NEWS
By Tim Pula and By Tim Pula | July 1, 2013
Harbor Point, 27 acres of mostly vacant land on the Inner Harbor, is poised for one of the most significant developments in Baltimore's history. After losing 300,000 residents and many businesses during the past 40 years, Baltimore needs to grow its corporate and middle class populations to become more financially stable. Harbor Point alone won't do that, but it can move Baltimore in that direction. Debate has surrounded Harbor Point's proposed use of tax increment financing (TIF)
NEWS
July 27, 1994
By voting to limit developers to recording 50 lots a year per subdivision, the Carroll County Planning Commission has come down on the side of controlling residential growth. While there is no magic in this figure, it halves the number of houses that developers currently can build in each of their subdivisions in a year.It is clear that other types of growth controls, such as building moratoriums and limits on permits, create more inequities thanthis arbitrary limit. Building moratoriums may freeze construction in large areas of the county but have no effect in other areas.
NEWS
November 15, 1995
HAMPSTEAD'S TOWN government is on the verge of enacting legislation that will rein in residential development until adequate public infrastructure is in place. It is a clear-minded response to the development free-for-all of the past decade that has burdened the eastern Carroll County town's roads, water and sewer systems and public schools.Two ordinances are key to Hampstead's program to manage growth. Under Ordinance 269, the town's planning and zoning commission could not grant subdivision approval if any of the public services -- roads, schools, emergency services, recreation and utilities -- are deemed inadequate.
NEWS
August 7, 1994
The following editorial appeared in another edition of The Sun recently:Carroll County* By voting to limit developers to recording 50 lots a year per subdivision, the Carroll County Planning Commission has come down on the side of controlling residential growth. While there is no magic in this figure, it halves the number of houses that developers currently can build in each of their subdivisions in a year.It is clear that other types of growth controls, such as building moratoriums and limits on permits, create more inequities than this arbitrary limit.
NEWS
By WILLIAM PFAFF | April 13, 1992
Paris -- The presidential primaries in the United States, like the election campaign just finished in Britain, have posed an important debate on the role of the state in the economy. For the past 15 years monetarist and supply-side market economic doctrine has dominated economic policy-making in the United States and Britain.If the two countries move now to a more interventionist approach, and increase public infrastructure investment, this can have an important international effect. The other major West European governments and Japan already practice a degree of state economic intervention condemned by Reaganite and Thatcherite theorists and politicians.
EXPLORE
February 8, 2012
A few weeks back in this space, we noted it would be good for Harford County to be allowed to join every other state and county in the republic in levying a room tax on people who travel here to stay overnight in a motel or bed and breakfast inn. It is, after all, a tax we who live in Harford County pay every time we stay overnight in another county. Last week, the county's tourism lobby made it clear, once again, it supports such a tax. The tourism lobby sees such a tax as a way to pay for promoting the county as a tourist destination.