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Stories from the Valleys


The Early Days of the VPC

By William C. Trimble, Jr.
February 6, 2011

The late 1950s and early 1960s witnessed the virtually untrammeled expansion of residential real estate development in Baltimore County. The best efforts of a professionally- staffed Office of Planning and Zoning were often rendered ineffective by the coordinated actions of developers, some compliant county politicians, and a handful of attorneys ...

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