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Taneytown planning commission presses for clearer implementation, data fixes in comprehensive plan
Summary
The Taneytown Planning Commission reviewed its draft comprehensive plan page by page, asking staff for a concrete implementation roadmap for downtown revitalization, reconciled population data, consistent affordable-housing definitions, and clearer mapping updates before sending the municipal growth element to the county.
The Taneytown Planning Commission held an extended, page-by-page review of its draft comprehensive plan, urging staff to replace aspirational language with concrete steps, to fix inconsistent data and definitions, and to tighten maps and implementation guidance.
Commissioners repeatedly asked for an explicit roadmap that shows how the plan’s goals would be achieved. “We need a plan. Downtown,” a planning commission member (Speaker 3) said when urging a short, actionable framework rather than broad vision statements. Several members proposed either an appendix or follow-up workshop to sketch specific projects and timelines that would move the town from goals to on-the-ground action.
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