President Kyler opened a public hearing Thursday on three proposed amendments to Carroll County's 2023 Water and Sewer Master Plan and staff summarized changes that affect four municipalities.
Planning staffer Daphne Daly and Andrew Gray, deputy comprehensive planner, explained the amendments prompted by municipal comprehensive-plan updates and corrected inventory calculations.
Daly said the municipalities affected are Union Bridge, Hampstead, New Windsor and Taneytown, and she described specific map and calculation changes: Union Bridge revisions based on updated buildable-land inventory and current flows; Hampstead amendments including updates from “no plan” to “existing” or “priority” service areas (examples cited near Lower Beckleysville Road and at the base of a radio tower behind Ridge Engineering); New Windsor recalculations tied to updated gallons-per-day multipliers; and Taneytown corrections changing a property on Harney Road from long-range to priority sewer and fixing a demand-calculation error.
Daly told the board staff recommended the body either close the public hearing and keep the record open for 10 days or adopt the spring amendment and then send it to the Maryland Department of the Environment for final review and approval. No members of the public spoke on the record at the hearing.
Commissioner Collier moved to conclude the public hearing and keep the record open for 10 calendar days; the motion was seconded and carried by voice vote.
If the county adopts the amendments after the comment period, Daly said, the county will forward the adopted amendment package to the Maryland Department of the Environment for final review.