{"id":7510,"date":"2015-02-11T20:34:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-12T01:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.mdhousing.org\/?p=7510"},"modified":"2016-01-23T20:18:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T01:18:35","slug":"five-new-sustainable-communities-added-including-historic-towns-on-eastern-shore-western-md","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2015\/02\/11\/five-new-sustainable-communities-added-including-historic-towns-on-eastern-shore-western-md\/","title":{"rendered":"Five New Sustainable Communities Added, Including Historic W. Md. and Eastern Shore Towns"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Founded<\/a>

Founded in 1683, originally as a seaport, the Eastern Shore town of Oxford is reinventing itself through the Sustainable Communities program.<\/p><\/div>\n

FEBRUARY 11\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Crownsville, MD –\u00a0<\/strong>DHCD is announcing the addition of\u00a0five new Sustainable Communities, bringing the statewide total to 82. There is at least one designated\u00a0\u00a0Sustainable Community in each of Maryland\u2019s 23 counties and Baltimore City.<\/p>\n

Maryland’s Sustainable Communities program seeks to strengthen reinvestment and revitalization in the state’s older communities through state, local and private sector partnerships.<\/p>\n

The new Sustainable Communities are:<\/p>\n

Baltimore County \u2013 Northwest Gateways<\/strong><\/p>\n

Frederick County \u2013 Town of Myersville<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kent County \u2013 Town of Betterton<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kent County\/Queen Anne\u2019s County \u2013 Town of Millington<\/strong><\/p>\n

Talbot County \u2013 Town of Oxford<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Northwest Gateways area is the seventh Sustainable Community in Baltimore County. It targets the Liberty and Reisterstown Road corridors and includes various commercial revitalization nodes, the Fieldstone and Sudbrook Park historic districts and the Old Court and Millford Mill Metro Stations.\u00a0 Key revitalization strategies targeted towards this area include renovating or redeveloping deteriorating commercial buildings and strip shopping centers, improving aesthetic appeal of streetscape, upgrading curbs, sidewalks, alleys and other infrastructure, offering no or low-interest loans to low-moderate income home owners for energy efficiency upgrades and working with the State Highway Administration to improve pedestrian, bike and transit access.<\/p>\n

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The sixth Sustainable Community in Frederick County, the Town of Myersville, incorporated in 1904, has targeted its historic core for a Sustainable Communities designation. A small bedroom community that cherishes its parks and open space, Myersville plans to preserve its community identity through the establishment of local historic district, improve the infrastructure and aesthetics on its Main Street, connect parks and open spaces through trails and greenways and complete improvements at Trolley Park, the Town\u2019s pocket park.<\/p>\n

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\"Betterton,<\/a>

Betterton, with its old-world charm, is now a Sustainable Community.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Town of Betterton is the second Sustainable Community designated in Kent County. This quaint community boasts Victorian-era housing stock, national and local historic districts, and a public beach. \u00a0Making \u201cgreen\u201d improvements is core to its revitalization strategy.\u00a0 The Town plans to seek a Sustainable Maryland Certified designation, design and construct a green street to address flooding issues, establish a walking\/biking trail through the Town and along the beach,, and initiate a beautification program along its Main Street.<\/p>\n

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Located at the head of the Chester River, the Town of Millington is uniquely situated in both Kent and Queen Anne\u2019s Counties. The town, incorporated in 1890, has an interesting history as a center of commerce and is also a popular place for fishing with public fishing piers.\u00a0 The town\u2019s revitalization strategy includes beautifying the downtown streetscape, improving residential and commercial facades as a means to attract home buyers and small businesses, supporting the development of a senior housing\/assisted living facility, enhancing Millington\u2019s waterfront and building a town museum.<\/p>\n

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Founded in 1683 and incorporated in 1852, the Town of Oxford is one of Maryland\u2019s oldest communities. Historically recognized as a seaport in Maryland, the Town of Oxford has reinvented itself more than once to adapt to its changing environment.\u00a0 As a Sustainable Community, the town recognizes that it needs to adapt to climate change and plans to continue the development of living shorelines, establish a Community Revitalization Fund, acquire and\/or support the rehabilitation of various commercial and mixed-use buildings in the historic district and develop a long term Capital Improvement Plan that will strengthen Oxford\u2019s stormwater and tidal water infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FEBRUARY 11\u00a0 Crownsville, MD –\u00a0DHCD is announcing the addition of\u00a0five new Sustainable Communities, bringing the statewide total to 82. There is at least one designated\u00a0\u00a0Sustainable Community in each of Maryland\u2019s 23 counties and Baltimore City. Maryland’s Sustainable Communities program seeks to strengthen reinvestment and revitalization in the state’s older communities through state, local and private  Read the Rest…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,8,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-development","category-community-legacy","category-sustainable-communities"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/116"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7510"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8505,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7510\/revisions\/8505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}