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827 West
Washington Street
Hagerstown,
MD 21740
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Office:
301.739.0135
Cell: 301.991.1123
Email: h.builders@myactv.net |
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Issues Information Links This page supplies
information on timely issues affecting the building industry. To suggest a
link for this page, please use the link to the left to email us. Please
include the topic and link in your email.
| Development Capacity Task Force (State
of Maryland Department of Planning) |
| To read the Final Report of the Development
Capacity Task Force (State of Maryland, Department of Planning-July 2004)
please
click here to be taken to the Maryland Department of Planning
website page housing the report.. This document is 194 pages in length and is
in PDF format and may take some time to load. Of particular interest is the
data on Hagerstown which I have removed from the report and put in a separate
file that can be viewed alone
by
clicking here. |
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Comprehensive Market Analysis
Report– Analysis of the Hagerstown-Maryland, Martinsburg-West
Virginia Housing Market |
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To read the The U.S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development’s Comprehensive Market Analysis
Report– Analysis of the Hagerstown-Maryland, Martinsburg-West
Virginia Housing Market dated April 1, 2004
please click here. |
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| Median Priced Dwelling Units (MPDU)/Inclusionary Zoning |
| As required in the 2005 Excise Tax Bill passed by the Maryland State
Legislature and as part of one of the BOCC 2005 goals, the BOCC is in the
process of appointing a Task Force to explore the lack of Workforce Housing
in the County, to include the recommendation of programs to address this
lack of housing. Montgomery County has the longest running MPDU
program in the state. Recently Montgomery County formed a task force
to review the program and to make recommendations as to how well the program
is working, and how it should be changed. A public hearing was held on
these changes and the resulting changes are set to be adopted. To read
the program that will be adopted
please click here.
To read a program overview with links to additional information
on the MOCO program
please click here.
To read a narrative of the program from the Innovative Housing
Institute in Montgomery County
please
click here. For an
overview of how inclusionary zoning works and how it is being used in other
states please visit the website of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition
by clicking here.
To read the article, Inclusionary Zoning: The Developer's
Perspective,
please click here.
To read an excellent article written by David Rusk of the Gamaliel
Foundation an Organizing Institute entitled: "Inclusionary Zoning, Living
and Learning Together," including how such programs should work and what to
consider prior to their adoption,
please click here.
A second article, "Inclusionary Zoning: the Door to
Opportunity-Based Housing can be accessed
by clicking here.
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