Valley Inn
Negotiations are underway to sell the property. The county Development Review Committee recently reviewed a request to subdivide the property to allow the sale of the building to a new buyer and allow the present [...]
Stevenson Station – Adjacent Lot
Baltimore County is reviewing a request to build a house on the lot adjacent to Stevenson Station. Use of this lot was negotiated in a restrictive covenant on the redevelopment of Stevenson Station. The VPC [...]
Still fighting for the soul of Balto. Co.
By TOM HORTON "Cannot we create from a beautiful, natural landscape an environment inhabited by man in which natural beauty is retained, man housed in community?" - Plan for the Valleys of Baltimore County, 1962 [...]
The Early Days of the VPC
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 [...]
Planning with the ‘genius of the landscape’
By TOM HORTON/The Baltimore Sun "Cannot we create from a beautiful, natural landscape an environment inhabited by man in which natural beauty is retained, man housed in community?" - Plan for the Valleys of Baltimore [...]
The Green Spring and Worthington Valley Planning Council Lives
Baltimore Magazine Despite what you read in the newspapers, says William C. McDonnell, planning director for the Green Spring and Worthington Valley Planning Council (BALTIMORE, May, 1967), the council is not about to fold up [...]
The Valleys – Still Green
Property owners in the historic valleys north of Baltimore are meeting success in their unique, privately financed effort to turn the tide on urban sprawl. BY JOHN C. SCHMIDT/Baltimore Magazine Three years have passed since [...]