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Calvert County commissioners direct staff to prepare consolidated industrial zoning ordinance for public hearing
Summary
The Board of County Commissioners voted to prepare a revised zoning ordinance that combines the I‑1 (light industrial) and Industrial Mixed Use (IMU) districts into a single industrial district, preserves size limits for ‘home improvement centers,’ and makes heavy‑industrial uses subject to a special‑exception (Board of Appeals) process.
Calvert County commissioners on Jan. 14 voted to send a revised zoning ordinance to public hearing that would merge the county’s light industrial (I‑1) and industrial mixed‑use (IMU) districts into a single industrial district and add a special‑exception route for heavy industrial uses.
The measure, moved during the board’s discussion of the Planning and Zoning department’s draft update and approved by the full board, directs staff to prepare a hearing draft that harmonizes permitted and conditional uses in the two districts and preserves existing conditions such as a 25,000‑square‑foot cap for “home improvement centers” located outside town centers. The board also directed that heavy industrial uses be treated as a special exception routed to the Board of Appeals.
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