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County staff outline repeal and replacement of agricultural preservation rules with public comment set for August
Summary
Jennifer David, the county's rural planner, presented a comprehensive draft repeal and replacement of Calvert County's agricultural preservation rules and regulations on July 30 to consolidate past policies, clarify TDR administration and prepare the county to reopen its Agricultural Preservation District (APD) program.
Jennifer David, rural planner for Calvert County Planning and Zoning, presented a draft repeal and replacement of the county's agricultural preservation rules and regulations on July 30 and said the rewrite is intended to consolidate past policies, clarify administration of the transferable development rights (TDR) program, and ready the county to lift the long-standing moratorium on new Agricultural Preservation District (APD) applications.
The draft incorporates several substantive changes and clarifications, including: use of net acreage (excluding wetlands based on best available data) to compute TDRs; updated minimum acreage criteria for APD designation that vary by whether a parcel is in a priority preservation area or contiguous to preserved APDs; application of density by APD rather than by parcel; counting primary residences, buildable residential lots and tenant houses toward density; formal incorporation of a TDR reserve program (a county-run TDR bank established in…
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