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Planning commission denies request to modify subdivision agricultural buffer in Woods Heritage
Summary
The Queen Anne's County Planning Commission rejected an applicant's request to defer and alter a required vegetative buffer on land adjacent to the Woods Heritage subdivision, citing code intent to protect agricultural uses and concerns about setting precedent.
The Queen Anne's County Planning Commission on Thursday denied a request to modify a required vegetative buffer for the Woods Heritage subdivision, ruling the proposed easement and delay in planting would undercut the county's agricultural-buffer standards.
The commission's decision came after the county planning staff, the applicant's attorney and multiple residents debated whether allowing a recorded easement that deferred planting, while doubling the potential easement width, would meet the intent of code section 18-1-76(d) to protect adjacent agricultural lands from nuisance claims.
Planning staff presented the history of the county's agricultural-buffer rules and recommended denial. Doug Summers, county planner, told the commission the parcel at 516 Poplar School Road had been conditioned with a 15-foot vegetative buffer…
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