Helping local governments achieve exciting and desirable places to work, live and play in Maryland through a holistic approach toward planning.

When Marylanders consider the most vibrant and exciting places in the state, they often think of our main streets dotted with unique shops and restaurants, thriving mixed-use communities where people can work, live and play, and areas where the built and natural environments co-exist fluidly. Programs like Housing’s Main Street Maryland and Commerce’s Arts and Entertainment Districts provide tax and other incentives and assistance to better merge people and place-based planning. 

Building upon the recently completed Reinvest Maryland 2.0, A Better Maryland develops statewide, regional and local partnerships ensuring that the “quality” is not neglected in our communities. Maryland contains many examples of signature areas and regions whose development, preservation, and/or design can be modeled and replicated to fit other local contexts. Providing the tools and resources needed for healthy and dynamic communities is one of the planning profession’s original purposes, and one that A Better Maryland upholds.