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Commission reviews text amendment 25‑13: critical area updates add climate resiliency language and other revisions
Summary
Planning staff briefed the Calvert County Planning Commission on July 16 about proposed Zoning Ordinance text amendments 25‑13, which add climate‑resiliency goals, change the critical area review cycle, allow limited permeable pavement exceptions, and clarify definitions.
Planning staff presented proposed Zoning Ordinance text amendments 25‑13 to the Calvert County Planning Commission on July 16. The revisions respond to the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and Critical Area Commission review and would update the county’s critical area provisions to emphasize climate resiliency, modify review timelines, and add technical definitions and allowances.
Will Hager, Planner III, and Ron Marney, the county’s environmental planner, summarized the main changes. The amendments add goals to the critical area section to "reduce vulnerability to the impacts of climate change and incorporate measures to improve the climate resiliency of the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays and its tributaries" and to "ensure an equitable distribution of the burdens and benefits of development, mitigation, restoration, conservation, and adaptation to climate change in the critical area."
A key procedural change would alter the required…
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