This page provides links to various planning-related web sites or sites that provide useful or relevant information to the discussions that are part of this process.  It also provides a link to more information on some of the tools that conference speakers or others have brought up.  (This is not an exhaustive list of all web sites that could contain relevant information.) The links are generally grouped by Pathway topics.

• Smart Growth Priority Funding Areas Act of 1997 (Maryland)
• Congress for New Urbanism (CNU)
• Form-Based Codes:  Implementing Smart Growth (Local Government Commission, California) (3.96 MB)
• Placemakers
• Article:  "Form First" by Peter Katz
• Urban Land Institute's Smart Growth News
• Urban Land Institute Publication -- Higher Density Housing Development:  Myth and Fact (1.13 MB)
• A. Nelessen Associates
• Seattle Post-Intelligencer -- Article:  "Study finds what makes a neighborhood foot-friendly"
• New Urban News
• Article:  "The New Urbanism:  An alternative to modern, automobile-oriented planning and development" by Robert Steuteville, editor and publisher of New Urban News
• Article:  "Merits and Principles of New Urbanism" by Dom Nozzi
• NewUrbanism.org (198 KB)
• EPA: Smart Growth Illustrated
• Getting to Smart Growth II (1.82 MB)

• DNR -- Maryland's Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategy Statewide Implementation Plan
• U.S. EPA Memo by Robert Perciasepe Assistant Administrator -- New Policies for Establishing and Implementing Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)
• MDE -- Maryland's TMDL Implementation Framework
• DNR -- Current and Historical Rare, Threatened, and Endangered Species Of Carroll County, Maryland, as of Dec 13 2007
• Center for Watershed Protection
• Urban Land Institute Publication -- Green Buildings and Sustainable Development:  Making the Business Case (220 KB)
• GreenBiz.com -- Greener Buildings:  Land Use Backgrounder
• Sierra Club -- Building Better:  A Guide to America's Best New Development Projects (1.86 MB)
• Prince George's County MD -- Low-Impact Development Design Strategies (8.40 MB)
• U.S. Green Building Council -- Intro to LEED Green Building Rating System (1.69 MB)
• University of Minnesota -- Minnesota Green Affordable Housing Guide
• California Integrated Waste Management Board -- Green Building Basics
• NRDC -- How much does green building really cost?
• 10,000 Rain Gardens -- Kansas City, Missouri
• Rooftops to Rivers: Green Strategies for Controlling Stormwater and Combined Sewer Overflows
• Designing Traditional Neighborhoods Around Natural Features
• Conservation Design in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (2.28 MB)
• NACO - County Water Quality Issue Brief (843 KB)

Agriculture

• Chesapeake Bay Program -- "Chesapeake Futures:  Choices for the 21st Century"

 Historic

• Maryland Historical Trust -- Search the database by site name, number, city, etc. to find historic sites and structures in Carroll County then view the inventory form.
• Heart of the Civil War Heritage Areas:  Management Plan
• Randall Arendt's Greener Prospects (Products & Downloadable Publications)

Networking Transportation Pathway

• CNU & ITE -- Context Sensitive Solutions in Designing Major Urban Thoroughfares for Walkable Communities (9 MB)
• Complete the Streets
• American Planning Association -- Great Places in America: Streets (Characteristics and Guidelines for Designation)
• Baltimore Metropolitan Council (BMC) -- Transportation Planning
• Albemarle County, VDOT, Thomas Jefferson Planning District Commission -- Transit & Transportation Operation Solutions
• Federal Highway Administration -- A Resident's Guide to Creating Safe & Walkable Communities (3.7 MB)

• Urban Land Institute Publication -- Challenges to Developing Workforce Housing (216 KB)
• Austin, TX -- Green by Design:  7 Steps to Green Building (1.45 MB)
• Austin, TX -- Sustainable Building Sourcebook: Energy: Earth-Sheltered Design
• Santa Cruz, CA -- Accessory Dwelling Unit Program