SMART GROWTH SUBCABINET

Chair: Vacancy, Special Secretary of Smart Growth
Vice-Chair: Richard E. Hall, Secretary of Planning

Representative of Governor's Office: one vacancy

Ex officio: Earl F. (Buddy) Hance, Secretary of Agriculture; T. Eloise Foster, Secretary of Budget & Management; Christian S. Johansson, 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; Alexander M. Sanchez, Secretary of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation; John R. Griffin, Secretary of Natural Resources; Beverley K. Swaim-Staley, Secretary of Transportation; Elisabeth A. Sachs, Interim Secretary of Higher Education; Malcolm D. Woolf, Director, Maryland Energy Administration; Gerrit J. Knaap, Ph.D., Executive Director, National Center for Smart Growth Research & Education, University of Maryland, College Park.

Staff: Shannon N. Marino

[photo, 301 West Preston St., Baltimore, Maryland]

c/o Dept. of Planning
301 West Preston St., Baltimore, MD 21201 - 2365
(410) 767-4485
e-mail: smarino@mdp.state.md.us

301 West Preston St., Baltimore, Maryland, March 2004. Photo by Diane F. Evartt.

The Smart Growth Subcabinet began as the Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Subcabinet established by the Governor in January 1998 (Executive Order 01.01.1998.04). It was reformed by statute effective July 1, 2001 (Chapter 566, Acts of 2001; Code State Government Article, sec. 9-1406). The Subcabinet helps implement Smart Growth Policy, recommending to the Governor changes in State law, regulations, and procedures needed to support the Policy (Chapter 759, Acts of 1997). Since 2003, the Subcabinet also oversees the Priority Places Strategy (Executive Order 01.01.2003.33). Further, the Subcabinet works to create, enhance, support, and revitalize sustainable communities across Maryland (Chapter 487, Acts of 2010).

Under the Subcabinet is the Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Coordinating Subcommittee.

SMART GROWTH COORDINATING COMMITTEE
Appointed by Agency heads:
David A. Costello, Chair
Martha G. (Marty) Baker, Ph.D.; Hilary Bell; Peter Conrad; Arabia M. Davis; Elizabeth de Mozenette; Carol Anne Gilbert; David M. Goshorn, Ph.D.; Patricia A. Goucher; Zoe Johnson; Richard Josephson; Brigid E. Kenney; David G. Lever, D.A.; Joel McCrea; Dominick E. Murray; Sandra S. Olek; John Papagni; Matthew J. Power; Andrew Ratner; Carol West.

Staff: John Sheff (410) 260-3873; e-mail: jsheff@gov.state.md.us

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 compiled a list of existing programs, projects, and activities to be used in Priority Funding Areas and determining how to use such programs for targeted communities in Priority Funding Areas. Areas in Maryland 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 assists the Revitalization Center to coordinate programs in targeted 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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