Planning is a social endeavor. Public hearings, outreach meetings, charrettes, surveys, and comprehensive plans all seek to engage with and communicate the shared vision of the largest number of stakeholders as possible. Planning, the Department of Natural Resources, and Salisbury University developed the Critical Area Circuit Rider Internship, demonstrating the positive outcomes arising out of collaborations between government and institutions of higher learning ...

The Gold Street Park: Druid Heights-Baltimore Plan integrates a vision for revitalizing a vacant lot in Baltimore's Druid Heights Neighborhood. This park plan, completed by a team of students at the University of Maryland, won the 2016 Sustainable Growth Challenge, alongside the Passport 2 Harford Plan, completed by Harford Community College students. But the plan didn't just win an award and then sit on a shelf ...

Deborah "Deb" Sward serves as Lead Geographic Information Systems Planner for the Projections and State Data Center. Her primary responsibility is preparing and mapping Census data  ...