Presentation on Comprehensive Planning and Traditional Towns

Presentation on Comprehensive Planning and Traditional Towns

The Calvert County Planning Commission is currently engaged in the Town Center Master Plan Update Process. The Planning Commission will be hosting a speaker who will talk on comprehensive planning and traditional town planning. Thomas Hylton, a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, wrote Save Our Land, Save Our Countryside. He hosted an hour-long public television documentary of the same name. Mr. Hylton is a native of Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. “As president of Save Our Land, Save Our Towns Inc., a non-profit corporation, Hylton serves as an advocate of traditional towns that house people of all ages, races, and incomes.” (http://saveourlandsaveourtowns.org). He is the Chairman of the Pottstown Planning Commission and the Pottstown Shade Tree Commission.

The Planning Commission invites all citizens and business owners to attend Mr. Hylton’s presentation on Wednesday, June 25, 2008 at the Calvert High School Auditorium, 600 Dares Beach Road, Prince Frederick, Maryland. There will be an open house at 7:00 PM. Light refreshments will be served. The presentation will begin at 7:30 PM.

For more information, please contact the Planning and Zoning Department at 410-535-1600 x 2337 or pz@co.cal.md.us. Information about the Town Center Master Plan Update Process is on the web at www.co.cal.md.us, click on “Planning and Zoning” and then on “Town Centers.”