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Revisiting the Community Land Trust: An Academic Literature Review

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Over 225 CLTs have developed since their inception in the 1960s (Grounded Solutions Network 2021), and fifteen states have some version of a positive law supporting CLT formation and affirming CLT legality in their state (Decker 2018). Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 2010. Where have CLTs been established?

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Montgomery County Maryland Planning Board resigns

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Casey Anderson, chair of the Montgomery County Planning Board, in Forest Grove Park in Silver Spring in 2018. Planners are responsible not just for making neighborhoods great, but for dealing with a wide range of other planning responsibilities--economic development and growth, transportation, equity, etc.--while

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CED and Affordable Housing: How Does Manufactured Housing Fit In?

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See the following: Manufactured Housing, Modular Housing and Zoning (2020); Abandoned Manufactured Homes: What’s Next (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight: Some Next Steps (2018); Hidden in Plain Sight (2018); Marco Polo and Mobile Home Spaces (2017); Mobile Homes and Property Taxes (2010); Transforming Trailers into Assets (2005).

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Updating the best practice elements of revitalization to include elements 7 and 8 | Transformational Projects Action Planning at a large scale

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1) neighborhood/district/city/county wide as part of a master plan; (2) within functional elements of a master plan such as transportation, housing, or economic development; and (3) within a specific project (e.g., how do we make this particular library or transit station or park or neighborhood "great"?);

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Another attempt to raise discussion about the DC Height Limit

Rebuilding Place in Urban Space

And Maglev and the Central Business District, which is another inducement for a Height increase, one completely unseen by DC's planning and economic development officials (" DC, Transformational Projects Action Planning, and the Baltimore-Washington Maglev project ," 2021).