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Planning Commission forwards revised Chesapeake Bay critical area maps to county commissioners
Summary
After a staff presentation and one public commenter, the Planning Commission voted to forward state-produced revised critical area boundary maps to the Commissioners of St. Mary's County for formal adoption; staff and a caller discussed implications for property owners when mapped shorelines shift.
The St. Mary's County Planning Commission voted to forward state-prepared, revised Chesapeake Bay critical area boundary maps to the Commissioners of St. Mary's County for adoption.
Bill Hunt, director of the Department of Land Use and Growth Management, described the maps as a state-produced, electronically digitized update to shoreline and tidal-wetland boundaries that replaces older hand-drawn 1972 shorelines. Hunt said the mapping project was led by the Maryland General Assembly'mandated process (House Bill 1253, 2008) and carried out by the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Critical Area Commission using color-infrared imagery, LIDAR, aerial photography and GIS. Local staff and Salisbury University assisted; field visits were used to ground-truth some…
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