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JOINT RESOLUTIONS

General Assembly that will help the municipal
governments, the planning boards, and other concerned
local officials and citizens to answer the question now
facing them; and

WHEREAS, The State of Maryland cost of sprawl report
should fill the information void that makes local
decisions so difficult. The report should summarize what
is known about the different costs as they apply to
different neighborhood types and to different, community
development patterns, and it should indicate whether the
costs are incurred publicly or privately; now, therefore,
be it

RESOLVED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF MARYLAND, That a
joint committee on the cost of sprawl be appointed by the
Speaker of the House of Delegates and the President of
the Senate to sake a report to the 1976 Maryland General
Assembly on the problem of new development growth; and be
it further

RESOLVED, That copies of this Resolution be sent to
the Honorable Marvin Mandel, Governor, the Speaker of the
House of Delegates and the President of the Senate,
State House, Annapolis, Maryland.

Approved May 15, 1975.

No. 43
(House Joint Resolution 27)

A House Joint Resolution concerning

[[Railroad Task Force]]
State Rail Plan

FOR the purpose of requesting the [[Governor to appoint a
Railroad Task Force to represent citizens' interest
in]] Secretary of Transportation to review with the
Legislative Council of the General Assembly, prior
to finalizing, the State Rail Plan now being
formulated by the State Department of
Transportation.

With the ever—growing threat from air pollution
caused by motor vehicle exhaust emissions and the
gobbling up of open spaces for the construction of more
super—highways, it is obvious that we should be
increasing railway services, improving railway