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Staff briefs Planning Commission on four Maryland planning bills, including "Housing Certainty" review deadlines
Summary
City planning staff summarized four Maryland bills affecting local planning practice — including HB240 and HB243 on comp plan coordination, SB325 (Maryland Housing Certainty Act) requiring 30-day completeness checks for housing applications and longer vesting for final site plans, and HB1178 adding annexation notification requirements.
Planning staff briefed the Gaithersburg Planning Commission on April 22 about several Maryland bills passed during the recent legislative session that may affect local planning procedures.
Greg, a city staff member, summarized four bills. He said HB240 enhances coordination with the Maryland Department of Planning (MDP) by requiring jurisdictions to notify MDP when they begin a comprehensive zoning plan update and obliging MDP to provide guidance within 60 days. HB243 modernizes the state's comprehensive planning framework and aligns local master plans with newly…
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