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Planning commission recommends employment-campus zoning changes to commissioners; motion passes 5–0 with one abstention

5929529 · July 16, 2025
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Summary

The commission recommended amendments to Chapter 158 (Employment Campus District) to replace an initial development-plan requirement with site-plan review and to allow greater flexibility of permitted uses. Commissioners added a requirement that bulk and yard rules that protect adjoining residential properties apply to employment-campus parcels; a

The Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission voted July 15 to recommend proposed amendments to the county’s Employment Campus zoning regulations, sending the draft to the Board of County Commissioners with the commission’s modification that commercial/industrial adjacency protections also apply to Employment Campus properties.

Planning staff presented the marked-up Chapter 158 language the Board of County Commissioners had asked the commission to review. The proposed changes remove a requirement for an initial, district-wide development plan and instead substitute site-plan review and…

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