Wye Island Revisited Part Two: Boyd Gibbons on Role of Process
Channel: Community Newspaper Project
Date: 2012-12-12

In the second segment of  Wye Island Revisited, moderator Lynn Scarlett asks Wye Island author Boyd Gibbons what role process (hearings, zoning commissions, governmental oversight) had on the ill-fated James Rouse project in the early 1970s.  She follows by asking what role process has today and is it a useful tool for development and planning.

The Chestertown Spy, in partnership with the Aspen Institute and the Eastern Shore Land Conservancy, hosted the discussion at Aspen's Wye Woods Conference center, to acknowledge the role Rouse's Wye Island concept played in land conservation history, and to compare it now with contemporary issues facing Queen Anne's County and other high population centers in the country.