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Planning commission reviews environmental chapter of St. Mary's 2050 plan, asks for clearer implementation and mapping
Summary
At its Nov. 25 work session, the St. Mary's County Planning Commission reviewed the environmental and natural resources chapter of the St. Mary's 2050 plan, pressing staff to clarify implementation language for buffer protections, to provide GIS-backed mapping for priority preservation areas and to soften new 'require' language to 'explore' in some action items.
St. Mary's County Planning Commission members on Nov. 25 reviewed the environmental and natural resources chapter of the St. Mary's 2050 comprehensive-plan update, pressing staff for clearer implementation language and better public-facing mapping.
Jessica, director of the county Department of Land Use and Growth Management, said the section is organized around areas of critical state concern, priority preservation areas and water resources and that much of the text carries forward from the 2010 plan while incorporating community input. "A lot of this stuff is already part of what our department does," she told the commission.
Commissioners focused questions on three practical topics: whether state-designated "targeted ecological…
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