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Planning Board defers vote on residential CMDP update after debate over proposed 30% overflow parking
Summary
After staff presented updates to the Comprehensive Manual of Development Policies (residential section), including a proposed increase in recommended overflow/visitor parking from 15% to 30%, developers and attorneys urged delay; the board voted to defer the residential section vote for 60 days to allow stakeholder review.
The Baltimore County Planning Board on Nov. 20 voted to defer a final decision for 60 days on the residential section of the Comprehensive Manual of Development Policies (CMDP) after a contested public hearing and board discussion focused on a proposed increase in the manual’s recommended overflow/visitor parking requirement.
Jennifer Nugent of the Department of Planning presented the residential update and described the effort as a modernization of format, graphic material and cross-references to the Baltimore County Zoning Regulations (BCZR). Nugent said staff had checked the manual’s residential standards against the BCZR and that most technical dimensional standards were unchanged. The presentation noted one substantive…
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