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Green Building Program
"Transforming Baltimore County Communities"

East Towson Demonstration Project

Known as the Pennsylvania Ave LEED Project, three new single family homes will be built on a site located at 408-409 Pennsylvania Ave. This is a demonstration project to show that standards for energy efficiency and improved indoor air quality can easily be adapted to affordable housing projects. 

Learn more about the project.

Green Building Program

The Green Building Program promotes energy and resource efficiency and environmentally friendly building techniques. The program does this by incorporating sustainable design principles within its funding for affordable housing. Sustainable design principles will be used to guide the rehabilitation, renovation and new construction of residential structures.

Green Building:

• is affordable to maintain
• produces little or no impact on the environment
• has low toxicity to humans, animals or botanical life

Green Building Standards

The Office of Community Conservation has partnered with several national programs to provide standards and criteria that will guide how affordable housing projects will be built in Baltimore County. These standards and criteria were designed to address the three major types of housing construction:

• Renovation
  
• Gut-rehab
  
• New Construction

These new standards and criteria are being incorporated into the Bid Packets (PDF) and Development Guidelines for all new funding requests.

Our Green Building program is not just for developers. There are many green things that homeowners and renters can do around the house that help you to save energy and add more comfort to the home. There is something for everybody!

Contact Us

Request more information about the Green Building program.

Elizabeth S. Glenn, Chief
Community Planning and Development
eglenn@baltimorecountymd.gov

Office of Community Conservation
Drumcastle Center
6401 York Road, 2nd Floor
Baltimore, Maryland 21212
Phone: 410-887-2908
Fax: 410-823-8547
E-mail: occ@baltimorecountymd.gov

Revised June 8, 2009