Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 18, 2020

This evening an ordinance will be introduced in the Baltimore City Council to adopt the 2018 International Green Construction Code. In the realm of green building this is a big deal. The existing green building code mandates that nearly all newly constructed or extensively modified building must be certified green.

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Green Building Law Update

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Baltimore City is poised to adopt a new zoning code that is among the most ''green building friendly'' land use ordinances in the country. A green building friendly zoning ordinance is significant when so many local codes including land use ordinances across the country stand in the way of sustainability efforts.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 17, 2015

Baltimore City adopted the International Green Construction Code 2012 as an overlay to the City’s building, fire and related codes effective April 1, 2015. Policy making public officials have described that when the triennial code revisions are adopted there will also be changes to the new Green Code. ” Read on.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 11, 2020

Mayor and City Council of Baltimore , a much watched climate change case. The plaintiff is the municipal government of Baltimore, Maryland. Baltimore and the other state and local governments are ignoring this settled law about claims for climate change and attempting to end run this precedent by suing in state courts.

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Green Building Law Update

MARCH 23, 2014

In 2012, New York enacted NYCL RPT § 470 enabling local governments to exempt green buildings from real property taxes. The amount of the exemption permitted varies by year and by the certification level achieved. A real property tax exemption is the most common local government incentive for Green building.

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Green Building Law Update

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Motivations vary from concerns over global warming to increasing energy independence, and hedging against rising fuel costs to because it is chick to be green. People across the United States are seeking alternatives to conventional energy sources. Advances in solar technology have made photovoltaics a much sought after energy alternative.

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Green Building Law Update

JUNE 5, 2016

That rate does not include that at the time of the veto, pending before the Maryland Public Service Commission was a Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. Twenty years ago Maryland had among the least expensive price of electricity to the ultimate consumer in the residential, commercial and industrial sectors, but as of March 2016 at 14.3

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