Vision: Looking 50 Years Into the Future

How will you get around? Will you walk, bike, drive, or take a bus, a train, or even a ferry? Will our communities still be inviting?

Decisions made today help to determine the future. The Baltimore Regional Transportation Board wants to work with you to improve our region's livability, sustainability, mobility and accessibility. Using a comprehensive approach, the BRTB wants to engage stakeholders throughout the region in a vision process. This vision for the future will include improvements in all types or modes of transportation, from walking and biking, to driving and riding on transit.　

To sustain our high quality of life, we must look at how we grow and how we are connected. With strategic investments in our current transportation system, we can ensure that transportation in the Baltimore region continues to support our strong economy, maintain our sense of community, and protect our valuable environmental resources while curbing growth in congestion.　

The vision process will facilitate a dialogue about how to plan for the Baltimore region we want to create for future generations. The BRTB will be reaching out to hear what you have to say about the future of transportation in the Baltimore region. Over the coming months the BRTB will

• engage the public in a variety of ways;
• conduct technical analyses of the impacts of alternative transportation and land development scenarios; and
• develop consensus on a preferred scenario for the vision.　

>> Download a Fact Sheet about the upcoming Vision process (pdf, 87 kb)

>> View the Resolution by BMC's Board of Directors, pledging support for the public involvement process(pdf)

Kickoff Workshop with Key Stakeholders

On Tuesday, March 2, 2010, a group of key stakeholders from around the region - including members of the BRTB, local area planning directors, Citizens Advisory Committee members, and representatives of local nonprofit organizations - gathered to learn more about the upcoming vision planning process and how they and their organizations can be involved.

Below is a list of speakers and, when available, copies of presentations:

Welcome and Overview of Workshop Agenda
Frank Johnson, BRTB Chair, Empowered Representative for Carroll County
[Presentation] (pdf, 188 kb)

Baltimore Region Vision and Long Range Transportation Plan
Todd Lang, Director of Transportation Planning, Baltimore Metropolitan Council
[Presentation] (pdf, 204 kb)

Innovative Practices Used in Developing the Atlanta Region’s Plan 2040
Tom Weyandt, Director of Comprehensive Planning, Atlanta Regional Commission
[Presentation] (pdf, 2,549 kb)

The Importance of a Vision for the Baltimore Region
The Honorable Ken Ulman, Howard County Executive

PlanMaryland Presentation
Rich Josephson, Maryland Department of Planning
[Presentation] (pdf, 2,977 kb)

Scenario Planning Tools
Presented by BMC Staff (Charles Baber, Jamie Bridges, Jody McCullough) on behalf of the Federal Highway Administration

Panel Discussion
Facilitator: Marsha S. McLaughlin, Director, Howard County Department of Planning

Panelists:

• Todd Lang, Director of Transportation Planning, Baltimore Metropolitan Council
• Tom Weyandt, Director of Comprehensive Planning, Atlanta Regional Commission
• Morgan Barlow, Portfolio Associates, Inc.
• Yolanda Takesian, Kittleson & Associates, Inc.
  
  

For more information:
Jody McCullough, jmccullough@baltometro.org or 410-732-0500 x1049.

Last Updated: 03/11/2010