Call to Order Baltimore City has many vacant or abandoned homes. One in four homes in the surrounding community are abandoned. Where do you think the people who left these homes went? Why did they leave? Grab a post-it note and place it where you live on the map

Today’s Objectives Students will be able to analyze how the state government uses zoning and smart growth to solve the problem of urban sprawl  Participating in a simulation  Taking notes  Planning a city  Completing an HSA aligned exit ticket

How do we try to make cities livable? One major way is by zoning properties. Zoning laws are regulations that state where homes and businesses can be located Zoning is a powerful tool that can be used to control reckless use of land and encourage growth

A short history of zoning  The Equitable Building, constructed in 1916, blocked sunlight from hundreds of homes.  New York City passed laws that limited where tall buildings could be.  This began the practice of zoning.

Residential Single Family: Places where people live. Not designed for high traffic.  Row homes  Houses Types of Zoning Areas

Residential Multiple Family: Places where people live. Not designed for high traffic.  Apartment buildings  Nursing Homes Types of Zoning Areas

Commercial Property that is used for businesses.  McDonalds  7/11  Best Buy  Safeway Types of Zoning Areas

Industrial Factories, warehouses, placed that tend to be noisy and busy.  Domino Sugar  Baltimore Docks  Utz Factory Types of Zoning Areas

Identify which Zoning Area this is: Starbucks wants to open up a new store. COMMERCIAL

Identify which Zoning Area this is: Much of Baltimore is row homes. Residential

Identify which Zoning Area this is: This movie theatre is in Harbor East COMMERCIAL

Identify which Zoning Area this is: Every city needs a water treatment plant Industrial

Identify which Zoning Area this is: The famous American poet, Edgar Allen Poe lived here. Residential

Identify which Zoning Area this is: Boy, I bet these machines are noisy. Industrial

 A cities and suburbs have grown, the countryside has gotten smaller  This is bad because land is not being used as effectively as it could be.

Let’s go on a field trip to Towson!

What is URBAN SPRAWL?  When people move from the city to the suburbs and spread the city out over the surrounding environments  This hurts the environment.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could turn this trend around? How can we make this into something usable?

One way to do this is to get more out of land we’re already using.

Smart Growth  Zoning vacant lots to build more IN the city, rather than outside of it.  Mayor Rawlings- Blake is proposing that blocks of vacant property be re- zoned from residential to commercial.

URBAN SPRAWL?  Zoning vacant lots to build more IN the city, rather than outside of it. SMART GROWTH

Let me model the next activity.

1Residential single family 2Residential multi- family 3Commercial 4Industrial