From Healthy Harford:
The Harford County Government’s Department of Planning and Zoning (PNZ) is beginning the process of rewriting and consolidating all of their land use plans into one document called Harford NEXT and is looking for public input. Last time PNZ rewrote their land use plans, Healthy Harford partners were excited that health was even mentioned as a planning issue. In the new Harford NEXT plan, the idea of utilizing Planning and Zoning to create a healthy community is front and center. Harford NEXT talks about issues such as access to healthy foods, reducing “vehicle miles traveled” by making it safer to walk/bike, and improving connectivity (i.e. making it easier to walk/bike/take pubic transit to stores, groceries, libraries, schools, etc.).
Planning and Zoning is looking for public input on this plan via an Open House comment session – Wednesday, April 29th from 6-8 at Harford Community College, Chesapeake dining room. We urge you to attend this meeting and show your support for the healthy community initiatives. If are unable to attend, please comment on their public input website – see link below
As a note, this meeting is not the forum to discuss or complain about specific zoning issues from the past or present (Walmart, EvaMar, etc.) but a key meeting to express the kind of community we would like to create going forward – safe bike routes connecting downtown Bel Air to the College, a more walkable/bikable community, slower traffic in certain areas, better pedestrian crossings, improved access to healthy foods, etc. Even if you are only able to attend for a few minutes, your opinion will be registered. If you aren’t able to attend that night, please go on their website and enter a comment. http://www.harfordcountymd.gov/PlanningZoning/index.cfm?ID=4053
Orton Brown says
Simply Socialism.
The article states, “Harford NEXT talks about issues such as access to healthy foods, reducing “vehicle miles traveled” by making it safer to walk/bike, and improving connectivity (i.e. making it easier to walk/bike/take pubic transit to stores, groceries, libraries, schools, etc.).”
Folks this is nothing more then United Nations Agenda 21.
A base tenet of Agenda 21 is that Americans use too much of the world’s resources, with our selfish use of cars, and that ultimately we all need to be pushed to planned communities and public transportation to save the world.
Why do you think the Maryland General Assembly keeps flirting with a Vehicle Mileage Tax? It’s to reduce our usage.
This article could be have been comfortably posted in San Francisco or Seattle. It is the vision for what the socialists and radical environmentalists all believe American society should look like, all couched in nice terms.
It all started with the Office of Sustainability created by David Craig, and his making us a dues paying member of ICLEI, the American arm of Agenda 21. It now continues with our new so-called Republican Administration.
Come on Barry, say it, just like David, you agree with Agenda 21. If you won’t say it, your actions are proving it.
Mr. Moderate says
Are you sure it’s not the TRILATERAL COMMISSION at work? The John Birch Society.to the rescue!