Carroll County, MD Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission, 21 Jun 2022

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Good morning, everybody welcome to uh the uh planting zone commission for today june 21st.

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Which, I think is first day of summer. Yes, it is, it is so it's exactly where we want to be on the.

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First day of summer yeah, um so I guess we'll begin with establishment of a quorum as we always do.

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Mr wathers, I'm here ms kirkman here mr lester here mr hoff, here mr kane here, mr smith, here mr closer.

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Here, commissioner, weaver secretary eisenberg here mr chair, please let the record reflect.

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That seven members are present and we do have a quorum. Thank you. Let's stand for the pledge of.

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Allegiance please, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america intended to be.

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The republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

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Right item four is uh review and approval of the agenda. Are there any changes that are anticipated.

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To the agenda as presented to us, no, not not today, all right I'd be happy to entertain a.

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Motion that we approve the agenda as presented, I make motion that we approve the agenda. A second.

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All right, all in favor all right. The agenda will stand approved, uh item five review and approval.

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Of the minutes from may 17, 2022 and june 1st 2022., anyone have any suggested edits to those.

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I'd be happy to entertain a motion for approval of those two sets of minutes. I move. We approve.

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The minutes for may 17th and june 1st second all right and we have a motion and a second for.

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Approval of the minutes may 17th june 1st any discussion all in favor post. Anyone standing.

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They stand approved very good move to item six commission member reports. um I don't have.

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Anything to report- I don't think um I will turn it over to commissioner weaver. Do you have anything.

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You'd like to add just it's nice to be back, and I see a full board here. This is uh tremendous. I'm.

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Filling in today for commissioner lance, but uh you know, I guess, interviewed quite a few people.

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Here but um for this position, but uh I'm just glad to see we have a full board and we can move ahead.

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In the right direction, so that's all I have today it's nice to have you back. You were our ex officio.

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Member for a long time- and we missed you- it's nice to have you sitting back in the chair, so welcome.

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Back this is neat, it's nice to have a full board. So thank the commissioners for that as well. Thanks.

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People for serving that's more important any other members have any comments. They'd like to make.

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All right item: seven administrative reports, madam secretary, good morning, everyone thank you for all.

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Being here today, um especially on this first day of summer after a gorgeous long weekend as well.

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um So for administrative matters report the may 17th.

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Staff report and approval of the stavros property along liberty road. I can't remember the project.

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Number anyway, apologize; apologies for that. That um is going to be appealed to the bza. um Perhaps.

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Sometime in august, it'll be heard they just filed last week for for that appeal. So, as you know,.

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um The board of zoning appeals is the appellate for decisions made at the planning, commission and.

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So that is the next step um in the process. Is that a de novo appeal? Yes, okay, yeah? Yes, so because they.

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Don't take into account anything we said, they'd, look at it fresh and anew. That's correct. Okay,.

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um I'll keep you up to date on the outcome of that. When did you say that hearing is um it hasn't been.

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Officially set, but we believe it'll probably be in august. Okay, thank you. There are no extensions. This.

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Month but there are some additional bza cases from the last month, so three cases were heard in may.

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The 6392 barry frankel jr for conditional use for a contractor equipment, storage yard.

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um That had 10 distance variances, the location is 212 west old liberty, road in sykesville and.

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Commissioner, district 4 and that case was approved. The next was 6393 pine ridge farms for conditional.

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Use as a butcher shop and a slaughterhouse with nine distance variances that property.

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As at 5252 band hall hill, road in westminster in district 1, and that was approved as well.

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There was a case that was denied that was 6391. Kami reese was for conditional use for.

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A commercial kennel with a size, variance located on salem bottom road in westminster, district 4.

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That case was denied by the bza due to existing conflicts. Two upcoming cases for the month of.

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June, are we care denali? It's a conditional use request for a 12 000 gallon petroleum tank on 30.

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Acres, but it is in the heavy industrial district on cabot court and woodbine.

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That property is in district 4, as well as 6401 dustin moser for conditional use as a commercial.

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Kennel and a distance variance from 400 feet to 280 feet. The property is on five acres in the.

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Ag zone on braddock road and mount airy, which is also in district four, and both of these request.

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The planning department found consistent with the master plan. Are there any questions on any of the.

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Past cases or upcoming cases, okay, so we have a very long agenda. I have nothing else to report.

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This morning- and we do have some refreshments too, because it is such a long agenda to keep you.

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Fed and hydrated, thank you. We appreciate you taking good care of us, we'll move on to item eight.

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Board of education facilities, master plan and bill kane, I think, is back with us again good morning.

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Good morning, back back again, um I didn't- I don't have anything prepared today, but.

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I'm happy to answer any questions that you had. I know uh we presented it last month.

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And uh it's quite the long document, so I'm sure it was a good reading during your uh a long weekend.

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You should have a letter to that was prepared um for your approval.

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And signature, if you agree with um the letter in the document.

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Yes, so we I think the letter was circulated to us the draft letter. Obviously it's dated.

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Today june 21st um does any do any members have any additional questions.

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For I don't know, we had an extensive discussion last time.

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All right, and um did you all, have a chance to look at the letter that was.

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Circulated and if you have any questions I did not, I don't believe I saw that letter.

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Yes, that's just me, there I'll circulate it up here um and then.

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I'm sorry it was emailed, I'm sure.

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It sounds like that uh we don't have any questions for you and it sounds like subject to any.

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uh Revisions to the letter that will be in a position to um issue the required letter that.

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uh I think basically says that uh it's consistent with the master plan correct, so the letters for.

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Consistency as he has to come forward every year to make sure that the educational facilities.

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Master plan is consistent with the carroll county master plan and and our review. It.

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Is consistent and um distributed that letter for your review um via email and here's this morning.

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Just be signed off by the chair as well, very good, well,.

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And thank you again for coming to us with all of this information and all the good work that you do.

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You're welcome on this, it's very helpful to us and it does have an impact on what we do.

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Certainly um so do we need to um other than execute the letter take any action. um I would.

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Just take a vote make saying that the educational facilities master plan is consistent with the 2019.

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Amended carroll county master plan and giving the chair authorization to sign and forward the letter.

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To the board of education, does anyone want to adopt what she just said as your motion.

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If I may add just you know bill, I guess the biggest issue is these schools get.

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To that point is going to be the funding of these that's a designated funding source and.

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It's not, uh we should not was used for the tech center in east middle.

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It's going to take years to get that funding back up and uh as.

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The school uh board of education considered comprehensive redistricting to.

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Break this apart, I know you're doing the southern redistricting, but have they looked at.

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More than that, the the current redistricting committee is just looking at the southern area.

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The if they're, if the board of ed, uh wanted to look at comprehensive, they'd they'd, have to form.

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A new you know, committee, that's county-wide and look at it at this point. They haven't.

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Discussed that um I think they want to get through the southern area, which is the.

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Southern area, schools, it's a significant amount of schools and that's really where most of the.

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Capacity concerns are at this point, the the northern area. Schools aren't quite as.

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Utilized as the southern area right now so, but it but yeah, certainly um uh well, I think it's.

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Going to be a new board here, you know in a few months, but when the new board is in place of.

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Something they can certainly look at, and obviously this is just the the needs.

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Document the plan that identifies the needs- the capital budget request- that goes.

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To the county and and the state would be looking at the funding and the board will be.

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Having conversations with the commissioners during the budget cycle next spring, I would imagine on.

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You know the needs and and how to best go about them. This is going to be a tough one here in the.

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Next, six, seven years, I think middle schools are a capacity high schools are under capacity and.

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Certain elementaries are coming up in capacity, but they need to balance this.

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Throughout the county- and that's here again a tough thing for people to do, but.

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And funding is going to be the other key source for this 40 schools. They have to.

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Do at least one a year or more to just to keep up and it's an ongoing challenge.

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In in my 18 19 years, it seems like there's always more needs than there are funding and and.

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It's a complicated, you know with 40 schools over 4 million square feet, it's a complicated.

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Thing to plan for so well, certainly from our standpoint, as we mentioned a little bit last time,.

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One of the most immediate impacts this has is if the schools are inadequate right and it holds up.

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The ability for plans that are otherwise approved to move forward, and so certainly in the letter.

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That we're going to be issuing it talks about. We take note of the redistricting committee and the.

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Work that they're doing to help free up some of the capacity so that certainly it doesn't.

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Have sort of this throughput problem with what's happening with development in the county and that.

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Sort of thing um and the letter references that certainly, but it also then the next to.

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Last paragraph says after review: the commission finds that the educational facilities master plan.

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As it pertains to physical structure, size and location is consistent with the carroll county.

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Master plan the commission reviewed this plan for consistency with the carroll county master.

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Plan the freedom community comprehensive plan, other applicable county plans, that's the letter.

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That is before us, so I guess with that language. Is there a motion that we um approve this.

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Can we just make the motion then we'll prove it based on what the letter says, I guess so.

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Yeah is that okay, because it's okay, that way it's it's, we know what we're proving it's in.

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The letter and then I'm executing the letter on behalf of the commission's exact, very good.

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Is there a second to that motion? Second, all right, so we have a motion and a second to find that the.

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Educational facilities master plan as it pertains to physical structure, size and.

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Location is consistent with carroll county master plan and we have correspondence that will be.

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Issued consistent with that, is there any further discussion all in favor anyone opposed anyone.

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Good then sounds like it's approved. Thank you. I'm going to execute the letter right now.

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And that'll take care of that. Okay, thank you.

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Thank you. Thank you. Bill.

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Move on to item nine agricultural and.

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Excuse me, agriculture and conservation, zoning text, discussion.

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So mary lane is going to come up and are you going yeah come on bryce um so.

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As you know, we've been discussing having a lot of debate regarding the amendments to.

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The agricultural district and the conservation zoning district we have presented you with the.

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Highlighted um changes that we have amended so far and there's a summary page as well.

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That changes to 158 mainly um and then uh changes to 155 with regard to the adu.

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We have an hour planned for this discussion, where mary will be reviewing um the text as it stands.

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So far, and if there's any questions or changes, you want to propose to be made at this time before we.

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Board it to the commissioners, that's what this is uh for today is to just kind of go through.

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Essentially, you know item by item um what has been recommended so far so again just to review.

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The process and excuse me: do you want to pull up where's this planning commission that pdf pdf.

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um So before you put what the process is, is that you will review the text.

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And make recommendations to the board of county commissioners.

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Our goal is to get through this in approximately three meetings. If we need more, we need more. We.

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Already have some time scheduled with the board of county commissioners, beginning in.

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August for work sessions with with them, as we did with the other districts for commercial.

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Industrial employment, campus and the residential, our hope is to get this through the commissioners.

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Late summer, early fall and be able to go to public hearing and have them adopt whatever.

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Changes they'd like to make before the end of their term, and then that would be completed. We.

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Would have completed this task under this board of county commissioners and reviewed and amended.

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The entire zoning code, as well as parts of the subdivision regulations in chapter 155.,.

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So for our new members, because we have a lot of you- we have been working on this pretty.

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Much since the adoption of the 20 2014 carroll county master plan that was amended in 2019.

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And as well as the freedom community comprehensive plan, as you can see from the timeline here, that's.

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How long this effort's been going on and both of those plans recommended review of the zoning code.

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Itself, updating it modernizing it, making it easier to use simplifying things. That was one of the main.

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Goals that we did with regard to this plan, we staff began work on this with the employment.

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Related districts, the commercial industrial, employment campus. At every point, we worked with.

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The community we worked with stakeholders in the business community as we were developing.

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The commercial districts um we had an internal work group for all of these majors just a minute.

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The this one that the commissioner the board has is in a different language. No, you know, I don't.

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Know I guess what got printed out was probably no it's my bad. I printed it. Okay, it it it's the box.

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Okay, it's not even it's okay, he's dreaming in british, so I'm sure he can read mine's in latin.

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That's okay. I can see the screen, it must be the mock-up.

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Because this is not a good start um yeah I printed that that must have switched over.

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If you could look up on the screen and follow along we'll be fine, thank you.

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Yeah, that's the yeah, I I I I solved that on the powerpoint. I just figured anyway well yeah, okay,.

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Thank you. Thank you. Are those in english think about gibberish? Oh, thank you guys.

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I'm good yeah. I need more interest, I'm good. What else is in latin.

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You could read foreign, I figured wrong law degree. Thank you. um Well, sorry, there for.

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The for the gibberish I apologize um so again. You know we worked through all of.

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Those districts we had multiple work sessions with the commissioners. We also at this time.

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Did rezonings for commercial industrial employment campus because we added new districts so before we.

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Had two commercial districts, business, neighborhood, retail and business general, so a light and a heavy.

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With the plans they recommended three districts, so we did a low, medium and high commercial.

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Districts as well as renaming them renaming the industrial districts as well as adding in a new.

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Employment campus district, so that was really the. I think the heaviest lift for this entire effort.

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Was doing that because not only did we do the text changes, but we had, I think, over 1500 properties in.

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The county that had to change because we no longer had those older districts and we had to go through.

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The process of actual map changes on the rezoning then after we did that we moved right on to as you.

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Know the residential districts which we finished up this time last year, making changes to the text.

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No residential districts were added, but again there were updates to the residential district.

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Changes to some of the calculations for density, especially when it came to age, restricted.

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And then we had a few by request residential rezonings. As you all know, that came through this.

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Body, not every member was here as that moved forward, but many of you were during that time.

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And then that was adopted at the end of 2021 and now we're in 2022 wrapping up the final grouping.

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Of agriculture and conservation districts, as you know, we had a work group that we worked with for.

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Six months, starting in the fall of last year to review what the new practices were for agritourism.

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Other types of allowable uses within the ag and the conservation zone, then we met.

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As our internal concept team- and this is what's been presented to you after some work sessions,.

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As well to get your direction on various items so with that, I'm going to turn it over to mary.

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To go over this information with you, and that should be in your packet. You should have.

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um Like I said, the summary of proposed amendments, as well as the actual.

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Legislation in red line linda, do you mind scrolling down? As I talk it's, not a powerpoint, but.

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Just the you might have to make it bigger because yeah thank you. So, as linda said, you were sent.

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What is a 52-page markup for chapter 158, which is typical, um mr wathers and ms corkner will remember.

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The commercial and industrial, um a lot of it is taking things out, moving them to another section.

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So in some ways, when you take out all those track changes, it comes down to like 30 pages.

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Some of it, it's not quite as extensive as it may seem as far as the number of substantive changes.

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And I prepared this summary of proposed amendments which I won't go over, but for anybody this is on.

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Our website as well, this really points out what the actual changes are, what we consider to be.

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The substantive changes, a lot of other things, are clean up. Consistency things, the zoning.

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Administrator with our other districts, you'll recall, has wanted to change along the way to.

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Match his interpretations of things, so a lot of it is clean up and consistency, and that type of thing.

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But if you don't mind linda going down to page one of the actual chapter, 158.

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We can start moving through it and those of you who did this before it's a.

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Tedious process, but that way we go through each page and even the technical amendments we can.

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Answer questions on them and everybody can get a fuller understanding of what we've done.

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So, just as a start, anything you see underlined is new language. Anything with a strikeout is deleted.

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Language and when you see those little asterisks, it means there's existing text in between.

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So, as always we're starting with the definitions which is chapter, I'm sorry um section, 158.002.

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And some of the most of these definitions are ag and conservation related, but again.

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Because of some changes we've made along the way, there's some that affect all the other districts.

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There should be fewer of those since we've already done the commercial, industrial and.

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Residential districts, so the first change here is um defining agritourism and jim can speak more to.

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This, if you have questions- but this reflects the state definition that I believe was just passed.

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Recently, uh yes, that's correct. um This is something that we have never called out.

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Specifically, we've regulated the things that fall within it in different ways, but we've.

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Created this use agritourism, so if it doesn't fall into another more specific category and it.

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Falls under this definition, it would be considered agritourism. The one thing I would point out since.

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It was sent to you. It has been noted that the word guest farms- I guess on the fourth line down.

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First of all, it's undefined um and second of all, we look at it if guest farms are places.

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Where people come to stay, we look at that as bed and breakfast or camping commercial camping.

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So I would suggest we would suggest that guest farms come out of our definition. We are allowed.

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To take things out of the definition and make it different than the state definition, but that is.

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Something that would be confusing if we left it in, because we are regulating it differently than the.

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Rest of agritourism, so, um with your aqua essence, we could take out guest farms, so guest farms is.

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A is not a defined term, it's not a defined term and just looking it up. It appears to be almost.

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Like what you would expect, the um people coming to stay at other people's farms for overnight.

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Visits and sometimes it is related to learning about the farm and such but.

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We have that under other uses in our code, and we are regulating that more strictly than we would.

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Be regulating just generally agritourism and the problem with going through the text. This way is.

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We'll get into that when we get to the use table, so this is really just the definitions at that at.

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This point so um we're going to try not to jump around too much otherwise we'll miss things, but.

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That is something we'll be discussing more when we talk about the table of uses. Okay.

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The second attached accessory dwelling- this is not. This change is not really speaking to the.

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More controversial topic that we talked about last time that again is further.

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In the um in the draft, this really is just clarifying what the zoning administrator.

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Currently defines as attached dwelling unit, which means it can be separated by a continuous common.

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Wall, rather than there doesn't have to be a door, that's actually not in there currently.

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And also his interpretation of it can be separated by not more than 15 feet of.

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Livable floor area. So that's almost like the breezeway discussion that we had last time.

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This is clarifying it codifying it and forever and ever making jay's life easier.

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The third change: it looks like a new definition, banquet event facility, but really, if you.

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Look down to catering establishment, it came out of the catering establishment.

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Banquet facility use and the reason we're separating it is because.

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Of the issue of country inns, we have gotten rid of country inns, as they are currently defined.

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And we're calling it what it is, which is a banquet and event facility on ag land.

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So we pulled this out, but we wanted catering establishment to be separate because that's not.

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Something you would necessarily want to allow um on ag-zoned land, so that is pretty much the same.

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As what was pulled out of catering establishment, I think we made a couple tweaks to it.

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um I do have a question on that sure, so I have a wedding venue. I just had a question on the license.

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Caterer is that a state license or is it county just people like to bring in their own caterers.

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Sometimes- and I don't know if, like they're licensed in baltimore, county or other counties,.

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That was the one thing I believe that we did add and I'm not sure if we're talking about.

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I I believe it would be I'm going to point to jay jay. You might want to actually yeah.

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Licensed catering facility is licensed by the health department, okay,.

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Thank you, they're inspected by the health department from the state. Yes, should we be more.

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Would it help, I don't think it'd be more specific? A licensed caterer is how it's referred to.

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um The next change is to bed and breakfast the only change we made there is, it's called.

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Bed and breakfast and there was no reference to meals being served. So we put meals, served.

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Daily, just to clarify that um again, stop me along the way, as we move through this.

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Any changes we'd like to make now so that when we get all the way through, we have a complete.

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Draft to present to you at the very end, building height, this is a minor change, and this reflects.

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The this is important because it reflects the building code definition and again. This makes it.

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Easier for the two definitions to be consistent and interpretation, wise catering establishment.

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Again, we took out the banquet facility language, and now it just says food it just.

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A business at which food prepared on the premises may be delivered to another location.

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For consumption, um we have gotten a comment about, should that say maybe or should it say.

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Is do we want do we want a catering establishment to allow pickup? Now again, this doesn't affect the.

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Ag this is in the commercial districts, so we left it pretty flexible with maybe, but um I just wanted.

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To throw it out there, if you don't think that's appropriate for catering establishment to allow.

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Pickup my view is that less government intrusion is probably better and allow businesses to operate.

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More in line with what the market may demand within certain parameters- and this doesn't seem to.

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Be wildly outside of any crazy perimeter allowing somebody to pick up food as opposed to that's my.

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View anybody sees it differently. Okay, we'll leave it as maybe then thank you, um commercial camping.

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Area again, we'll get into a greater discussion on this when we get to the actual regulations, but.

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Just for the definition, the only change we're proposing is the addition of the word cabins.

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Which was suggested by the zoning administrator for clarity? um Excuse me: commercial sawmill,.

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uh We have taken out the um language that says it has to be greater than two acres in size.

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A commercial sawmill is considered an industrial use and there's been a lot of confusion. I believe.

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At the bza and otherwise about what type of operation is being conducted on ag land versus.

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Industrial, so commercial sawmill is currently, I believe, it's permitted in the i2 and conditional.

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In the i1 and that's going to remain we're not changing that what we are suggesting is that.

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Below where it says, commercial, wood processing, a brand new definition that would be conditional.

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We'll see that later in the ag district and that reads an operation which principally processes.

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Branches and logs by chopping, cutting, sawing and slitting to produce firewood for sale, which.

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May include the accessory processing of the wood waste solely produced for the principal processing.

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To create mulch or wood chips- and this is, I think, jim- may want to speak more to the this.

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Is a necessary clarification for the pca, and I will also point out that um we worked with melvin.

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Bale, the chair of the um board of zoning appeals on some of this language to make sure that it.

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Solves some of the problems that they have seen. So that's the principal reason.

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For separating these two out, the more intensive one would still be in the.

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Industrial districts and this less intense one would be in the ag district by conditional use.

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Yeah, just the follow-up on mary. This um issue has been in front of the bza a number of times and.

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They've kind of had this sort of the opinions are all over the place: they're very scatter shot. So.

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This is an attempt to make it more clear, so people know sort of what they can do, what they can't do.

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So they have those sort of uh guard rails uh to follow, not just at the whims of the.

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I seem to remember a longer discussion that we had at some point in the past about this, because.

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Of folks, coming onto the property and and chewing up some trees to make mulch and that sort of thing.

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And whether it constituted a sawmill or whether it where it fell, definitionally and it seemed to be.

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An orphan, basically um and getting inconsistent treatment because of that. What was the text.

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Amendment done years ago to include that okay yeah, so this is all part of that. It's easy! Yes, okay,.

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Good any questions, thank you. The next definition that is deleted in its entirety is country in.

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Again, we are reclassifying that as a banquet event facility you'll see that later on in the text.

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um Because. Partly because it's very confusing that something's called a country and but really is a.

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Major event facility, so um we got rid of that definition altogether and there will.

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No longer be something called a country in, but there will still be event facilities.

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Like you see today, they'll just be called what they are. um Custom was deleted because.

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It's not used in the code, it must have been an old reference, but it's no longer needed.

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When you look at the detached accessory dwelling dwelling that whole line of dwelling related.

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Definitions, there's not changes to most of them; I put them in there, so you could see the different.

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Kinds of dwellings the only changes being made are to single-family dwelling. If you do recommend.

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That, oh, no, this one isn't affected by that. This is just clarification that a single-family dwelling.

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Is a detached building designed or used for residential purposes by residents as a single.

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Dwelling unit, except when including an attached accessory dwelling so that there's no conflict.

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Between the definition and what's actually being allowed, and this new definition of.

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Townhouse dwelling is not a new definition. Townhouse has always been.

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Defined separately, you'll see it's deleted on the bottom of that page. Three.

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But people couldn't find it, so it really all the different kinds of dwellings should be together.

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And it's just a relocation and renumbering. So then we get down to the new definition of food.

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Processing and packing plant this is currently allowed by conditional use in the ag district.

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With slaughterhouse and other similar uses- and it's also um allowed in the eye industrial zones.

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But it's never been defined, so we thought just to be clear, we would define it, and this is I.

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Believe I got this from another code with a few tweaks to it. So it's a pretty standard definition.

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Garden supply center: this is a new definition, but it actually comes out of the section of the code.

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Regarding ag, it's just described, but we're putting it now where it belongs, under definition,.

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Again, so people can find things where they belong and it's just clear and a better code.

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Livable floor area, I believe we talked about this when we talked about accessory dwellings.

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um It's important that that be heated space so that it's clear what we're talking about.

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A special event is only used in the section on signs. That's near the end of the um document.

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So it wasn't necessary to generally define it and it's when we get to that point. Probably two.

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Meetings from now or maybe next meeting, um I can show you where we've put it, but it really only.

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Belongs under signs um townhouse deleted, but not really. It's been relocated and those are all the.

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Changes to the definitions that we found again it's fewer than when we did the other sections.

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Of the code, because we've already gone through and done, some of the more general definitions.

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These ones were really more related to what we were proposing for ag and conservation.

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So before I leave definitions, are there any questions or suggestions.

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Anything you'd like me to look us to look further into before the next meeting.

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I would say you know janice. Last meeting you had a comment that I found interesting about the.

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um Attached dwelling unit and whether or not these are my words- sort of form over substance.

C

Forcing them to have a a climate-controlled space connecting the two and you know some of these may.

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Look nice, some of them, may not. You know we're forcing them to do something.

C

I I found that interesting um and I don't mean to sound clinical about it, because I.

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I I in my heart, I think I agree with what you said. um Does it I just wanted to bring it up.

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To say: do you have any as a resident realtor? Do you have any.

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More thoughts on that. um Well, I I do think that what I had said when we were talking about.

N

It would have to be attached and it could be like a long run. Basically, I think um it's not. You know.

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As we're looking at how things look for the properties, it's definitely not the best look.

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Out there, um and but I don't don't know how to limit that, because it's personal property rights.

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So um certainly when somebody goes to sell something years down the road, they may feel.

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Sorry that they had done this long line there, but um that's their problem in the future. So I think.

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If, if that's what it takes to make the attached work, then I think they're, absolutely okay, yeah.

N

All right, I would say my only question is back on the guest farms is because I've visited umpteen. I.

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Was on the state ag commission for six years and they have a we visit a lot of smaller.

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Diverse farms and a lot of them have you know, summer or educational internships that live with.

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Them in the house, because they're working there on the farm and that's like you, know a lot of.

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These smaller, especially organic farms, you know they need a lot of help and that's one of the.

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Things people will give up their summer to come out to work on the farm, to learn how to do that.

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You know city people a lot of times, but not always city people, people that want to learn something.

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A different way, so, of course you know, I know we're just in definitions and we have to see.

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What it looks like back behind, but I wouldn't want to limit the ability of people to have guests live.

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In their houses that are interns or whatever I don't know how that would be described, but yeah.

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um Could we look more into our own definition of guest farms? That's going to preclude the.

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Commercial camping and the bed and breakfast we're we're just worried that guest farms is too.

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Expansive yeah, I agree I hadn't thought of what you just mentioned. Maybe we could look into I'm.

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Tailoring it down to that or we could talk with jay if that's necessary, because I'm not I'm not.

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Sure it is yeah, are we thinking? Guest farms is something more along the lines of in in your.

C

Head is guest farm, something more along the lines of you, something you would find on vrbo exactly.

N

Is that what you're thinking right? Well, there's those hip cams that we were talking about? That's.

E

How we were interpreting guest farm versus okay- yours is more of a professional right capacity, so.

E

I think that's that's much different than what, but even if we took it out, it could still fall.

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Under agri-tourism, because that agritourism, isn't definition, isn't exclusive, I mean other.

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Things could fit into there we're not saying not including guest farms. Okay, so there could.

A

Be a couple different ways to deal with it. One is as you are, which is strike it out completely.

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The other is leave it in, but define it in a way that captures what matt's talking about good look.

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At those therefore see if I can find anything, okay, um but jay did you have a comment or yeah.

L

Narrow it down a little better okay, it seems like something that, if we're going to leave in, we ought.

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To define it's an opportunity for us to define: if the state doesn't do it, then we can define it in.

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Ways that make sense for the county- and I think it is confusing, because um I believe it was chris.

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Hyde brought it to my attention. I'd read over that definition, a bunch of times I hadn't even seen it.

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I just didn't even know what that was, so I think we definitely need to clarify if we're.

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Going to leave it in well, I think if you don't mind taking enough comments and then.

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Figuring out how to deal with it within the code, but that seems like something that's important.

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To our community- and we certainly don't want to have a code that seems to prohibit that absolutely.

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All right, okay, the next section that begins on page four of the struck, struck out version.

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um Is distance requirements, and you may have noticed today when.

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Linda was talking about the bza and commercial kennels and some other uses.

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These are very important. Certain uses, mostly industrial uses, have mandatory.

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With the possibility of variance distance requirements from commer or from residential.

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Properties for the obvious reason of providing the necessary separation from the impacts of those.

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Uses so this section has always been in, it looks pretty marked up, but it really um anything you.

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See, that's not underlined is existing industrial use. That falls in the category and, as you see in.

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A it defines what it has to be separated from that addition of three on adjoining lots of three acres.

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Or more minimum separation, distance of at least 300 feet from dwellings is required. That was in.

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The code it was inadvertently in the last go-round taken out. We really need to put that back in.

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So that I would not be considered a substantive change, um so it's I believe it's 200, yes, 200.

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Feet if, if it's um cited in the use table that you have to have your distance from.

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And then, as you go through b c d and e, it's 400 600 800 and a thousand for the more intense uses.

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So that's the way this is structured. um Most of these are not new separation requirements that.

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We're imposing or suggesting be imposed they are currently in the ag and conservation districts.

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Again, relocated all to one section, so everything is where it belongs. So I'll just go through these.

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Briefly, there really aren't many changes from that. Again looks like changes, but really relocations.

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um The one thing we are suggesting is for commercial kennels for more than 10 dogs and.

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Veterinary facilities in the ag and conservation districts, a um 400 foot separation- that's the two.

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Times the 200 foot um again, the it appears the bca has been seeing a lot of commercial.

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Kennel cases lately, for whatever reason and there there are potential conflicts with the residents.

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Near them, so I mean we felt that this was a necessary separation requirement. Again it.

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Is subject to a variance but as you saw today, the bca did deny one of the commercial kennels.

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I don't think it was for this reason. I believe it was the site size, but still um it gives them.

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The leeway to do that, but this is set in stone, at least as far as being suggested.

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Number three commercial swimming pools and golf ranges in the agricultural district.

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That is in the current code, but it's been asked: should that also apply to the conservation.

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District is there any reason if you have a commercial pool or golf course in the ag district.

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I'm sorry in the conservation district you still shouldn't have the separation.

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Requirement, I would say you should I think it's probably that we just copied it over.

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From the ag district and it hadn't been in the conservation district, so um almost anybody has a.

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An objection to that. I think we should put that in the conservation district as well.

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um Again, let me see here nothing as you move through again is new. So ask me any questions if.

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You have any on them. They really were just again taken from the ag district. The old ag district.

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Section um I have a question on it's number 54. um electric generating power plant not including.

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Solar facilities, the solar facilities, does it have setback requirements somewhere else that.

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They have their own section. Yes, they do. This was just to clarify, because technically you.

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Could argue a solar facility is an electric generating facility. So, yes, that was just a.

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Clarification, but yes, they do have their own requirements. Okay, thank you when, when we look at.

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The text as a whole, the the number of times we mention.

C

Repair equipment, repair, storage of equipment, which, I would think is important to add.

C

Tank storage of petroleum, those kinds of things I I'm I'm again mad, I'm asking the question.

C

Is this is runoff from that kind of stuff? Is that important to you I mean.

C

And, and how do we, how do we manage that as a county when we, when we put this next to.

C

A working farm is it leaching or anything like that, that comes from those facilities. Well,.

L

One of the things with those uses when they're approved they're, subject to a site plan approval.

L

So they have to go through our site plan process and that's all looked at through that process.

L

Yeah, okay yeah, like soil conservation, has to approve the storm water and all.

H

That all that runoff and okay, so they're, all looked at once after they're approved. Okay.

L

Thank you. We use a phrase, sometimes called bulk requirements. What does that mean exactly.

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It is defined, we defined it. I think when we did the commercial industrial, we changed the deck.

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um Yes, bulk requirements are the dimensions relating to the size of structures or uses.

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Including the lot area lot with height and yard requirements, so a couple years ago we added height.

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Into that, but it's basically the yard, the area, the lot width requirements and then it usually.

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Relates the setback and things like that? Yes, okay, it's just a phrase that to me: what's the.

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Word onomatopoeia: it doesn't sound like what it means to me. Bulk requirements sound like we should.

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Be talking about tanks, but we're not. I agree I if we could think of a better word that wouldn't.

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Mess up every other section of the code and then we're already calling something.

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Required, I don't know the consumers would, or you know just the average user would understand that.

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They need to be looking for bulk requirements when they're looking for areas and setbacks and.

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That sort of thing- so that's something I don't think, is particularly user friendly, but it's just.

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Tradition and what we're doing now- and this will be coming before you just for informational.

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Purposes we're almost finished. We have done an illustrated um like a citizens illustration guide.

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To the definitions in the code, abigail rogers on our staff has been working on that and it's it's.

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Almost done, we've worked with jay and anastasia on it and I think that will help people we'll.

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Have it on their web page and our webpage, and if, if you know to look for it, if you know that you.

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Don't know what bulk requirements are. This is part of the problem. Then I think it will help because.

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It's visual excellence. Well, that's good! Thank you! um So, back to the distance requirements, there's.

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Really again very few changes we did separate. If you look on page five airfield from airport.

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An airfield which is defined it's just a um it's a strip of land, that's used for landing, your air.

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Plane but airport is obviously the more extensive or more intense use that has the.

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Five times distance requirement, so they used to be classified together and we've separated them out.

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Other than that, I can't think of anything to point out to you.

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About these again they're, mostly in the code but now they're all in one place,.

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um So the next section that begins with temporary and seasonal uses.

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The good news is this is all existing language. It was pulled out of a different section and.

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Put here really where it belongs, logically more so, there are no changes to um this listing of.

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Temporary and seasonal uses, it was just in a different section of the code and and you.

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Did work on this you'll recall when we did. um I believe it was residential some. Oh, the part about.

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Some things added, I'm trying to oh the self-contained portable storage units.

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Were put in here with the regulations and the commissioners worked on that made some changes.

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But again it's all, as was just adopted, just put in a different section. So unless anybody wants.

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To make any changes to to that section, it's really just all existing language.

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um The next section on um page seven deleted in its entirety: 158.055 and jay. Do you want to.

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Explain why we took this out that was originally put back into the ordinance back in 2000.

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When we had different standards like in-law apartments and everything else, and at that time,.

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In-Law apartments couldn't be rented to anybody else, but family members.

L

This section was put in at that time to basically state that, yes, now you can rent them and they.

L

Become part of that attached accessory drawing um it's no longer needed it. It's you know.

L

They're all rented- and it's stated that way: we don't have pool houses or in-law apartments.

L

Anymore, it's all attached accessory dwellings. So it's a section. That's really no longer needed.

C

Thank you. You know matt talking about this before the meeting uh briefly.

C

This section kind of struck me as something that that might be able to be revised.

C

If the concern in the agricultural community is that detached.

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Dwelling units will become rental properties and that that's the general concern that we're.

C

Hearing back, maybe something like this, you know in the code would would alleviate the.

C

Fear from the ag community- well, this right here makes it so you can rent. Is that yes,.

C

Yeah, I'm saying listen by taking this out. What's going to happen when we go back and do it.

H

If we allow detached accessory dwelling units again, what is that going to.

H

How's that going to be looked at that would be looked at as something being rentable just like.

L

These are the intent, was um back in 2000 to make things that you couldn't use before give them a.

L

Wider breath, so if we approve a detached accessory dwelling on a lot, that's not subdivided. They would.

L

Be looked at the same way that you know if once you're done with them, if you want to rent it out.

L

You know we have no way of enforcing it anyway, all right, so this there's no really sense in having it.

L

In there, when we can't enforce it, so it's you know, it'd be looked at the same way. We don't.

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Control rental properties in the county. We don't have a list, we don't make people register if they.

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Have a rental or not so, there's no way to really know who's, renting and who's, not renting, and the.

G

Reality is even when we didn't have, or we had this role they did. I mean it was pretty often found.

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Okay, so if there's no comment on that and again we'll be getting.

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Into the much bigger topic of the accessory dwelling units later in the text, not today.

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um So the next section is the existing 158.070, the agricultural district.

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What we've done here is what we've done with all the other districts over the last six years.

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We've tried to make the purpose reflect more the master plan and designation purpose. This is a very.

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Well written purpose, but it it is probably not something you typically see in a zoning.

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Code, the way it's so descriptive and everything it's more policy. So really, if you turn the page.

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The new purpose of the agricultural district, which is from our adopted plans, both adopted plans.

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Is to provide locations generally outside of the designated growth areas where agriculture.

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Is the primary land use residential development potential is generally limited.

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To one single family or two family dwelling for every 20 acres, commercial and industrial uses.

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Are limited to agribusiness agritourism and those uses intended to serve the agricultural industry.

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And residents of the area, while maintaining the character of the surrounding countryside, no water.

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And sewer service is planned to these areas and we've gotten comments when we've done the other.

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Ones that you know how restrictive we we've tried to put generally in where it's necessary and how.

I

Well, what about this in the land use table? And what about that? This is not a regulatory statement.

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It is the purpose, so you would always go to the other regulations, the land, the use table. Other.

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Additional regulations- this is merely intended to describe the district and what you will see later.

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So yes, there will be exceptions to this. There were when we were writing the residential.

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Adopted plans and then no changes to we are keeping that agriculture is the preferred use in.

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The ag district, all agricultural operations shall be permitted at any time, including the operation.

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Of farm machinery and no agricultural use shall be subject to restriction because it interferes with.

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Other uses permitted in the district and then um talking about the right to farm required so that.

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Is staying in and then the next I don't know how many pages are. That's good, we're making all this.

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Progress um principal permitted uses, it simply refers you to the use table which is 158.071.01.

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The way we've done all the other districts so finally, after this, the code will really look.

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More cohesive, the way it's structured when we've done it, this piecemeal way.

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It really probably was the only way to get through it. It was just such a big chunk of everything.

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But if you look at the code today, this is still written this way and the other.

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Districts have a use table, so this will be good to get it all into a use table.

A

Before we go on just quickly the purpose and intent back here on page seven and eight.

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Did you write this as a new.

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Document, or is this something you pulled out of the master plan- master plan? Okay? Yes, I believe.

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It's word for word: I'd have to look it's pretty similar yeah we might, I might have. We might.

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Have put the words generally in again, because we received that comment when we were doing.

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Other sections of the code, but no it's exactly what was adopted by you, approved by you and.

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Adopted by the commissioners throughout very good, thank you. Does anybody have any um mr huff? Do you.

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Have any changes you'd like to see to the purpose of the agricultural district or is it okay? Okay,.

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um So that takes us all the way, then, to page 19 all that struck out language, that again.

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You'll see later on in a different format and now we're on the conservation district.

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We did not delete anything out of it because it actually matched pretty well with the.

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Master plan, but we did add the language, commercial and industrial development should not generally.

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Be located in these areas and again it's in the plans and residential development shall.

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Gen should generally be limited to one single family detached dwelling per three acres.

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No water and sewer service area is, I'm sorry is planned to these areas. Should we.

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Looking at page seven, where we just were agricultural district, we have purpose and intent.

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Yes, we should do that. Should this be purpose and intent. Also, thank you.

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um We did that with, for whatever reason, with all the other districts.

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We started doing it, so we should keep doing just for consistency. Yes, nothing else. Thank you.

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um Again, it refers now to the table of uses which is 158.071.01.

N

Which takes us all that deleted language and gets us all the way to page 25. um linda. This may be a.

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Good place to stop till the next meeting, because this is such a huge chunk and we will also go.

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Back when we talk about the table of uses to that presentation, linda made several weeks back about.

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Remainders, because it does affect how you go through these uses, if you do want to limit some.

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Of these uses on remainders only we'll go over that presentation again at the beginning of the.

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Next meeting and move right into the table of uses- and I think that's a good starting point.

E

For today yep, I agree, thank you very much so other than the follow-up on guest farms.

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Is there anything you'd like to see before the next meeting that we talked about today.

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That we've covered just today- yes, um not for me.

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All right, we have earned our way to a recess and we're going to take it so.

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Why don't we take uh about 10 minutes we're back after 10.? Thank you.

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Call the meeting back to order and I apologize. I failed to open up uh for public comment on the.

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Last item- and I understand we have a member of the public that would like to comment.

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And so with that, uh I would welcome you to the microphone if you set your.

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Name and address, we would welcome your comments.

O

Sure it's uh kevin beaver. I live in the westminster city.

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Westminster city area out of route, 31 and reason, I'm here, I'm probably here a little premature.

O

Because the uh you haven't quite gotten to the area and from what mary is telling me, it may.

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Not even be that your area that the area I want to talk about is going to be discussed that much.

O

By you all, but I want to let you run into an issue that I have have come across and it was.

O

We have a a 70-acre remainder property with 70 acres of farmland, no buildings.

O

And we've been approached by solar companies to um you know, put put panels on 20 of those.

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70 acres and when we got into the details and looked at the community solar program, the.

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The one sticking point was: yes, you can get income from these solar panels for 25 years 35 years, but.

O

To do that, you tie up the 50 acres in in ag preservation, but it's permanent. It's.

O

It's forever, whereas the solar panels are for 25 to 35 years and then they go and.

O

When we we looked at it and you know, there's other family members involved, and you know that.

O

They kind of plan on having this this land for, for a long time and they've been happy.

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To just rent the land to a farm for 35 years, so there's not really any.

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Interest but but we listened to the solar panel people and the thought was well. That would be.

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It would be a nice green thing, you could do there'd be some income involved, but.

O

You're not sure you want to lock up the that that land, the other 50 acres permanently and unless.

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You were you know, unless you knew you want to do it, you want to do the whole 70 acres or whatever.

O

So I just wanted to my thought was, and I don't I don't even know that it's possible now after.

O

Talking with ag preservation, but if you could, I think, we'd be happy to put it in ag preservation.

O

For the period it was, the solar panels were there, but once the solar panels were removed and.

O

It went back to farmland you'd like to have the uh easement off of there as well, and then.

O

It goes back to okay, 70 acres. Can't you know, do we want to do anything with it then, because you just.

O

Don't you can't predict and there's a there's other farms involved that could get merged and.

O

This and that- and you just can't predict, what's going to happen, you don't know what the zoning's going to be 30 years from now, let alone, but to tie that up permanently just seemed to be a.

O

A negative, so I wanted to, I sent a letter to you all it's in there somewhere and.

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Although it just came in friday, so you may not have had a chance to to read it, but I just wanted.

O

To kind of explain what was what was going on and then I called ag preservation, they said. Well, you.

O

Know the good thing is you, can you can now put your remainder into ag preservation and they will.

O

uh They will, you know he said it doesn't pay as well as it would. If you had a developable property.

O

And the thing I thought about, there is well that's something more for the commissioners to think.

O

About because it's the county preservation fund, but if you, if you are opening up, you know down.

O

The road you may open up more farmland to solar because of the state wanting to have more solar.

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Out there, you may have to also think about the it may affect the values of what you offer for.

O

The for the ag preservation because you're going to give that land us another purpose. You know that.

O

It could that it could be so I just wanted to make you aware of those type of things and just just be.

O

Aware of it, so thank you. Thank you. If I'm a little bit premature since she just stopped at remainders.

A

Thank you appreciate your comments. Yes, thank you very much.

A

All right, we'll move on to um item 11, which is the annual report. It's an introduction.

E

Yeah so good morning um today, we are here to introduce you to this year's annual planning.

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Report um again for our new members, we are required by maryland law to do this, as it says,.

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Annually and basically it's to give a reporting of what is in the development pipeline.

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From the subdivision site plan process.

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For the county and the municipalities- and we do that on behalf of the municipalities, to what has.

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Been pulled for use and occupancy permits, which is the very end of that development pipeline.

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And that's how we actually develop our population numbers after the census, so we have a decennial.

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Census every 10 years that gives you the actual, accurate accounting, but we're also responsible for.

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Estimating what the population is in carroll county and we do that by pulling use and occupancy.

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Permits monthly and updating our demographic numbers with some other multipliers within that.

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To come up with what a guesstimate is of what the population is for carroll county, and so we do that.

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We pull those numbers monthly, we do that so fire and ems have updated numbers also.

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The liquor board, those are important numbers for them as well, so this information is used.

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For that purpose, as well and also to report to the state so with that um tiffany fawcett put.

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Together the document you should have a hard copy, do they have a hard copy in front of them.

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Of the document this is just the draft it will be approved once you all give your approval next.

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Next meeting for this, but again this is all the information that's required by the state.

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And we do it on behalf of the municipalities as well, so with them and tiffany go ahead and just.

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Give you um what's in the report the highlights. Thank you good morning, good morning um and linda.

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Went over what I would have been talking about here, so that's fantastic required by the state for.

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The report and all the elements that she mentioned are also there we'll be going through those.

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And that this is a it's not required, and it's not typical of jurisdictions in maryland. However, this.

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Is the one the report that we do is a multi-agency collaborative effort and includes information from.

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Carroll county, as well as all the municipalities, um and it should be as linda also pointed out,.

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The development related activities are to be consistent with the local adopted plans and.

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Should implement the 12 state planning visions as well? So we'll start with pages two through eight.

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With new plans and plan amendments and that's going to include maps one through five as well.

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There was only one new plan, and that was sykesville who completed and adopted their 10-year.

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Update of the comprehensive plan, they call that vision, 2030 that can be found on their website.

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And then the plan amendments were all to the water and sewer master plan that became effective.

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As part of the 12, um the spring 2021 amendment cycle last year, and these amendments pertain.

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To the town of manchester and the freedom area and those can be seen on maps one through five.

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Next, we'll move to pages nine through thirteen site plans and subdivisions approved and that.

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Will include tables one through four, as well as map six, so last year the total.

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Residential site plans and subdivisions approved was for 103 new lots. The county made up.

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34 of those new lots and the municipalities, westminster and tonytown made up the remaining 69.

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For approved, non-residential site plans and subdivisions, there was a total of 256 point. 15.

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Acres and the county made up 152.98 acres of that with westminster, hampstead mount airy, sykesville.

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And union bridge making up the other 103.17 acres and that's displayed in tables one through four.

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And then you can also see those site plans and subdivisions approved, mapped on map six.

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This is a 10-year trend showing that approved site plans and subdivision residential development.

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Since 2012 there was a large uptick at the beginning of that between 2012 and 2014.

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Mary had looked into that last year and it looked like there was just some strong development during.

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Those three years that was covered and then it has declined since then, with a small uptick. This.

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Year and let's just be clear, this is not the use in occupancy, so these are not necessarily built.

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Correct these are approved subdivisions and site plans only, and it does not include the.

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Municipalities in that- and this is the same but for non-residential- approved development.

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Again that one uptick last year, mary had looked into that, and it looked to be one particular.

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Project that was contributing a lot highly. There are the num. Are the numbers, the number of units.

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In that are part of that, I assumed this is acres. I apologize. This is, this is acres? Can.

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You back up one slide, please absolutely, and this is the number of lots number of lots. Okay,.

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Yes, residential is done by lots, although we'll put, in parentheses, that how many acres and then.

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The non-residential is done by acreage. Thank you sorry about that. Yes,.

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Okay pages 14 through 17, we have the zoning map amendments and that.

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Also includes tables five and six, as well as maps, seven and eight.

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In table well hold on, I don't have to do that again, even though I just said what which table.

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It was table five shows the 19 rezonings for 2021. 18 of those 19 rezone properties were part of the.

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Carroll county by request, comprehensive rezoning. They became effective in january.

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So that's how they were for last year and the one is a mixed use.

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District zone over a property in mount airy map, seven displays all of those rezonings.

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For the annexations there were four total, including two in manchester and.

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One in hampstead and one in sykesville those can be seen on table six and on map eight.

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Next, we have pages 18-23 the zoning text, amendments amendments to pfa, priority funding.

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Boundaries, new schools, changes, transportation, changes to adequate public facility ordinances and.

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Changes to park facilities and includes table seven so for the zoning text amendments on pages.

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18 to 19, they include the revisions to to to local ordinances affecting future development.

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In the county that was the solar on ag remaining portions and self storage in the i1 of sustainable.

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Communities hampstead had changes to zoning definitions, restricted industrial zoning text.

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Historic district zoning text, general business text and text concerning accessory dwelling units.

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Sorry accessory use buildings and structures and mount airy had changes or amendments for.

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Development rights and responsibilities, agreement, adequate public facilities.

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Within the mixed use, district and westminster had solar energy facilities use as permitted or.

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Special exception added they added definition and definition of satellite automobile storage.

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And allow, as a special exception, use and allow for one year extension to an approved site plan.

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And just again for our new members, so again, our realm is just within the county itself.

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The municipalities have their own local lane, use and zoning authority.

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So these are separate amendments that were done in the municipalities individually.

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So there were no changes to pfa boundaries. There were no new schools or additions.

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Changes to roadway networks primarily um were system maintenance and local in nature, and those.

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Can be seen on table seven and westminster amended the water and sewer allocation policy and master.

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Distribution chart and that's uh for the adequate public facilities ordinance that they have.

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Park facilities can be seen, are described at pages 21 through 23, and also have images associated with.

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Them for the county, they complete the county, completed a an 18. Sorry, an 18 acre expansion.

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Of deer park, the majority of westminster memorial park and added another soft launch in detour, the.

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County in cooperation with union bridge completed a new kayak soft launch at little pike, creek.

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New windsor constructed their 201 main street park. Sykesville constructed a new splash pad.

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At millard cooper park and westminster upgraded to houma farm boulder park with a new playground.

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Pages 31-32 are the building permits issued in 2021 can also be seen on table 16 and map.

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10. table 16 shows us 597 total building permits issued in 2021. This table 16 shows.

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Both residential and non-residential building permits issued last year inside and outside.

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The priority funding areas as well as inside and outside the growth areas last year for residential.

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Building permits issued, there were 68.3 percent of them were inside the priority funding areas.

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And for non-residential 7.7 of the 597 issued were inside priority funding areas and the.

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Rest are also within the growth areas and, what's outside the growth areas, which are similar numbers.

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And those can be displayed on map 10 on page 32.

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Pages 33 through 35 are for new use and occupancy certificates issued.

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We refer to them as uno's. Typically.

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Total use and occupancy certificates issued last year was 526 table. 18 shows new residential.

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And non-residential use and occupancy certificates issued inside and outside.

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Priority funding areas and inside and outside the growth areas of the 526 total issued 74.5.

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Of them were residential inside the priority funding areas and 1.9 percent were non-residential.

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Inside the priority funding areas and again, the growth areas numbers are similar.

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A map of those can be seen on page 35 in map 11 for the new use of occupancies issued.

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When I looked at that map, I'm just going to side note here when I looked at that map, it's very it's.

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A little misleading because the dots just look to be everywhere and it does not look to be 526.

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And so seeing those in priority funding areas is a little difficult. So I did this little bump.

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Out here, to kind of show that so tinytown had 155 last year, and so when you're looking at tinytown.

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And you look at the dots they're, just really one on top of the other and that's what ends.

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Up happening is these clusters, so it's hard to see in the entire map, but you can see when we do that.

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So another 10-year trend this year, showing I mean this time showing the residential uno.

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Certificates county-wide: this does include municipalities this time.

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And again, um there was that 155 in tawny town, which might include you know, might be part of.

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That bump up right there, they see um this year or last year and oh sorry, wrong button.

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And then we have the non-residential use and occupancy certificates county-wide again it.

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Includes the municipalities- and this is the least we've seen in the last 10 years- is that 10.

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Pages 37 through 41 are for development capacity analysis. It includes tables 20 through 24 maps, 12.

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And 13, and also we refer to this typically as the building land inventory. So when we refer to the.

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Capacity, the development capacity analysis as bli. It's it's for that, not that we don't know.

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That would be dca so for the total existing and potential developable.

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Residential lots: we have existing units, total 65 718 55 of that our existing dwelling units.

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Inside the pfas and 45 are outside the pfas for the potential lots. That's future developable lots.

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There's a total of 19 443 lots with 40 of that potential being inside the priority funding areas.

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And 60 being outside the priority funding areas again residential being done in lots and the next.

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We'll do non-residential and that'll be in acres, so let's just pause on the slide for a moment.

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So a couple of things with this particular slide and build a bulling inventory for those of you.

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That aren't familiar with the process and what we do is we look at the zoning district.

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And then we look at restrictions on a particular property. We look if there's any environmental.

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Constraints, we look at buildable portions of the property. We look at steep slopes. Things like that.

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Now we're looking at water and sewer, which I say that because we didn't really do that before and.

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I'll get into that a little bit um we're considering septic tears, which has not been.

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Done in the past, so we are looking at a lot of the different policy we've been working with chris.

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Hein, his team of gis they're, the ones who maintain the buildable land inventory and so now that we've.

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Adopted the new residential districts, specifically, we wanted to go back and really reevaluate how.

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This buildable land inventory is being done um so with that we are including everything outside of.

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The water and service sewer service area 7 lots max. That's all you can get because of the septic.

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Tiers legislation- that's all you're allowed to subdivide, doesn't matter what your zoning is.

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That was not really being taken into consideration before so it's kind of a false assumption of.

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How many new lots could be developed in some ways, so that's being taken into consideration.

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We also have a lot of land believe it or not. That is zoned r40 out of the growth areas, and you can.

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Never achieve that. So if you had 100 acres, you can't get 100 lots you're only going to get seven.

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So there was a lot of kind of an overestimation in some ways. The other thing that we did with.

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Buildable land inventory, which we had not done before, is since we um have districts that allow.

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Residential age, restricted units in the commercial, um as well as that formula of three and a half.

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Maximum dwelling units per acre in the residential we recalculated for that we had not done that.

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Before so, um we're can some of the residential that's in the commercial districts to a certain.

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Percentage and that's in the c3 and in the employment campus as well as looking at the.

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Formula for the age restricted of the three and a half deus per acre. So what's interesting in all of.

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That is, the development capacity in carroll. County went down by seven or eight thousand.

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Units so accounting for tiers accounting for the potential lots inside the growth areas and inside.

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The municipalities before we are hovering as a mid-level total of about 26 000, future developable.

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Units in carroll county to around 19, 000 or so units. Now this is an absolute there's, a lot of.

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Other variables that we just can't take into account such as perkability and things like that.

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um The other thing we're also including in this which we had not done before, is landlocked parcels.

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Meaning that a parcel is surrounded by land that may not necessarily have direct road frontage.

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Access, but what we are seeing are easements that are happening from the main road into those.

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Landlocked parcels, so actually this includes more land opportunities, but now with really including.

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The tiers um and looking at how development should be distributed with infrastructure and without.

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Infrastructure we've lessened by about seven or eight thousand unit potential in the account.

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I think this is a much better um and much more accurate development potential um for the county.

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This is an introduction today right, so we have a chance to read this yeah you're, going to have time.

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To read this over so when we meet again, you can review um our duty is to have this to the state.

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By july 1- um and this only has to be certified by the planning commission and then we will give.

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A presentation to the commissioners about what was reported sometime in july, so yeah.

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She'll have another opportunity to look at this and dive into the materials and ask questions.

P

Can I just for clarification definition? I guess the municipal growth area is that within the.

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Municipalities, okay, so it's so the municipal growth area and so not to give a whole history.

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Carol carroll county planning, the carroll county historically, has had what we've called.

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Designated growth areas and those designated growth areas have surrounded municipalities.

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And then in the mid 2000s, the state then required that municipalities designate.

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Their ultimate annexable or corporate limit area where they feel like they would ultimately expand.

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You because they're not going to expand to take over the whole county right or come and meet one another. What can they reasonably expand to and meet a supply demand test? So what is.

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The demand and what is their ability to supply that demand with services such as trash pickup.

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Water service sewer service, road maintenance, that sort of thing, so um the municipal growth area.

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Is in the county boundary outside the corporate limits, but where they, the municipality, envision.

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The ultimate corporate limit to expand you. So when you see annexations come through under.

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Maryland law, those annexation requests cannot go beyond the municipal growth area, boundary.

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um For designated growth here since now, we've kind of switched more around the municipalities to the.

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Designated growth I mean to on the municipal growth area. We really only have two designated.

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Growth theories that are well beyond the corporate limit extent and that's the finsburg area, which is.

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Really just that commercial corridor of 640 acres, as well as the um greater freedom area so beyond.

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Likes those corporate limits and beyond their area that they would like to annex is then the balance.

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Which is the freedom growth area, so any kind of development or planning outside of the municipal.

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Municipality would not fall under the municipalities, planning and zoning correct.

E

When I'm reading this, I just right, except for I would say this, um you know they we do work with.

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Them to plan outside their corporate limits for the areas that they plan on annexing, so that way.

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When they annex- and you see us come through with annexation, requests, there's an understanding of.

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What they're going to be annexing typically, how many acres it'll be annexing with the future land.

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Use category um that they would be moving into, which would be then their zoning request as well.

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So we know about zoning waivers and things like that too at that time and if everything matches.

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Up and that's what you all review and what you would be commenting on, especially too, if the.

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Annexation, zoning and future land use request is different and I think we've actually seen.

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That recently come up in some annexations than what what their intent is um when they.

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Do the annexation two just to follow on mr kane's question? Maybe it's a good time.

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It's probably not fair to ask this, but I'll ask it anyway, and you can decline.

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We're also talking about pfa or priority funding areas, correct.

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Do you mind just giving up sure 30 second yeah lecture on how that relates to the growth areas.

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So dga and municipal growth areas, so the municipal growth there's actually a state definition. That's.

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Something that the state requires um local jurisdictions that have corp have.

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Incorporated districts within their boundaries to have worked out that municipal growth area.

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Boundary um is mutually agreed upon between the town and the county um for the areas that.

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We both jointly feel would be appropriate to be in the corporate limits in the future, so that.

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That's one set of laws we'll put that to the side. Priority funding areas is legislation that came.

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Out in 1997, and was kind of a carrot and stick approach for growth management that they.

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The state incentivizes development within the priority funding areas by providing.

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Additional funding sources for development projects outside of that the state deters that.

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And I'll give an example with schools, for instance, so mr king came forward this morning to discuss.

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The educational facilities master plan and if a new school were to be built in carroll, county.

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And let's say it's outside of the priority funding area.

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The state would not, unless there's extraordinary circumstances,.

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Help provide funding for that school. They want to see things developed in the priority funding area.

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They have us the county and the municipalities do metrics about what is development in the pfa and.

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What is out of the pfa the goal is the state would like to see at least or around 80 percent of your.

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Future development happen within priority funding areas and 20 outside of those priority funding.

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Areas and priority funding errors are areas that are defined by state law that have to meet.

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Max a minimum density of three and a half dwelling units per acre or be commercial or industrially.

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Zoned and have water and sewer service things that don't meet, that criteria are not considered.

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Priority funding areas, and is it accurate to say that there's a fair amount of overlap between the.

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Growth areas and the priority funding areas very much so because we started out since we've been.

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Planning since 1964 with those designated growth here so in some ways we've had built-in pfas.

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And for the most part, they are one in the same where we have infrastructure, where.

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We do not have infrastructure and we be in the greater county, including municipalities,.

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Those are not considered priority funding areas and we may still be focusing development there.

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But that infrastructure you're not going to be able to achieve um the planned development.

P

Thanks for bringing it up and luke and stephen there's part of your exam questions as you go.

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Through your meeting? Yes, sorry for the long explanation but yeah, but it's a good refresher.

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For all of us, honestly, absolutely and when we have members of the community come in and talk.

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About you know, carroll county has an agricultural core and a history, and all of that these things.

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Are all to me at least very important, because we're focusing most of the time on development.

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In designated growth areas, trying to preserve as much as possible the character of the agricultural.

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Areas yeah anyway, that's the that's a 30 000 foot view. So thanks thanks for that, we've really.

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Gone around around the barn here on your presentation, but we appreciate it fantastic.

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It's really good, um and just for clarification are the growth areas uh designated as part of the.

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Master plans they're part of the comprehensive plan- is that yes, true, okay, yes, comprehensive.

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Plans and updates are the only way that those get changed. Okay. Thank you all right.

B

Similar um this is existing and potential developable non-residential acreage.

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Total existing developed non-residential acreage is 5 000.

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39 sorry acres, eighty-one percent of that being inside the priority.

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Funding areas, and so that's the 77 percent, is in the um mga's or the the growth areas.

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And 23 percent outside the growth areas, with 19 percent outside of the priority funding.

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Areas for the potential: that's future developable non-residential acreage. There's a total of 3514.

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Acres, 47 percent of that being inside the pfas and 13 percent being outside the growth area, numbers.

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Are slightly different, with 81 percent being inside the growth areas and 19 being outside.

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Agricultural land preservation information is from pages 42 to 43 and include tables 25 and.

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26 as well as map 14. for 2021, the agricultural land preservation activity included, 200 2, 384.

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Acres, including 22 farms, preserved of agricultural land since 1979 we're at 76.5.

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Acres of land preserved of the 100 000 acre goal for agricultural use in carroll county seven.

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Million eight hundred sixty nine thousand nine hundred sixteen dollars was committed last year to.

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Agricultural preservation in fiscal year, 2021 for um with the county, contributing 66 percent of that.

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I'm not sure if you have the statistic, if you want to go on one more slide, I'm just curious.

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If you did that one more okay, um so go back up so with that just an interesting fun fact.

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We are well outpacing development with ag preservation and so kind of going back to that.

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Party funding area is one of the programs that was done statewide as the incentive to keep pace.

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With development pressure that was happening in the late 90s when that priority funding area.

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Legislation came out was two-pronged approach, develop within your priority funding areas.

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Then designate your rural legacy areas and the state would provide funding for these areas for.

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You to do agricultural easements, um and you can see in carroll county the bulk of it's to the west.

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In our little pipe creek rural legacy area and then to the northeast is our upper patapsico rural.

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Legacy area, as well as our priority preservation area. So these are all funding programs from the.

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State and the idea was to keep pace with the development pressure that was happening in.

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The 90s and early 2000s, I think, carroll county we're preserving 10 times more land than we're.

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Developing residential, as you can see, we're only at 100 acres a year but we're preserving over 2.

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000 of the residential and I'd say about 100 or so commercial as well, so we are really outpacing.

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Development tremendously and that's been our trend for a very long time in carroll, county.

G

Thank you, and that brings that's the end of the um introduction. That brings us to the next steps.

B

um This year we got approval of six of the eight municipalities information before they.

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Sent it to us so they did not, uh they will not be approving the entire uh report. This.

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Year, but two of them do want to see the report in there in its entirety, so they will be there.

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In the process of approving their sections of the report in the next few weeks and county planning.

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Commission needs to certify this hopefully next week, we'll bring that to you for certification.

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Or requesting certification and then we'll send a final report to the board of county commissioners.

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And the maryland department of planning and distribute final documentation or document to.

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Municipalities and it will be made available for public, very good nice presentation, any questions.

A

Thank you. That was a wonderful introduction, a lot of good information, it's kind of a nice summary.

A

Also of a lot of the stuff working, absolutely there's a lot of good data yeah, and it gives.

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You a different perspective, doesn't have to come back up and look at it um sort of batched. So.

A

Anyway, um so, mr thank you for the presentation, we'll move on now to I'm 12 mid cycle review so.

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Along with the annual report every five years, the state requires us or I'm sorry, five years into or.

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Half the cycle into a master plan, the state likes you to report on implementation efforts for that.

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Plan so we're we did an amendment so going based on 2014, where we're due for the carroll county.

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Master plan to do a mid-cycle review, so andrew gray come on up andrew's, going to be presenting.

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To you, just the highlights again of what was required for the mid-cycle review and to really.

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Go over some of the implementation efforts that we have done with this master plan and he's going.

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To show you a slide, but I'll just say, um this is probably one of the most implemented master.

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Plans since the first master plan, that's ever been done in carroll county. That's one thing that we've.

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Really tried to make a real, concerted effort on his actual implementation, implementing the plan.

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Itself, you all have been very, very supportive and instrumental in that implementation process.

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Not only just from the code, amendments and changes, but other items that we've done within the plan.

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Itself, such as doing a transportation master plan which will, unless complete, will be coming to you.

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A bike ped plan, all of those other things that you all as this body promote and do have been.

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Instrumental in making this plan as successful as it has been well, thank you well with that.

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Introduction, mr gray, thank you, mr chair. Thank you. Thank you. Commission members, commissioner weaver.

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I just want to give a to go through give a brief introduction on the plan.

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First and then share the implementation strategies where the county is on those.

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um So as as linda hinted to the purpose of the mid-cycle review, state law requires a narrative.

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On the plan's implementation status, at least once in the annual report, this information that will.

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Be sent to mdp maryland, department of planning is included in your planning, commission packet.

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To start out with just a brief overview of the 2014 carroll county master plan,.

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To give the overall vision statement and goals, the county's vision statement is carroll county.

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Is a great place to live, work and play the county conserves and promotes its unique rural.

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Agricultural heritage protects its environmental resources and promotes a balanced approach to new.

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Development and economic opportunities consistent with the fabric of its communities, carroll, county.

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Values and citizens, unalienable rights of life, liberty and property are respected, protected and.

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Sustained our county has 15 goals, as discussed in chapters chapter 3, to achieve our vision.

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Starting with chapter 1 concepts and intentions, the main principle of the 2014 master plan has.

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Been around since the original county plan, and that is to direct a majority of the new growth.

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Into our designated growth areas, chapter 2, inter-jurisdictional coordination.

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Planning process and community involvement. The chapter discusses the town county agreements.

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That stipulate the services and understandings the county has between each of the municipalities.

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There is discussion about regional corporations such as the baltimore regional transportation,.

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Board and the baltimore metropolitan council, the maryland association of counties, other counties.

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From maryland and pennsylvania that have joined carroll county and et cetera, we already spoke.

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About chapter three, the vision, statement and goals: chapter four past present and future trends. This.

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Chapter provides a baseline for the development of the comprehensive plan. It includes information.

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On population housing, agriculture, schools, transportation, county services and employment,.

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For the chapter 5, our water resource chapter, the purpose of the water resources element.

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Is to ensure that future county and municipal comprehensive plans reflect the opportunities.

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And limitations presented by both local and regional water resources, water, waste, water.

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Storm water and etc. This is important not only to future growth, but also existing development.

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For chapter 6, public facilities and services, providing public facilities and services for the.

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Health safety and general welfare of the county citizens is a primary function of local government.

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To ensure demand does not place an undue burden on public facilities and.

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Services, a review process was put into place collectively known as concurrency management.

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Concurrency management or sorry projects subject to concurrency management.

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Are evaluated at preliminary plan and final plan review to test if capacity.

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Of affected services and facilities are adequate, approaching, approaching inadequate or inadequate.

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Public facilities subject to concurrency management includes schools, roads and bridges.

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Water and sewer services, police services and fire and medical facilities for chapter seven.

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Transportation, the carroll carroll county's transportation system contains roadways, railways.

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Trails and an airport, considerable sections of local roadway network were constructed as part.

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Of new residential, commercial and industrial development by the development community.

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The master plan mentions how a test pedestrian facilities network of existing and proposed.

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Interconnected trails will provide both recreation and alternative alternative transportation uses.

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More information can be found in the newly adopted 2019 bicycle and pedestrian facilities, master plan.

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The plan provide the the chapter and concludes by providing a list of planned roadway projects.

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Organized into three different categories and are mapped in the plan. Roads and improvements map on.

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Chapter or sorry on page 65 in the comp plan for the housing element, housing variety allows.

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Our county's diverse population to secure housing that meets their needs throughout life and is.

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Essential for business development for agriculture, preserving farmland in our county is essential.

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For maintaining our heritage and quality of life, continuation of the agricultural land.

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Preservation program is essential to meeting the county's long-standing goal of preserving.

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At least a hundred thousand acres of ag land for future generations for priority preservation.

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Areas the priority preservation area element identifies areas of agriculture and forestry.

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Resource land that would support agricultural production and timber harvesting for present.

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And into the future, the location of these areas are shown on the map on the slide chapter, 11 parks.

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Parks provide opportunities for enhanced quality of life and natural environments. Our county is.

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Well, equipped with park land exceeding the minimum land acquisition of parks by nearly 60 percent.

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It should be noted that the need for recreational facilities in open space cannot be estimated.

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Simply on an acre per person basis, rather, it must be addressed through a comprehensive.

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And frequent review of the county's demographics and the types of facil facilities and statistics.

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That local recreation councils indicate as needed for chapter 12 heritage. Our past gives the county.

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Our identity, we are not just any county usa, we are carroll county maryland, protecting our.

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Past is very important before it is gone for the environmental resources portion.

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Nearly every modification to our natural landscape, whether it is farming, construction of buildings,.

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Roads, sheds, patios or decks impacts the quality of our environmental resources, especially drinking.

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Water, water quality and wildlife, habitat the chesapeake bay, total maximum daily loads and.

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Maryland watershed improvement plan presents challenges to future land use decision, making.

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Reductions needed to achieve the bay's total maximum daily loads are based on.

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Nutrient and sediment loads from not just new development from existing development as well.

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For the mineral resources element chapter 14 to protect minimal mineral resources.

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From preemptive land development, the mineral resource recovery area and the viable resource.

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Area were created to address potential impacts of mining operations on surrounding communities.

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The county developed site design controls, for example, setbacks, landscape requirements.

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Noise lighting restrictions and a recovery plan mentioning what to do after the land has been.

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Fully extracted for chapter 15, the employment and economic development chapter for every property.

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Tax dollar for typical residential development, more than one dollar, is expanded by the county. On.

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Services, especially school, that's why industrial, commercial and agricultural land are so important.

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Because the the converse would be true for those than um residential.

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After studies, areas within the county, exhibiting the highest values for development are number one.

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In the eight incorporated municipalities number two, the immediate environs of the municipalities.

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And three, the freedom area, more jobs occupied by county residents would equate to less.

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Roadway congestion and transportation costs resulting in more income and tax revenue.

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And chapter six: the last chapter of the com, our comprehensive plan.

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Land use and growth management, the struggle to the county is to continue to direct the preponderance.

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Of new development and redevelopment activities into the nine growth areas.

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Where services and facilities are available but are constrained due to state and federal policies,.

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Placing limitations on the accounting's ability to serve future populations.

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Just to reiterate what linda mentioned that this is the most implemented master plan that.

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The county has had since the moment this plan was adopted, county staff, you all on the planning.

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Commission and the board of county commissioners immediately started implementation efforts.

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Just to go through implementation strategies where we are for number one.

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Distributing planning and development related information to make participation, opportunities.

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More easily accessible, the county has improved our website. Social media and webinar outreach.

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Number two, our which our next implementation strategy is to work with the county delegation.

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To seek funding for state highway projects and prioritize them with state highway administration.

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The county has participated in the planning and environmental linkages study.

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For maryland, 32 in maryland and and the maryland 26 corridor study, the county has also worked.

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With maryland department of transportation to expedite improvements, the third strategy.

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Investigate a greater role in responsibility for construction of state arterial and collector roads.

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With capital improvement, funding in partnership with the state funding is included in the capital.

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The county capital improvements program for contrib, contributing to state projects.

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Next, one working with sha to upgrade maryland 32.

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And maryland 27 to a divided highway status from the southern county line to westminster.

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The county has participated in the maryland 32 planning and environmental linkages study.

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And improved the intersection of maryland 27 and gillis fall. Road falls, road, harrisonville road.

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It should be noted that the maryland 32 planning and environmental linkages study.

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Concluded that dualization of maryland 32 from the county line to maryland 26 is not warranted.

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And is not anticipated to be needed in the 20-year planning horizon. The study did identify several.

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Smaller operational improvements, which were included for design funding in the county's annual.

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Consolidated transportation plan sorry program, priority letter for maintaining and approving the.

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Level of service along state arterial roads through cap through corridor preservation.

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Capacity increase and conveyance improvements, this will be addressed with the development of.

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The county transportation master plan to calculate the accident rate based on most recent information.

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From sha and review the high accident intersection or roads to identify possible improvements.

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Needed is ongoing and will be addressed during the preparation of the highway safety plan.

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The bicycle and pedestrian facilities master plan was approved by this board in 2019 and border.

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County commissioners, adoption of plan will be in conjunction with the transportation master plan.

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With a target date of 2022 regarding conducting traffic studies to determine viable options to.

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Move traffic safely and efficiently in known or identify trouble spots within the county, ongoing.

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Development of a county-wide transportation plan in 2020 will address the strategy.

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Continue to work with sha to seek funding for streetscape improvements, hampstead streetscape.

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Project is complete and streetscapes projects for sykesville and new windsor are included.

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In the most recent consolidated transportation program, annual priority letter so andrew in the.

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Essence of time, can we go through the slides just a little quicker? Do you mind, I'm sorry, thank you.

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And then for let's see here changing the county subdivision regulation, zoning ordinance.

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And also encouraging mixed-use plan developments that allow for a variety of housing types.

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As well as recreational uses, the board of county commissioners adopted these changes.

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To the commercial districts to allow limited mixed use, including residential, also for investigating.

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The opportunity to preserve remaining portions or at a minimum, ensure that other uses.

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Minimize interference with agricultural. You just heard about the agricultural.

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Amendments to the um to the ordinance, also about seeking funding for construction of.

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Greenway corridor trails. Participation in this regional effort is currently underway.

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Maintain active participations in the various byway heritage and agro-tourism partnerships.

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To leverage and attractive economic development opportunities, the county continues to participate.

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In heart of the civil war heritage area, this boundary has been modified to meet the goals.

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Of planning and economic development and by the county commissioners, and to continue to support.

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Main street the county, especially in the planning department, we have the liaisons for each town.

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um Continue, I don't know if we need to go this one in detail. Okay, that's fine!.

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Then, to continue to conserve agricultural lands and, oh sorry,.

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Sorry, I missed a slide. I apologize.

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um To continue to ensure that development review process for industrial, commercial development.

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Is predictable and consistent, there is adoption and revisions to the land use codes to make them.

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More efficient, particularly with fewer conditional uses, to ensure that development.

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Review process is business friendly would be the continuation of the policy and.

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The zoning code updates and proposed revisions to chapter 155 will strengthen this policy.

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To zone adequate commercial.

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We're messing you up by jump ahead. We get that so for zoning, adequate commercial, industrial.

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Unemployment's campus lands to increase the non-residential tax base, comprehensive.

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Zoning process is ongoing. The board of county commissioners adopted the new zoning map effective.

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In january of 2021, to ensure the provision of appropriately located industrial and office land.

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Preferably within the designated growth areas, the county has adopted the freedom comprehensive plan.

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And adopted the new zoning maps in 2021 to revise the text of the employment campus.

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Zoning district to provide for comprehensively planned employment centers that combine research.

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And development office, flex, space and other limited light industrial uses, border county.

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Commissioner's adoption of the new chapter 158 text in december of 2019 for creating new zoning.

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Districts that would facilitate new business and economic growth. The county commissioners adopted.

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New chapter 158 texts in 2019 with new commercial and industrial districts, also to continue to work.

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Closely with the town of sykesville and the warfield development corporation, to identify.

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An acceptable development strategy: this is currently ongoing, encourage large-scale.

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Commercial and employment developments to locate where infrastructure already exists or is planned.

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This is the adoption of the 2008 freedom plan, land use designations and by residential resident.

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Request zonings in rural villages encourage small neighborhood commercial development that.

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Is consistent with local the local character and that revitalizes, the historic properties.

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A study of the end of individual rural rural villages is currently ongoing.

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For review and modify the business and industrial zones to promote to promote.

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New business activity and take out the permitted principle permitted and conditional uses that are.

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Inconsistent with the purposes of the zone in december of 2019, the county adopted revisions.

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To land use codes for commercial, industrial and employment campus districts also to evaluate the.

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Addition of development criteria, standards for specific uses, the complete the for this strategy.

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The action taken was completed for the employment and residential districts to improve the visual.

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Image of the county's gateways can be seen by the awarding of the sustainable communities.

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Designation for finksburg to continue to implement the concurrency, managed pro management program.

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The updated concurrency management information was updated in april of 2022. The comprehensive.

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Rezone areas of the county, subject to the master plan, commercial, industrial and employment campus.

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Residential are complete, the ag and conservation are underway and are nearing completion and for.

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The last slide to consider converting rural villages into full priority funding area.

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Designations, where appropriate, this is ongoing and, lastly, to review residential.

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Commercial and industrial, zoning and subdivision regulations and modify as necessary to ensure.

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They are consistent with the master plan goals, adoption of the new zoning and subdivision code.

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For residential commercial, industrial and employment, campus districts were completed.

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In december of twenty twenty one, if you have any questions, please let me know my contact.

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Information is here, it's nice, seeing you all and being in front and before you- and uh I am- I am.

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Very happy to be here with linda and mary and the rest of the planning department here at the county.

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Thank you very much, yeah, mr gray. Thank you. That's a you know in hindsight. It probably.

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Wasn't fair to have him do this in 20 minutes, because you can't do it in 20 minutes.

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More like a two-hour, I think presentation it does show how busy the planning department's been and.

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You've kept us hopping uh during this time. Thank you and, uh and it's a lot of important.

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Stuff, when we, when we were working on the comprehensive plan, there's probably still.

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Some sweat and some blood up here from that whole process. um I know one of the things that.

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You and your colleagues kept pushing correctly in my view, was that you have to implement it's.

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Not enough to get the plan done close it sign it and say we're finished and put it on the shelf. So.

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It's important, it's really important, and so you know any one of those items we could have.

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Talked about because there's a lot to them, we could have spent more time so.

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Thank you for going over so much information, so quickly really appreciate that. Thank you, mr chair.

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So we'll turn you loose, um so thank you very much all right, we'll move on to um do. We need.

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Public comment on these linda- I never know when we need public, I'm here for public comment for.

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The implementation, so no okay! Thank you. Okay, we'll move on to item 13, uh water and sewer spring.

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Amendment and I think uh price wagner is going to walk us through that it says 10 minutes. It's an.

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Introduction, as I understand it, well introduction as well as hopefully get a certification.

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This is part of our twice a year water and sewer amendment. This is the spring amendment.

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So again we have as introduction, but if you all have enough information and you feel that you can.

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Move this forward to the board of county commissioners. That would be very appreciated.

R

Good morning, good morning, uh as linda has actually done in briefly before I'll, just sort of give a.

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Brief why we amend this plan, especially since we have some new members on the commission.

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There's the biannual amendments, which is what we're doing currently right now, so there's one.

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In this fall and one in the spring, so those amendments pretty much occur to keep keep.

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Development and things flowing during the three year period. We do the trial and deal update aspect.

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The initiation of the amendments is either by an individual. You know a property owner.

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A town or system operator so either one of the eight municipalities or in the case of freedom.

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Sewer water and sewer and the hampstead sewer that'll be the county aspect and sometimes staff.

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Could potentially implement a an amendment mostly is by individual or by town or service provider?.

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So we have two amendments during this cycle: a union bridge.

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For the water and sewer service area in the hampstead service, sewer service area.

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So the amendments for the walk for the sewer is map and table 32 amendments.

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For the hampstead sewer service area and union bridge.

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The one in hampstead is particularly focused on the industrial development authority. The.

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Ida and the trenton mill foreign partnership. In essence, what this is going to is to bring.

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The majority of the ida into from future service into priority service.

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To make those lands more marketable for the ida and for those to be developed industrially.

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And then to move the trent mills, farms not out of the service area, but to bring theirs their.

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Actual usage from priority into future, as at this point in time, there is no plans for any type of.

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Development at all from the treatment mills farm partnership and is our understanding from the town.

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That the farmers at this point in time don't have any plans to ever want to do anything.

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With those properties and then finally, union bridge 526, green valley, road and 536.

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This you may, when you see the map they recognize. This actually is the the solar facility that.

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Is going on in union bridge these particular parcels they're in the process of subdividing out.

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These, the southern portion of the overall community solar farm, that's going to go in.

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So, first here's the ida as you'll see this is bringing everything in this top portion right here.

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Actually is currently in the future we're just bringing that into priority right now,.

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And then this portion was split on the southern portion of the property of the second parcel.

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So both of these would be brought into total priority for the immediate marketing ability.

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For the properties and for them should a industry come in they'll be able to currently connect today.

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This is the trenton mills farm property. This is the property right now.

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Which is shown in priority we'll just move them into the future aspect and the allocation.

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That was estimated for this property can be utilized for some of the allocation.

R

On the ida properties, this is essentially a swap correct. There is a little bit of. There is no new.

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Demand being calculated, it is just swapping out a couple of those and then what is the.

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Balance, it will be coming from future into the priority aspect, which is a very small amount.

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This area right here is the union bridge and it looks kind of wonky.

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I did talk with the state and there's two farm houses on this property. The farm is roughly 35.

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Acres that will be subdivided out and talking with the state. There are a lot of environmental.

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Constraints and other features that would not allow for future development of the lower portion.

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Once it gets divided out, so this is literally for the two houses that are underneath that.

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Square and then going up through the there will be a private easement going up through.

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Solar facility, then, would this will then tie into the existing area in union bridge.

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This is the overall map for hampstead. As you'll see the northern portion northwest portion.

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Is now in priority and the southeast portion trenton mills.

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Farm partnership is now going to be going into the future.

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Here is the map again, the overall map for union bridge.

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And as you'll see, the other demand has gone up a little bit, but that is.

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Because we're bringing in from future into the priority so that that demand has increased a.

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Tad bit but again it's all cumulative, so there are no new estimated demands and.

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The numbers accumulate, so the future planning numbers which is seven to ten years out. Those.

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Numbers do not change because they are cumulative from the previous priority.

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Aspect which is zero to six years, which means a person or entity can tie in at this point in time.

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So here is the map amendment for union bridge and just so you know there is no.

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When it comes to the actual table for water and sewer for union bridge, there is so much of the.

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So much capacity within the area, that's going to be the solar facility.

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That the small amount, which is tough, roughly 500 gallons for those two units, would not.

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Even make us so we're just we're, taking roughly 500 gallons from the overall facility, which has.

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Thousands of gallons- and there is no need to do a a table- amendment.

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And again, roughly the exact same layout, uh the two houses which are below- and here is the map.

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um So this overall highlighted in blue is the community solar facility in union bridge the.

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White line is an estimated and I think it may be a little bit further to the south. Now is the.

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Annexation area of the property, so this whole farm below is what's going to be subdivided out.

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And that is working with the between the ub solar personnel and the farmer who owns and.

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Lives on this property, there are two houses: one's the original farmhouse and one's a tenant house.

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For the person helps maintain the farm, those two properties are the ones that are coming in those.

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Two houses, if you wanna, call that not even properties. So that is why it's such a small.

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Area but again talking with mde, they said there is no further potential to develop, as you can.

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Hopefully, able to see this light blue. That is all flood plain, so there is a very small amount.

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That, if any, that could actually be developed, so they are fine with the way this. This map.

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Is going to look, they've already reviewed it and they had no other further comments.

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Again, this is the union bridge portion of the water map you're, just bringing in.

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That that one small portion again it'll be a private easement going up through.

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The ub solar property- and it actually will be a private line which will be maintained.

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By my understanding is maintained by the ub solar for the purpose of the farmer below.

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So what we've done so far, we've updated. As you see I've seen, the water and sewer maps updated the.

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The table 32 for hampstead and then both hampstead and union bridge planning commissions have.

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Certified consistency with their comprehensive plans, so the next steps is actually, um I will be.

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Briefing the county commission on thursday and request a public hearing to be held on.

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My brain just went dead. Thank you on july, the 14th. So what that will be after the two-week period of.

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The public hearing being advertised in the carroll county times so at this point in time I'll take.

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Questions and if the board feels so obliged, also vote to have this certified consistency.

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With the carroll county master plan, as well as the carroll county, water sewer master plan,.

A

So this they seem to be very minor. Yeah, yes, and it's that's sort of the aspect of the amendment.

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Sort of cycle and they're you're correct- they are very minor, um especially the one.

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For dealing with union bridge, but the process, as stated in income, r4 water and sewer planning.

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This is sort of the process we need to go through versus having to wait for a trillionaire update.

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Every three years caused this especially let's say for the ida properties. If they had to wait, then.

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There'd be a potential that something could not potentially go in, because they'd have to wait.

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For that seven to ten years, is there any controversy around this.

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Is the public gonna come in and give us a country view about this? I don't see anybody wanting to.

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All right, um so I guess the the question is: does the commission feel comfortable.

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um Certifying that these recommended amendments to the 2019 carroll, county, water and sewer master.

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Plan are consistent with the 2014 county master plan, amended 2019, the 2010 hampstead community.

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Comprehensive plan amended 2017 and the 2008 union bridge community comprehensive plan third amended.

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2014., I don't have that in my head. I read that I'll make that motion okay, so we have.

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A motion to certify a second okay: we have a second any further discussion.

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All right all in favor, aye aye all right, then. Thank you very much. Thank you, yeah. Thank you very.

C

Much all right, we will take a uh about a 10 minute recess and uh then we will come back and look at.

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Concept subdivision plan on a special report, I think, is what we have next. So thank you.

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We'll be back we're, let me call back to order um during the break we were discussing the agenda.

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And I think what we've uh consensus around is the idea that we'll move forward with items 15 and 16.

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Recess is item 17. we're going to nix that assuming the commission agrees we'll go to 18.

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Which is the chapter 155 proposed amendments, but instead of going through all of that, mr hein, I.

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Think is going to give us a shorter presentation and then we're going to reserve the discussion for.

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Our meeting next week, so that was the idea, we'll still have general public comment.

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So as a housekeeping matter, since we already had a motion to approve the agenda as presented, I'm.

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Requesting that we change the agenda, that's been approved to delete item 17 or recess.

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um Is there a motion that supports that I move that we do that we revise the agenda. There's.

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Like a second all right, any discussion, all in favor, aye, aye all right so item 17 is now deleted.

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And with that we'll go to item 15 concept, subdivision plan, it's matter number p19-0051.

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Estates re-subdivision of section three.

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Perfect good morning, good morning, hey vcraft your development review, as you mentioned, this is.

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P-19051 bradica state's re-subdivision of section three with me is the engineer for the project who.

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All introduced himself good morning, john lemmerman, with rtf associates, and what this project is.

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Proposing is to re-subdivide an existing lot of record to create two additional residential lots.

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This is before you as a concept plan. There's no action required with this.

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So with that, we'll move right into it, so the property itself is located here outlined in orange.

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This is maryland 26. This is maryland 27, here's braddock road and then here's perry, road and.

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For those who may be familiar with the area right on the intersection of 27 and braddock.

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Is the nursery that has the large red barn there? Okay, so the property itself? As I said,.

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Is an existing lot of record? That's roughly 19 acres! It was recorded in plant book 17, page 94.,.

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The property, as you can see, currently hosts a residential dwelling as well as outbuildings.

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On the north side of the site, and the remaining section of state is currently used for agriculture,.

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On the south side of the site, there is an existing stream that is encompassed around some trees.

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And the property itself and the adjoining property surrounding it is currently zoned r. Forty thousand.

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So what the owner is currently proposing to do, as mentioned is to create two new residential.

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Lots from the existing 19 acre parcel. The new lot 82 shown here is proposed at 7.34 acres.

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Lot, 83, which will be back here, is proposed at 7.78 acres and that results in lot. 84, which is here.

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Being 3.93 acres, all lots are proposing the development of single-family dwellings with the.

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Exception of lot 82, which will have the existing residence and outbuildings located on that site.

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Access for the proposed lots of 83 and 84 will be from a shared use and common driveway.

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Which is named munchie drive and that will essentially connect right at the existing apron.

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Onto perry road, so there's no new access point, but they will be.

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Having a slight branch off of that apron onto this new shared driveway.

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So, prior to the initial submittal of plans, the project was first taken to the planning zoning.

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Commission as a special report for direction as to the applicability of a note on the original record.

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Plat, which restricted further subdivision of the property during this meeting, which was held on.

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January 21st 2020, the planning zoning commission acknowledged that the note was added at a time.

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When the property was zoned, agricultural and the development zoning has since been changed to, as I.

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Mentioned residential 40 000. with that at that time the commission at that time voted to carry.

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Or to override general note 10, and to allow the further subdivision.

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Of this lot, the concept subdivision was initially submitted october, 2nd.

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Of 2020 the plan was subject to citizen involvement at the technical review committee.

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Meeting that was held november 23 2020.. There was one citizen that signed in at that meeting.

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But they didn't have any concerns. They just wanted to sit in and listen to what was being.

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Proposed on site, since that meeting no calls or letters have been received by the bureau.

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So, uh as currently designed, the landscape ordinance does not apply to this project.

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The plan has received approval from the floodplain code, with an easement being required.

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And that is going to be down here surrounding that existing stream.

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Grading and sentiment control has granted a concept, approval, engineering review and.

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State highway administration have granted approval of the concept plan.

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Carroll county health department and the bureau of utilities have both granted approval of the plan.

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With private, well and septic systems being proposed for all for all those lots, forest.

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Conservation will be addressed by way of on-site aforestation. The bureau of resource management has.

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Granted constant storm water management approval, storm water management will be.

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Addressed via dry wells, rooftop and non-rooftop disconnects, as well as wide shoulder techniques.

S

So, in accordance with the state development memorandum from the department of planning.

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The proposed land use is consistent with the 2014 carroll county master plan's.

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Land use, designation of residential and low density. The project is also consistent with the.

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2019, water and sewer master plan, both of those which I'm sure you are very familiar with now.

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To give an idea of how the site looks, this is standing on the existing driveway. Looking back.

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Towards the site, so this is roughly where the the new drive.

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Will be, this is standing out on perry, road looking at the existing driveway and the.

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Apron so again, this is where it's going to be split right here, to add that new, sherry driveway.

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And this is standing further back on the driveway. Looking back towards perry, road.

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And then these two slides up top are looking left and right on perry, road and again, this is.

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Just another shot of that existing apron. So with that uh the project is subject to provisions of.

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Concurrency management, chapter 156 and will be tested prior to president presentation of the plan.

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To the commission for approval of the preliminary plan at the concept stage right now, all facilities.

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And services are adequate okay, so, with that be more than happy to answer any questions.

S

Any ideas you may have very good, mr leverman, you have anything to add. um Thank you, david for your.

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Explanations, um the only thing I like to add is just it's a zone or 40 000, but because of the.

T

Being private well and septic and the environmental features you know, they're.

T

A little larger lots than normally would be in that zone, but um I think that would be.

T

The maximum just potential that this overall property would have in the future and that's.

T

That's it. The owner and developer, wasn't able to make it today. The owner is the developer.

T

And they're just anxious to get this wrapped up sure do you all have any questions.

A

I'm curious, I'm sorry go ahead. James! No. I said it's pretty straightforward.

G

We saw it basically before so my concern with all these plans that we see is the length of.

C

The driveway and if we have an emergency emergency vehicle, go to the wrong address.

C

And they have to back out of this thing um by having you, I see the dog leg there, um where they.

C

Can pull in and turn around and come out? Is that the purpose of that that is yes, that is called.

T

Emergency vehicle turnaround, actually anything any use in common driveway over 500 foot in length is.

T

They're required to have a pull over halfway and uh turn around at the end. Good. Okay, thank you.

A

All right are there any members of the public that would like to comment on this.

A

All right it, uh it sounds like the consensus here is that this concept plan looks pretty.

A

Straightforward we're familiar with it. To start with, we appreciate the presentation.

A

So good luck all right! Thank you. Thank you.

T

All right, yeah there you go for once, move on to item 16. special report. It is labeled as.

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Gr-21-0013 meadow branch, road realignment.

A

J

Okay, good morning, everybody I'm kirsten egrel development review um and I have with me adam from.

J

um Airport consultants, what is your last name? uh Schweitzer, sweets.

U

Thank you. Okay, all right we're here for something a little bit different.

J

Than what david was just here for, we are here for a special report.

J

Okay, we're here for a special report for meadow branch: road realignment. Now this is a development.

J

Plan, that's in progress. um It's a grading, only development plan a little different than a regular.

J

Site plan it doesn't go through the same meeting process as a regular site plan. Would it's a.

J

Special different thing for grading only we're just moving dirt. So in this case we are.

J

Doing a greeting only project to realign an existing public road.

J

We're realigning meadow branch road here, I'm not sure if you can see with the label on there.

J

But this is meadow branch road, as the title might make you believe, um so this project is realigning.

J

Meadow branch road, but we're here again not for approval. It's not a concept review that we're.

J

Going to see later at final, this is a special report for a totally different aspect here, but.

J

We are seeking a action, so the road is public, like I said, and it's being changed, modified realigned.

J

So the state and county code both state that when a public facility and it's in your booklet, your.

J

Report, if you want to read the specific reference here when a public facility is being modified,.

J

It is required to go through a consideration.

J

From the planning commission essentially to determine in this case that it is.

J

Consistent with or aligned with the master plan, so that's really what we're here for with you today.

J

um It's not as much about the site plan itself as it is about consistency with the master plan. Okay,.

J

So we're going to be talking about the master plan even more on this project here, so we are located.

J

Just northwest of the city of westminster.

J

Which is down here to the southeast along route? 97 meadow branch, road comes off of route, 97.

J

Comes up just to the western border of the county airport, which will be another point.

J

Of our discussion here, it's kind of the whole reason this is happening and it wraps back down.

J

And connects with route 140, okay. So that's the current alignment for meadow branch board. If you.

J

Would like I just mentioned the county airport here is located just to the east of the site.

J

County airport's also in the master plan, it's been in the master plan for quite some number.

J

Of years to be enlarged to be allowed to support my understanding as larger aircraft and just more.

J

Activity more business over there, it's been in the master plan for a while and I'm not sure what the.

J

Exact time frame is for that actually happening. My understanding is we're getting a little closer.

J

And as a part of that actually happening this meadow branch road here right next to it, you.

J

Can actually see the runway right there, it needs to be moved out of the way. So the whole point.

J

Of this is moving meadow branch road out of the way just a little bit to accommodate the future.

J

Expansion of the airport, which again is in the master plan as part of the master plan.

J

So meadow branch road is moving. We've received grading only plans for that.

J

As part of the grading only plan process, there's no planning, commission final approval or anything.

J

That required, but we're here to you today with you today, because the county code and the state.

J

Code requires that it be approved by the planning commission in this case that is consistent with.

J

The master plan- this is the drawing here this sketch, if you would of, what's being proposed.

J

We've changed our orientation here, but you can see the runway up at the top.

J

The existing road here and between the runway and then the proposed road- it's it's essentially.

J

Just shifting it's just shifting further away again, it's all about accommodating the expansion.

D

Is this faa requirement for safety zones? Yes, I believe adam could probably tell you all about.

J

That yeah we're working with delta, they are airport specialists. They know that inside and.

J

Out so yeah, this is all required by the what requirements are applied to this expansion.

J

For the airport itself, now here's where our discussion really happens here today.

J

Meadow branch wrote again we're just shifting a little bit from where its existing alignment.

J

Is, however, in the master plan, the master plan shows a proposed alignment for meadow branch.

J

Roads a little bit different than what we're proposing here, you'll see the bright pink is.

J

The grading only plan what's being proposed to accommodate the expansion of the airport.

J

And the dark blue that arches to the west, that's what's actually in the master plan.

J

However, before we get too worried, I caught up in that, if you look just to the southeast of that.

J

There's a road that pretty much makes that same trajectory. That's buckshot road.

J

Buckshot road, actually, when we looked into it, development review, looked into it planning.

J

Worked on this and looked into it, the city of westminster looked into it because technically.

J

Portions of this area are within the city of westminster that doesn't affect our process here.

J

We still need to go through this, but so we all looked into this and we found that buckshot road.

J

Actually, if it were called meadow branch road I mean this, would this would meet the.

J

Intent of the master plan, this buckshot road is a relatively new road. It was put in place after the.

J

Realignment for meadow branch road was already in the master plan. I from our understanding.

J

From what we're seeing here, it meets the intent of the alignment for meadow branch, road.

J

As it was stated in the master plan, which there are excerpts from that here in the.

J

Report that it was to be a significant conductor, road between 97, north and 140.

J

And that it's a major collector street between 07, north and 140, and it will shift the vehicle.

J

Of traffic to move more efficiently as the radius as it turns 97 will be more gradual.

J

Instead of coming up off of 97 coming all the way up here on meadow branch, making the sharp.

J

Turn on meadow branch coming back down and then heading back to when we looked.

J

Into that, that's what our determination was and what our findings were, that the.

J

Buckshot road meets those intents. In fact, if you look on the last page of your packet, there.

J

Again, we worked with the planning office in the city of westminster,.

J

That there's a memo from the planning office and it gets a little bit in detail about something.

J

Else, that's going on in the in in process right now that I'm sure you'll hear a lot about in the.

J

Future too, the transportation master plan and looking at that and looking at this.

J

In consideration of that transportation master plan when that is published when that is updated,.

J

This meadow branch, road alignment will be removed from the master plan and the transportation master.

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Plan and any other master plans that reference it, because it's already achieved by buckshot so.

J

With all that being said, there's again there's a memo here that states essentially that this is.

J

Already this alignment is already achieved and then, when the master plans are updated, it will.

J

Be removed from the master plans with all that being said, the proposed alignment has already.

J

Achieved the proposed alignment through the grading only process in order to accommodate.

J

The airport expansion, which again, is also in the master plan and that's not changing.

J

But this alignment here would be deemed inconsequential essentially to the master plan as.

J

The objectives of the master plans- meadow branch- road alignment- has already been achieved. It's.

J

Just a matter of getting through the details and updating those documents. Now at this point, so the.

J

Transportation master plan is published and then the master plan itself is updated to reflect that.

J

So again, this is we're not here for approval of the plan, the plan's still in process.

J

um Not quite to that point on that yet, but if you look at the end removal from the master plan.

J

And the future expansion of the carroll county regional airport as an objective of the master.

J

Plan staff recommends that the planning commission find the road alignment as consistent with the.

J

Carroll county master plan, um so that would be our recommendation and that's that's why we're.

J

Here with you today, so that's a lot. I'm talking about the master plan all day today, but if you've.

J

Got more questions about it? I think that any of us here probably be able to piece together a response.

J

Or if you have questions about the plan itself, with this grading only again, it's going through.

J

A separate process, but we can talk about that too, if there are questions about that well, thank you.

A

Thank you well number one. We worked hard on the master plan, so it's good to talk about it.

A

um Number two, so my understanding, then the grading alignment for meadow branch, road, the pink line.

A

That's happening that moves meadow branch, road; no, it doesn't move meadow branch road. So on this.

J

Map here the green lines represent the roads that are existing okay, so meadow branch road currently.

J

It's pretty close. Well, it's closer to the airport runway. Is it going to move to the pink line? It's.

J

Shifting to the pink line? Okay, okay, so that's all it's happening. You can see. The trajectory is.

J

Almost identical this is the plan. This is a sketch of what's actually happening, so the cross hatch.

J

Up there, that's between the airport, runways and the darker lines. That's the existing road right.

A

So it's just going to shift over to where the pink line is it's just shifting that way, it still gives.

A

People access to their homes that are correct, and additionally too, you can see the green lines.

J

Again, it comes up and it sweeps down, and then it connects to what's called meadow branch. Road.

J

Again down there there's also sufficient access there. It's actually a relatively new intersection.

J

And this location, I think it's two or three lanes wide on both sides. It's possibly even a.

J

Little nicer than going all the way up here to loop around and come back down again right and.

A

The blue line is what the master plan envisioned we're going to get rid of the blue line.

A

Is the proposal correct the and I believe, linda could probably describe that a little bit better.

J

That the the lines that you're seeing on the master plans, it's not like somebody's going.

J

Out there and surveying it and seeing hey this is where perfect road would go and here's how it bank.

J

It's just kind of like here's, a sketch of what connections would be ideal. You wanted to be.

A

A feeder road and you want to soften the curve, exactly which I think was why buckshot ended up.

J

Being more rare, it is because if you were to look at, if you were to be down there, it's pretty hilly.

J

Right where that blue line cuts through so instead of worrying about what the master plan said and.

A

Having this curve softened on meadow branch, we look and we say well in the meantime, buckshot.

A

Road has come along and it satisfies the goals that we had set forth in the master plan about it.

A

Being a significant collector road between 97 and 140, and it serves as a primary.

A

Through movement for 97 industrial corridors, as well as the residential development.

A

Occurring in the area and your position is that buckshot accomplishes all of that.

A

It moves out the need to make this change right, not only in my position, but again we.

J

Worked with planning office on the here there's a memo in the packet there. They worked with the.

J

City of westminster, I worked with the city of westminster, we've looked at this, for I mean adam.

J

This project's been in process for quite a few months now, we've been looking at this in pretty.

J

Good detail to make sure that what we were saying was that it made sense that it was we're able to.

J

Communicate that, clearly that we have a plan to remedy any potential ideas of inconsistency in the.

J

Future now that all those things were in motion, we were comfortable enough to bring this before the.

J

Commission to get that consideration and the city of westminster is comfortable with this too. Yes,.

E

And that that actually is um in the city's plan, the meadow branch um extended. But yes, we've been.

E

Working with them as part of the transportation master plan and the agreement was to remove.

E

The curb segment and that both the new realignment and buckshot accomplish.

E

That, okay, so I think I understand anybody have any questions. Yeah michael and these are probably.

P

For adam mr switzer, so exactly how far is the is the road shifting um it's about between 150 feet.

U

So it's it's faa surveyed required because of landing takeoffs. Yes! So if you're familiar with.

U

What's gonna happen with the airport, there's a plan to move the runway right shift the runway.

U

250 feet towards the metal yeah and that pushes surfaces protected areas and so we're moving.

U

The road kind of just enough to make that happen, so I guess that's what I'm getting to so that's.

P

That's the be all end-all for the airport. That's the end of the airport expansion.

P

So again, uh why don't we just say: okay, let's do this now and just do buckshot road, south and.

P

Expand you know so that area up there above the relocation or even south of the relocation could.

P

Become accessible feasible for the airport, I don't know, are we going to, I said, are we going to do.

P

Something here and then in five years yeah, so this would be it you're working through this forward.

D

In the future way in the future, I believe yeah there's an there's what they call the ultimate.

U

Portion of that, that's the plus 20 years 400 feet. The the new runway will be 400 feet longer than.

U

The current one, but it's kind of over in it's displaced, yeah and then there's a potential.

D

Down the road for more, but that's we're not not even identified correct. That's that's the.

U

Plus 20, or what we call the old development, it's not the end of the airport. What you're saying it.

D

Can get a lot larger later, it'll be a different board. We won't see it definitely.

C

Thank you. Thank you. I would ask the speed there on buckshot and that turn.

C

And people making a left-hand turn on the relocated road. Are we comfortable with all those.

C

Things going on right there, so I will say that this sketch this is from a year or two ago, the.

J

Speeds might have been revised. I know that this intersection here has a different signage on it.

J

So that's something that's being reviewed through the review process for the grading. Only plan.

J

I couldn't tell you what the speed limits are in those locations or what the exact traffic.

J

Pattern looks like, but it is something that's being looked at through that review process.

A

Any other questions.

A

All right, thank you for the presentation. um Would one of you be inclined to make a I'll say I'll.

H

Take a stab at making a motion that the planning commission that we find the road alignment as.

H

Consistent with the county master plan is that all we need very good there. We have emotions right.

A

Okay, we have a motion and a second and further discussion, all in favor all right, I'm gonna, post.

J

Thank you very much, everybody is there an other. I mean I see two action required here. Oh is there.

G

Another one on the front and at the end no that's just to introduce and then a recap. Okay, all right.

G

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I didn't ask if there was any members of the public that had any.

A

Comment but I don't see any more members of the public who've come in since last time. I asked that.

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Question so she thought he was the member of the public. I did yeah all right. Thank you very.

A

Much we're going to skip the recess, we're going to move to item 18. chapter 155 proposed amendments.

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And mr hein you're, going to give us a kickoff here, I think, is what you referred to.

V

Yeah I'll kick off quickly and then we'll get into the three hours of code discussion.

V

That never I'm sorry um not today, not today, so uh you've had a lot of discussion uh both today and.

V

That has been has been indicated over the past five or six years, all related to chapter 158.

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And that's the primary code that kind of drives, what's allowable uh from a zoning perspective,.

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What we're here to to kick off today with you is chapter 155.

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Which guides the site, development and subdivision process so david and kirsten are going to.

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Give you a very brief overview of the types of changes that we've we've started.

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And then we will be here at the next meeting and dive into the details to talk through that.

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Process and then once we work through the process with you all, then we'll be taking you back to the.

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Board of county commissioners for approval, so with that turn over to david and kirsten, I think.

S

That was a perfect introduction, so essentially, what we're looking to do with this code change.

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Is we actually have three objectives here, so we're looking to absorb the development review manual.

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Into the code and add whatever is not absorbed into the code onto the website for accessibility.

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And I'm sure many of you may not even be aware that there is a development review manual.

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That's kind of the reason why we just want to have all of the code in one place within chapter 155.,.

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Another thing that we're looking to do here is to reconfigure chapter 155 to essentially when.

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We use the word streamline the layout here, so we want to make it easy to if you want to subdivide.

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Your property, you go to a section that says subdivision versus having to bounce around the.

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Code to figure out what you can and can't do on your property and then finally, we're looking to.

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Just revise for clarity and predictability again, just so that people in the public who may not.

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Be familiar with reading code are able to answer their questions um before calling into the county.

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And so uh going back to the manual here, so this was established back in 2004. It has yet to be.

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Updated since then, policies have been updated since then, but the manual has not been and the.

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Main reason for that is because it was codified, which made going through making any changes.

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To that manual having to essentially go through this process here, which is very, very cumbersome.

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So after going through the manual roughly six pages out of the 100 plus pages are unique.

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Content, a lot of what's in there is redundant, or it's already on the website or stuff like that. So.

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We're looking to take any of those unique contents and put those within the code.

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And then let everything else lie where it is, since it is redundant and some of those.

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Six pages contain driveway specifications, but also you know, some of the other items include.

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Outdated checklists, outdated procedure guides and and whatnot so again with this update the.

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Manual, it will be retired, we will hold a banner up into the development review for it and again.

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So the select contents will be dispersed into chapter 155. We will create a technical memorandum.

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Again to house those driveway specifications that aren't included in the code currently.

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And then everything else that is not currently in chapter 155 will be added as web-based content.

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So some of the items being transferred over to chapter 155 will be the simplified site plan.

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Process some definitions that are not currently within chapter 155 and driveway requirements.

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The drive requirements again will comprise or will be comprised.

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Within this technical memorandum, so currently the manual has plate drawings.

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Related to driveways and aprons that aren't located anywhere else.

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The plates are going to be and have currently been updated and will be renumbered for accessibility.

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And they will be incorporated into what is called a technical memorandum which will be available.

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Online and it can be updated as needed, since it is not codified. So if numbers you know for.

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Driveway requirements change: we can change those without having to go through this process. Here.

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Some of the web-based information that we're going to.

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Move from the manual onto the website is process, overviews for subdivisions and site plans.

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Legal documents and mylar transmittals, a deed questionnaire for legal documents.

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Procedures and checklists for simplified site plans and concurrency management.

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Applications- and I will note that I'd say 99 of this stuff is already on the website.

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But whatever is not currently on the website that is in the manual will be added to the website.

S

And finally, as mentioned, uh we're looking to kind of reorganize, the the code as it currently lies so.

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On the left is how it is currently read and then on. The right is what we are looking to change.

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Again, we're just looking to make this a little more predictable if you're going through the.

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Subdivision process you may not want to go through the process section to search to figure out what.

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Is subdivision what site plan we are looking to add some new subsections which centralize text.

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Currently, located throughout the code, so these are more things that are are for both.

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Subdivision and site plan so that way, if you're looking in the site plan code for subdivision.

S

It just doesn't make sense so having a more general area for everything that would apply.

S

um Will make it a whole lot easier for people trying to find something.

S

And also there's some smaller changes, so changing particular areas to instead be specific areas so.

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That way, it aligns more with the current zoning code and then changing subdivision of land.

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To just be subdivision, because, essentially they're the same and one thing I will note.

S

With this and we'll definitely dive into this com next wednesday, the 29th is that there's.

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Nothing being added to the code that is not currently code, so whether it's codified in.

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The manual or codified in chapter 155 and being reorganized we're just looking to reorganize in.

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A sense so that it's easier to find, but there's nothing, that's really being added at this point.

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And so, as chris already alluded to some of the next steps, we have.

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Is to present to planning zoning commission as many times as necessary.

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To get consideration, comment and recommendation to the board of county commissioners. At that point, we.

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Will present to the board of county commissioners for their consideration, comment and approval.

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And then, at that point as well, the updated code will be adopted and the technical memorandum will.

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Be added onto the website with those driveway specifications and whatnot. So that is a very.

S

Brief overview slightly over lunch time, I hope your sugar didn't roll air off. Yet no that was.

A

Well done well done any questions before we. I can't believe they want to streamline government.

D

Radicals and if I could just make one uh comment, um so we did receive one public comment um about.

V

The fact that we're going through this process of revising chapter 155 and we are making the changes.

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Available onto the on the website, so anybody can take a look at them and review them. We'll.

V

Be sending out those changes to you all, but the comment that this came through social media was.

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That there was concern that we're doing a complete overhaul of chapter 155. Because when you look at.

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It you see all sorts of strikeouts, all sorts of added and so on, and that's really just a function.

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Of if you move something within the code, it's struck out in one location and added to another.

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Location and so it looks like we're, changing a lot, but really we're just moving something from one.

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Place to another, so I just wanted that be clear. As david said: we're really not adding any additional.

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Code requirements changing code requirements. This is much more of a reorganization process and for.

V

Clarity, so just wanted to point that out. If you look here this is, I know it's kind of blurry. It's.

J

Kind of hard to see this. But if you look here this middle section of subdivision in the proposed code.

J

Well, this is subdivision lan in the existing code. It's only like five or six items, long.

J

Versus, what's probably 11 or 12., all of this again, like david, said it came from somewhere.

J

Else in the code, so you'll see a whole section of strikeout where we moved the.

J

Cluster subdivisions the whole thing's striked out like it's gone, but actually it just relocated. So.

J

When you open up the code to look at it, it's overwhelmed, it's probably just moved.

J

Somewhere else, what's the cousin of what we were doing earlier with the conservation? Yes, I mean.

A

We've been through this process, so we're pretty familiar with it. I don't think we won't be shocked.

S

And I also want to make it clear that um this isn't going to change anything under the planning.

S

Zoning commission's purview everything process wise is going to be exactly the same. We're still.

S

Going to be presenting projects, as we did earlier this morning, but again this is more or less just.

S

To make it easier to read, make it easier for the public and then also to get rid of the manual.

O

Very good: well, we appreciate your presentation today and also working with us, so we can spend.

A

The time it requires and not be rushed, so we can put it on next week's agenda. Yes, absolutely thank.

A

You again we'll be sending you directly links to this information online. um If you wanted.

J

To access it elsewise or if anybody else wanted to access it, if you just go to the county's website,.

J

If you look up land and resource management, you'll see it as an option on the left. The code reviews.

J

Okay, so okay, talking about this next week. Thank you. um The next item is general public comment.

A

General public comment seeing none. uh The last item is item. 20, which is adjournment is.

A

There a motion to adjourn uh make the motion that we adjourn. Is there a second a second.

A

All in favor all right all right, I'm opposed. We stand adjourned and reminder. The next meeting.

E

Is virtual for our wednesday evening meeting? Okay! Thank you, okay! Thank you all very much. Thank you.

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