**APPENDIX E**

**HOW WE CAN GROW SMARTER**

**LAND COVER CHANGE PROBLEM:**

**REMARKS BY GOVERNOR PARRIS N. GLENDENING** **ON** **SMART GROWTH**

"I would remind you that the theme for this conference is \"Partners for
Smart Growth.\" We all must be partners in this effort if we are to
improve the quality of life for all our citizens and for ourselves. That
is why I am glad to see so many representatives of the home-building and
development community in the audience here today, in many cases sitting
side-by-side with public officials. We must work together. We can no
longer afford to simply say \-- \"Not in my back yard.\" It is time for
community leaders to sit down with builders and talk
[constructively]{.underline} about making designated growth areas. We
must encourage local governments to adopt innovative ways to encourage
sensible growth \-- not to stop growth \--but to nurture it and channel
it in ways that work for both the community and the developer."

"It is time, for example, for local governments everywhere to reevaluate
old-style subdivision regulations to see if they are not, inadvertently,
the cause of many of our problems. Maybe they should reexamine or relax
their setback requirements, or their road width requirements, especially
for redevelopment."

"We are well aware that land development and home-building are
profit-making enterprises. So we need to search for better incentives to
encourage profitable growth and home building in areas where it makes
the most sense to have it. We know that we have to give greater support
to higher density growth, and well-designed mixed-use projects. I, for
one, intend to use the bully pulpit of my office to encourage local
government officials to stand up to the NIMBYS who oppose such
responsible growth when it makes the most sense for the entire
community."

"Finally, it is time for highway builders to sit down with the highway
opponents and talk [constructively]{.underline} about how we can move
our citizens from one place to another in the next century without
destroying our environment. It will do no good to simply stick our heads
in the sand and pretend that our population is not going to grow. Or
that the gridlock we face everyday is going to somehow mysteriously
disappear. It is time to take a fresh look at transit and other
alternatives to the car and a comprehensive review of how our
transportation decisions affect patterns of development. We must meet
our legitimate transportation needs, but we must work together as
partners if we are to do so in an environmentally sensitive way."

"I will conclude by telling you why I feel so passionately about this
issue."

"I know that many of you are parents. I have a teenage son myself. If we
do not take steps to change our growth patterns, the beautiful states
that we all love will be nothing more than a beautiful memory, a memory
that my son Raymond\'s children will never share. In Central Maryland
alone, if current development trends continue, we could use up as much
land for development in the next 25 years as we have used in the entire
history of the State!"

"A coincidence of scheduling is that when I leave here this afternoon, I
will tour and meet with the communities around the old Memorial Stadium
slated for redevelopment. We are at a crossroads in neighborhoods like
these. We can choose several different paths: The status quo, which is
clearly not working; or, our new path \-- the path which will lead to
sensible, smart growth and a healthy environment."

"I am confident that working together, as partners, we can get America
growing smarter."

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