Our Say: So far, Smart Growth having too little impact

Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization, wryly remarked, "I think it would be a good idea." In Maryland, you can say just about the same thing about Smart Growth - a policy that has supposedly been one of the pillars of state planning for more than a decade.

Unfortunately, as reported recently in The Washington Post, the compromises built into the legislation in 1997, in order to get the General Assembly to pass it, have essentially neutralized the entire program. And we have this on the authority of none other than the National Center for Smart Growth - the academic institute founded by former...