City: Clarence (Du) Burns, Mayor (Larry Reich,
alternate); Frank X. Gallagher, President, City
Council (Anthony J. Ambridge, Jr., alternate);
Sally J. Michel, Chairperson, Planning
Commission. Baltimore County: Dennis F.
Rasmussen, County Executive (J. Timothy Pagan,
alternate); Norman W. Lauenstein, Chairperson,
County Council (Melvin G. Mintz, alternate);
Harold Gibbs Reid, Member, Planning Board.
Carroll County: John L. Armacost, President,
Board of County Commissioners (Vacancy,
alternate); Julia Gouge, Vice President, Board of
County Commissioners (Edmund Cueman,
alternate); William V. Lauterbach, Jr., Member,
Planning and Zoning Commission. Harford
County: Habem Freeman, Jr., County Executive
(William G. Carroll, alternate); John W.
Hardwicke, President, County Council (Barbara
A. Risacher, alternate); John Kunkel, Member,
Planning Advisory Board. Howard County:
Elizabeth Bobo, County Executive (Thomas G.
Harris, Jr., alternate); C. Vernon Gray,
Chairperson, County Council (Shane Pendergrass,
alternate); Sue-Ellen Hantman, Member, Planning
Board.

Municipalities representative: Phillip R. Miller,
Mayor of Manchester

Appointed by Governor: James P. Chandler;
Henry R. Hergenroeder, Jr., House of Delegates,
(Nancy L. Murphy, alternate); Nathan C. Irby,
Jr., State Senate, (Michael J. Wagner, alternate).

Non-voting members; Dennis M. Callahan, Mayor
of Annapolis; Adele Wilzack, Secretary of Health
and Mental Hygiene; Torrey C. Brown, Secretary
of Natural Resources; Constance Lieder, Secretary
of State Planning; Richard H. Trainor, Secretary
of Transportation.

Alfred P. Gwynn, Executive Director

2225 N. Charles St.
Baltimore 21218 Telephone: 554-5600

The Regional Planning Council was created in
1963 as the successor to the Baltimore Regional
Planning Council (Chapter 753, Acts of 1963).
The prior agency had functioned as part of the
State Planning Department since 1956. In 1983,
the Regional Planning Council was removed from
the Department of State Planning by Executive
Order. It was made an independent agency in
1984 (Chapter 373, Acts of 1984).

The Council's area of jurisdiction covers all of
Baltimore City and Anne Arundel, Baltimore,

Carroll, Harford, and Howard counties, and en-
compasses an area of 2,259 square miles. The
1980 Census showed that this metropolitan area
had a population of 2,174,000.

The Regional Planning Council is in effect a
council of local governments with State participa-
tion. The Council provides an opportunity for its
member governmental units to work together with
the State in dealing with common problems and
planning for the future development of the region.

Every five years, the Council is required by law
to reexamine, revise if necessary, readopt, and re-
publish the General Development Plan for the re-
gion. The next revision is scheduled for 1991.
Transportation, housing, recreation, water/sewer,
solid waste, energy and environmental planning
are all facets of the Council's program. The work
of the Council also encompasses socio-economic
analysis and evaluation of regional problems and
opportunities, including housing, regional econo-
my, and coordination of statistical data resources
(Code 1957, Art. 78D).

The Council publishes reports on transporta-
tion, demographics, housing characteristics, eco-
nomic forecasts, and similar matters. Copies of
these and the 1986 General Development Plan are
available through the Council's library at nominal
cost.

The Council's voting membership of twenty-
three persons includes three representatives from
each of six jurisdictions, as well as five members
appointed by the Governor. Representatives from
each jurisdiction include the mayor of the City of
Baltimore; the county executives of Baltimore,
Anne Arundel, Harford, and Howard counties;
the president of the Baltimore City Council; the
chairpersons of the County Council in Baltimore,
Anne Arundel, Harford, and Howard counties;
the president and a member of the Board of
County Commissioners from Carroll County; and
a member of the planning commissions or adviso-
ry boards of each jurisdiction. Members appointed
by the Governor include a member of the State
Senate, a member of the House of Delegates, an
elected municipal official, and two members-at-
large. The Governor may designate alternates for
the legislative members, and the elected officials
representing the six jurisdictions may designate an
alternate. The mayor of the City of Annapolis
serves ex officio as a non-voting member.