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The Maryland Department of Transportation (MDOT), in
cooperation with the Port Land Use Development Advisory Council
(PLUDAC), has completed the Port Land Use
Maritime Industrial Retention and Growth
Management Strategy (MIRGMS),
which defines a
vision for future land development within the immediate influence
of Maryland’s Port of Baltimore. Strategies are recommended to
achieve land use, economic development, transportation, and
environmental goals and to retain and support the growth of
maritime and related industries. Having completed its work, the
PLUDAC was dissolved in September 2005.
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MIRGMS Part 1
MIRGMS Part 2 |
Background
Chapter
414 of the 1998 Laws of Maryland
established a Port Land Use Development Zone,
referred to as the “Zone,” and an 11 member
Port Land Use Development
Advisory Council, referred to
as the “PLUDAC”. The Zone extends 3,000 feet from the water from
Brandon Shores in Anne Arundel County to Middle River in Baltimore
County.
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The PLUDAC consisted
of eleven members. The following agencies maintained ex-officio
members: Baltimore City government, Baltimore County government, Anne
Arundel County government, Maryland Department of Planning (MDP),
Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development (DBED). The
Secretary of the MDOT, served as the Chair of the PLUDAC. Five members
were appointed by the Governor to represent the following broad
interests: maritime, development, residential, environmental and the
general public.
The PLUDAC was charged with identifying vacant and underutilized
properties within the Zone and coordinating the development of a
strategy document to guide development within the Port Zone. The PLUDAC
was also directed to recommend, to the Governor and General Assembly,
plans, programs and strategies designed to return to productive use
vacant or underutilized private properties located within the immediate
influence of Maryland’s Port of Baltimore. During the planning period,
the PLUDAC narrowed the focus of analysis to
Port Focus Areas, or geographic subareas in which there either is
a concentration of port related industry or a concentration of vacant
industrially zoned land.
In Baltimore City
the Port Focus Areas include: Canton Industrial (bluegreen), Holabird
Business Park (brown), Locust Point (magenta), Port Covington (plum),
Fairfield (dark blue), Hawkins Point (eggplant) and Carroll Camden
(orange). In Baltimore County the Port Focus Areas are the North Point
peninsula (gold) and the area surrounding the MD 43 Middle River
Employment Center (purple). Although the Maryland Port Administration
maintains the Cox Creek Dredge Material Management site, there are no
Port Focus Areas in Anne Arundel County.
The PLUDAC finalized the MIRGMS in the July 2005. Completion
of the strategy document completes the work of the PLUDAC.
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