Smart Growth Models and Guidelines for Managing Maryland's Growth

Modeling Future Development on the Design Characteristics of Maryland's Traditional Settlements

This generously illustrated publication is intended to facilitate and inform the amendment process permitting hamlet and village zoning, and to support the political, public educational and consensus-building process involved. The overall aim is to propose that future development in Maryland be informed by the State's traditional, historic settlement patterns, and to show how village and hamlet development regulations might be written, based on those patterns. To that purpose, it provides a background of specific data and illustrative material about regional models which can guide the shape and content of such regulations.

Table of Contents:

Foreword

Chapter One: Background

  • The Visions of the Planning Act of 1992
  • Why Village and Hamlet Development Patterns?
  • The Intentions of This Publication
Chapter Two: Urban Design Characteristics of Historic Communities, an Overview
  • Settlement Types
  • Street Character and the Sense of Place
  • Visual Character and Identity
Chapter Three: Seven Maryland Examples
  • Section One: A Hamlet
  • Section Two: Villages
  • Section Three: Towns
  • Section Four: A Metropolitan Suburb
Chapter Four: An Alternative Future for Maryland's Environment
  • Models for Comprehensive Plan Treatment and a TND Zoning Ordinance
  • Comprehensive Plan Model for TND
  • Model Ordinance for TND Zone
  • Alternative Zoning Models for Traditional Neighborhood Design (TND)
Appendix A: Samples from Comprehensive Plans

Appendix B: Sample Zoning Regulations

Credits and Acknowledgments

Published: August 1994