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Garrett County planning commission approves annual report, forwards parks project list to commissioners
Summary
The Garrett County Planning Commission approved its state-required annual report and endorsed a list of parks and recreation capital projects to send to the county commissioners, while staff warned that real estate transfer tax revenues have declined from about $200,000 a year to roughly $146,000 this year.
Sierra, a planning department staff member, presented the Garrett County Planning Commission’s annual report and a recommended list of parks and recreation capital projects and asked the commission to approve the report for submission to the county commissioners.
The report is a state-required filing summarizing planning activity; Sierra said she pulled what data she could from the county’s building and subdivision databases but could not provide some specific historical lot-creation details. “I sent the annual report to everybody. That's something that the state requires. I don't know if anybody had any questions on it. It's just a mandated thing,” she said.
The report includes a recommended list of projects that staff gathered after soliciting requests from municipalities, service organizations and athletic groups. Sierra told the commission the county’s…
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