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 An Evaluation of the Maryland Critical Area Program December 18, 2003 - Factors in the decline of the Chesapeake Bay’s water quality are directly tied to waterfront development along the Bay shoreline and its tributaries. Maryland's Critical Area Act Of 1984 was created to find the citizenry's best interests between two competing needs--to preserve the environment, and to accommodate development. This report by Saunders C. Hillyer attempts to assess the Critical Area Act's impact and effectiveness nearly two decades later. This report covers those aspects of Maryland's Critical Area program that bear most directly on the density, type of use and location of new development in the Critical. Its analysis of residential development and loss of resource lands focuses on four case study counties: Calvery County, Anne Arundel County, Queen Anne's County and Cecil County. The analysis of use of growth allocation addresses all sixteen counties with land in the state's Critical Area. Download Full Publication Copyright 2002-2009 The Abell Foundation. All Rights Reserved.
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