCH a video of Kevin Grimes, environmentalist and resident of Nanjemoy: In response to a forum participant who argued that the county needs more waterfront development, Mr. Grimes said: "If you want to get your boat in the water, there's plenty of places in the county you can go. I think there's plenty of access points to the water. I think we need to do a better job of taking care of the water so when people do access the water, they can have healthy fish to eat and clean water to get into to swim around."

Dr. Christine Conn, Maryland Department of Natural Resources: "There's a wide body of support within DNR that are concerned about what's happening in Charles County and want to be able to provide the county with the information it needs to make the choices it needs to make."