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Charrettes in Site Design and
Land Use Regulation
Maryland Bar Journal
September/October 2006
by Dino C. La Fiandra
This article was reproduced with permission of the Maryland Bar Journal, originally published by the Maryland State Bar Association.
There is a relatively new planning and zoning tool gaining popularity in Maryland known as "charrettes". A charrette is a series of meetings involving the stakeholders and the charrette team. Several Maryland jurisdictions have used charrettes in recent years for planning and zoning. Howard County has used a charrette process in preparing a new Columbia Downtown Master Plan. The Upper Rock District in Rockville was the focus of a week long charrette in 2004 and produced an attractive plan for the redevelopment of that site. Other Maryland jurisdictions have used charrettes as well, including the Maryland National Park & Planning Commission and Baltimore County.
Contrary to traditional zoning and development principles which apply a ridgid set of regulations to proposed development within a defined geographic area, charrettes use a different methodology to design a project uniquely from scratch, or almost from scratch. In Maryland and elsewhere, charrettes have been used as a catalyst to permit a departure from restrictive zoning regulations which obstruct creative development. This article examines the use of charrettes in Maryland and elsewhere as they have emerged over the past few years.
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