Breakfast links: good pieces you might have missed before the election
Arundel Mills near Baltimore and rural Frederick’s future. Photo by jtcoleman on Flickr.
14th in chains: Ryan Avent weighs in on local businesses and chains: “The biggest impediment to entrepreneurship in the District … is probably the city’s nasty habit of requiring 14 difficult-to-get permits to do anything business oriented,” he wrote.
“Isn’t Maryland supposed to be the Smart Growth state?” BeyondDC asks that question as Frederick County approves a huge outlet mall, which will further spur auto-dependent sprawl way, way outside the Beltway (especially if the ICC is built).
And Rosapepe doesn’t care: Speaking of the ICC, a group of Maryland sutudents unsuccessfully lobbied state Senator Jim Rosapepe, who claims to be an environmentalist but won’t support efforts to defund the ICC.
Freeways bad part LXXVIII: Next American City summarizes the arguments against urban freeways and nationwide efforts to replace the worst with boulevards.