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St. Mary's Planning Commission asks county commissioners to begin 2010 comprehensive plan update
Summary
The Planning Commission voted to request a directive from the St. Mary''s County Commissioners to begin a formal, staff-led update to the county'wide comprehensive plan, proposing a multi-stage, publicly engaged process spanning about two years and organized around nine planning element groups.
St. Mary's County Planning Commission members voted to ask the Commissioners of St. Mary's County to authorize a formal review and update of the county's 2010 comprehensive plan.
The vote follows a presentation by Bill Hunt, director of the Department of Land Use and Growth Management, who outlined a revised scope of work that would place the Planning Commission as overall oversight body and the department as project manager for an estimated 24-month process.
Hunt said the process would begin with a trends and development-capacity report, proceed through public outreach tied to Maryland' Department of Planning''s 12 statewide visions, then move into a nine-element series of planning committees (water resources; sensitive areas; priority preservation areas; land use and growth management; transportation; public facilities; housing; human services; economic development). Each element group would draft written recommendations and language for the revised plan, staff would craft draft plan language, and the…
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