Land Use Planning
- Maryland Dept of Planning Publications, a broad collection of reports, models and guidelines concerning future growth and development in Maryland.
- Cost of Community Services, Harford County, MD, published by Harford Land Trust, Jan 2004
- Guide to Stopping Bad Development, published by 1000 Friends of Maryland, 2002
- Planning for Sprawl?, published by Baltimore Regional Partnership, 2001
- Models and guidelines for Smart Growth planning, multiple documents published by the Smart Growth Network
- How To Win Land Development Issues,, published by Community & Environmental Defense Services, rev. 2007
- Recommended Model Development Principles for Harford County, MD, aka "Builders for the Bay", May 2003
- Paying the Costs of Sprawl: Using Fair-Share Costing to Control Sprawl, Ken Snyder and Lori Bird, December 1998.
- Agriculture Viability Task Force, Final Report, presented to Harford County Council, Jan 15, 2008
- Shifting Ground American cities, towns, and rural areas are suffering growing pains. The symptoms are obvious. The remedies are not. Shifting Ground is a public radio series that examines the difficult choices confronting communities as they cope with change and try to shape a better future.
- Smart Growth in Maryland. This paper by Gerrit Knaap and John Frece of the National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, provides an in-depth look at Maryland's smart growth programs and suggests key areas where the laws could be strengthened.
Transfer of Development Rights (TDR)
- The Feasibility of Successful TDR Programs for the Eastern Shore of Maryland, published by the Maryland Center for Agro-Ecology, Inc., January 2007
- An Analysis of Social Equity Issues in the Montgomery County (MD) Transfer of Development Rights Program, James R. Cohen and Ilana Preuss, September 2002
- Making Markets for Development Rights Work: What Determines Demand?, Elizabeth Kopits, Virginia McConnell, and Margaret Walls, Oct 2005
- Zoning, Transferable Development Rights, and the Density of Development, Virginia McConnell, Margaret Walls, and Elizabeth Kopits, Feb 2006
Maps
- Maryland GreenPrint. Information about protected lands in Maryland. Look at the interactive map if you have faster than dial-up Internet connection: Aerial view crossed with property boundary information. GOOD FOR A LOT OF VISUALIZATION!
- Priority Funding Areas. This is an on-line interactive map. It is useful once you get used to it.
- Agricultural Preservation Program
- Historic Preservation Program
- Major Subdivision Activity in the Development Envelope
- Harford County Land Use Map
- Watershed Profiles for the Upper Western Shore Tributary Basin
Transportation and Other
- The Data Page Your Best Source for Current Demographic Information about the County and its Subdivisions.
- A Better Way to Go: Meeting America’s 21st Century Transportation Challenges with Modern Public Transit, Phineas Baxandall, Ph.D. Tony Dutzik and Joshua Hoen, Maryland PIRG Foundation, March 2008.
- Paving the Way: How Highway Construction Has Contributed to Sprawl in Maryland, Brad Heavner, MaryPIRG Foundation, November 2000
- Dangerous By Design, Solving the Epidemic of Preventable Pedestrian Deaths (and Making Great Neighborhoods), published by 1000 Friends of Maryland, undated (approx 2009).
- Yellow School Bus Blues, published by Transportation for America, October 2007.
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