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Planning Commission forwards 2.25% annual growth policy and related zoning changes to county commissioners
Summary
The St. Mary’s County Planning Commission voted to forward an annual growth policy fixing an annual dwelling‑unit growth factor at 2.25% and related zoning and subdivision ordinance amendments to the County Commissioners, while leaving school-seat mitigation unresolved and flagging three outstanding school‑capacity issues for commissioner review.
The St. Mary’s County Planning Commission on June 9 recommended that the Board of County Commissioners adopt an annual growth policy that sets the countywide residential growth factor at 2.25 percent and forwarded implementing zoning and subdivision ordinance text for the commissioners’ consideration.
Phil Canavan, planning staff, summarized the introduced policy and related text amendments. The annual growth policy would designate a growth area and a rural preservation area and guide 70 percent of intended residential development into designated growth areas with a maximum of 30 percent allocated to the rural preservation area. Staff said the first‑year baseline would allow roughly 941 dwelling units countywide and that the rural preservation area cap would limit the rural share of that total to 30 percent.
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