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Executive Order: Locating State Facilities to Stimulate Transit-Oriented Development
In September 2009, Governor O’Malley signed Executive Order 01.01.2009.12, Locating Facilities To Stimulate Transit-Oriented Development, which formalized a State policy to prioritize purchase and lease of new State office and laboratory space within designated TODs. This executive order requires that whenever DGS and MDOT use a point system to evaluate proposals for office or laboratory space, the agency must award at least five percent of the total allocable points for space located within a half mile of a rail or other fixed guideway transit station, and an additional seven percent of the total allocable points to proposals for space located within designated TODs. When the agency does not use a point system, it has to include a location within a designated TOD or near transit as one of the most heavily weighted factors in the solicitation. When a location within a TOD or near transit is not selected, the agency must submit a written explanation to the Maryland Board of Public Works justifying its failure to select a location near transit.
Read Executive Order 01.01.2009.12