Prince George's County Planning Department Blog
Prince George's County Planning Department Blog
Merkle Wildlife Sanctuary, run by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and used as the headquarters of the Maryland Conservation Corp, is home to deer, osprey, bald eagles, owls, fox, song birds, snakes, turtles, and beavers. And it is just like home to nature lovers, birdwatchers, hikers, and fishermen.
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Eagle Harbor, the smallest municipality in the County, will celebrate its 90th anniversary in 2019, and the town officials are planning to “do everything a bit bigger” throughout the year with fireworks on the Fourth of July, a gala/scholarship awards dinner in April, and a black history program.
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Wednesday, September 26, 2018 10:30 a.m. – Noon County Administration Building 4th Floor Boardroom 14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive Upper Marlboro, MD 20772 Arlington, Virginia, has experienced a remarkable transformation from a suburban, auto-centric collection of neighborhoods to one of the country’s most recognized examples of the benefits of smart growth, sustainability, walkability, and transit-oriented […]
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Zoning Rewrite team member Brittney Drakeford’s workshop at the She the People! Summer camp taught students how they could leverage their political power to advocate for better food systems in Prince George’s County through direct service activities like establishing their own community garden, volunteering with the County’s Food Equity Council, or by conducting community assets maps.
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View our May speaker series featuring Jane Berkow, the president of the Green Burial Association of Maryland, which she helped found in 2015. In 2014, she retired from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Animal Plant Health Inspection Service, where she worked for 20 years as an organization development consultant.
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Bowie — Two years after Bowie was certified as a National Wildlife Federation Certified Community Wildlife Habitat, the community has not stopped promoting its efforts to reverse the loss of wildlife habitat and promote the use of green spaces.
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Upper Marlboro — Cabin Creek Heritage Farm is an example of what the Prince George’s County Planning Department was striving to achieve in its RCP. The goal of the plan is “preserving our existing rural and agricultural communities including our rural viewsheds, farmland, and the agricultural economy.”
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