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CommunityReality Check to host session on growth
Wednesday, May 10, 2006
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A statewide coalition of more than 100 organizations known as Reality Check Plus will hold on June 15 a series of afternoon sessions to explore and foster collective visioning about growth in Southern Maryland and in the state overall.
This three-county regional event, which starts at 1:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 15, will feature a keynote address by The Washington Post’s Roger K. Lewis.
Since 1984, his award-winning column on architecture and urban design, ‘‘Shaping the City,” has appeared weekly and bi-weekly in the Post. He is a practicing architect and a professor of architecture at University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, which he helped to start. His numerous articles on architecture, planning and urban design, historic preservation, housing, zoning, and public policy affecting the built environment appear regularly in national journals, periodicals, anthologies and encyclopedias. His ‘‘Shaping the City” cartoons, in addition to appearing continually in books and other regional and national publications, have been the subject of several exhibitions, including one at The National Building Museum in Washington, D.C.
The afternoon sessions, to be held at the Somerset Gymnasium Athletic Arena at St. Mary’s College of Maryland in St. Mary’s City, will focus on the implications of growth and the implementation of a common vision. It will also include a report on the results of an invitation-only growth-visioning exercise to be held earlier that morning.
A total of 160 individuals — including elected officials, government staff and community, civic and business leaders from throughout Southern Maryland — will participate in that exercise using blocks to represent the increment of new homes and jobs projected to come to the three-county region by 2030.
The cost of attending the public afternoon sessions is $15 per person. Interested attendees can register by calling 1-800-321-5011.
Alternatively, registration is available via fax or mail; visit www.realitycheckmaryland.org⁄southern_region.php (see the ‘‘Event Information” page) for more detailed instructions.
The fee will be waived for individuals for whom cost prevents their attendance; call 410-889-4112 for more information.
