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Developers ask commissioners to reduce duplicate review fees for Taneytown projects; board to revisit next week
Summary
Developers and engineers told commissioners that Taneytown's local review process effectively produces near‑final plans before the county sees them, prompting a request to reduce duplicate county review fees; the board asked staff for more analysis and scheduled the item for next week's meeting.
Developers seeking relief from what they described as duplicative development‑review fees told the Carroll County Board of County Commissioners on April 17 that two Taneytown subdivision projects had effectively completed most engineering work before county reviewers saw the files.
County planning staff briefed the board about the county’s three‑phase review process—concept, preliminary and final—and explained that fees are assessed at each phase to offset county review costs. Laura Mathias, bureau chief for development review, explained that municipalities differ in approach and that Taneytown requires a…
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