Representative of Governor's Office: one vacancy
Ex officio: Earl F. (Buddy) Hance, Secretary of Agriculture; T. Eloise Foster, Secretary of Budget & Management; Dominick E. Murray, Secretary of Business & Economic Development; Robert M. Summers, Ph.D., Secretary of the Environment; Alvin C. Collins, Secretary of General Services; Joshua M. Sharfstein, M.D., Secretary of Health & Mental Hygiene; Raymond A. Skinner, Secretary of Housing & Community Development; Carol Anne Gilbert, Assistant Secretary for Neighborhood Revitalization, Dept. of Housing & Community Development; Leonard J. Howie III, Secretary of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation; Joseph P. Gill, Secretary of Natural Resources; James T. Smith, Jr., Secretary of Transportation; Catherine M. Shultz, Esq., Acting Secretary of Higher Education; Abigail R. Hopper, Esq., Director, Maryland Energy Administration; Gerrit J. Knaap, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Center for Smart Growth Research & Education, University of Maryland, College Park.
![[photo, 301 West Preston St., Baltimore, Maryland]](/msa/mdmanual/15dgs/images/1198-1-690.jpg)
Staff: Karen R. Kennedy
c/o Dept. of Planning
301 West Preston St., Baltimore, MD 21201 - 2365
(410) 767-4485
e-mail: karen.kennedy@maryland.gov
301 West Preston St., Baltimore, Maryland, March 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.
Under the Subcabinet is the Smart Growth Coordinating Committee.
Staff: Arabia M. Davis (410) 767-4613; e-mail: arabia.davis@maryland.gov
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). Later, it assumed its present name.
The Committee helps administer programs, projects, and activities in Priority Funding Areas and targeted communities in those areas. In Maryland, areas 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 Committee 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 helps coordinate programs in targeted communities, including sustainable communities.
Subcommittee members are designated by their State agency to relay information about procedures to implement Smart Growth Policy within that agency.
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SMART GROWTH COORDINATING COMMITTEE
Appointed by Agency heads:
Richard Josephson, Chair
Kristen Ahearn; Martha G. (Marty) Baker, Ph.D.; Fiona Burns; Michelle Cable; Elizabeth de Mozenette; Jeffrey Fretwell; Carol Anne Gilbert; David M. Goshorn, Ph.D.; Patricia A. Goucher; Richard G. Higgins; Zoe Johnson; Gerrit J. Knapp, Ph.D.; David G. Lever, D.A.; Clifford S. Mitchell, M.D.; Geoffrey Newman; Sandra S. Olek; John Papagni.
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