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Local officials urge caution: smaller units don—t automatically mean lower prices, counties stress infrastructure and trade-offs
Summary
Representatives of the Maryland Municipal League and Maryland Association of Counties told the committee that municipalities and counties face capacity and infrastructure constraints and warned that replacing one single-family house with townhomes does not guarantee affordability. They urged balanced approaches to state policy including attention to property-tax and infrastructure impacts.
Angelica Bailey Cupari of the Maryland Municipal League and Don Butchko of the Maryland Association of Counties told the Education, Energy, and the Environment Committee that local governments bear practical responsibilities—public hearings, infrastructure, school capacity, waste water systems and administrative capacity—that shape how land-use reforms play out. "Zoning and development decisions are made in public with hearings,…
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