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Board of County Commissioners for Washington County, Maryland 100 West Washington Street Hagerstown, MD 21740 Board of County Commissioners for Washington County, Maryland 100 West Washington Street Hagerstown, MD 21740 Dear Commissioners: This report submitted pursuant to the provisions of Article 66B of the Annotated Code, summarized the activities of the Commission from July 1, 2000 through June 30, 2001. In addition to the routine review and approval of subdivisions and site plans, the Commission continued to implement the Comprehensive Plan that was adopted in 1981. The various elements of the Plan worked on by the Commission in Fiscal Year 2001 are described in this report along with the numerous other tasks undertaken during this fiscal year. As in the past, the new Work Program that has been formally adopted by the Planning Commission lists all those tasks the Commission plans to address. Sincerely, Robert C. Arch Planning Director RCA/sac TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Planning Organizational Chart . i The Comprehensive Plan . 1 Planning Commission Work Program . 2 Agricultural Land Preservation Program . 3 Metropolitan Planning Organization . 5 Forest Conservation Program . 6 Water and Sewerage Plan . 9 Park and Environmental Planning . 11 Historic District Commission . 12 Community Development . 14 - Housing Repair Loan Programs - Elderly Rental Housing Development - Community Development Block Grant Program - Technical Assistance Development Activity . 17 Rezoning Cases . 18 Board of Zoning Appeals Statistics . 20 Agriculturally Significant Land Converted to Development . 21 Agricultural Preservation Districts . 22 Activities Processed . 25 FY 2001 Subdivision Summary . 26 FY 2001 Subdivision Detail . 27 Subdivision Trends . 29 Planning Sector Map . Appendix FY 2001 Development Map . Appendix FY 2001 Rezoning Map . Appendix Agricultural Preservation New District Map . Appendix Agricultural Preservation Cumulative Map . Appendix Washington County Planning Commission 2001 Annual Report Board of County Commissioners Gregory I. Snook, President Paul L. Swartz, Vice President Bertrand L. Iseminger John L. Schnebly William J. Wivell Planning Commission Paula Lampton, Chairperson Robert E. Ernst, II, Vice-Chairman Bertrand L. Iseminger, Ex-Officio George Anikis Don Ardinger R. Ben Clopper Timothy Henry Published December 16, 2002 Washington County Planning Commission 80 West Baltimore Street Hagerstown, MD 21740 THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN Implementation of policies associated with the Comprehensive Plan continued through FY 2001. Items, which are outlined in greater detail in other sections of this report, are directly related or reflect some aspect of the implementation of the policy and goals of the Comprehensive Plan. During FY 2001 the Planning Commission worked to implement the policies of the existing Comprehensive Plan through adoption of amendments to the Zoning Ordinance and other regulations while work on the update to the Comprehensive Plan continued. Work on the updating of the Comprehensive Plan continued on the last 6 chapters of the revised plan. This included development of maps and charts to depict information and present recommendations proposed in the revised Plan. Work on the update was anticipated to continue throughout the next fiscal year. Since the Comprehensive Plan adoption in 1981, the Planning Commission and the Planning Staff have worked continuously to implement its strategies for growth management in Washington County. The attached work program for FY 2001 is designed to continue that effort. WORK PROGRAM 2000 2001 SPECIAL PROJECTS JULY AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC JAN FEB MARCH APRIL MAY JUNE CIVIL WAR HERITAGE AREA PLAN → 1 AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION ALTERNATIVE REVIEW → 1 GIS DEVELOPMENT → 1 RURAL LEGACY → 1 UPDATE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN → 1 MPO LONG RANGE TRANSPORTATION PLAN → 1 CONTINUING PROGRAMS PROJECTS/ACTIVITIES → 1 - ANNUAL REPORT - HISTORIC PRESERVATION PROGRAM - CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM - STATISTICAL DATA, MAPPING & REFERENCE MATERIAL MAINTENANCE - SUBDIVISION PLATS AND SITE PLANS - ZONING MAP AND TEXT AMENDMENTS - MPO COORDINATION - TOWN PLANNING ASSISTANCE PROGRAM - AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION PROGRAM - PPRELIMINARY CONSULTATIONS - PARK PLANNING - APFO - COMPREHENSIVE PLAN - FOREST CONSERVATION PLAN REVIEW - WATER AND SEWERAGE PLAN AGRICULTURAL LAND PRESERVATION PROGRAM Washington County’s efforts to preserve valuable farmland via the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Program (MALPP) began in April 1978 and has continued to date. The Program was established and is regulated by Agricultural Article, Sections 2-501 through 2-515 of the Annotated Code of Maryland. It is administered through a Planning Commission staff member, by the Washington County Agricultural Land Preservation Advisory Board, the County Commissioners, and the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation (MALPF) of the Maryland Department of Agriculture. The program encourages landowners to voluntarily enter into an Agricultural Land Preservation District in which it is agreed that the land will not be developed for a period of at least five years (to receive County tax credits, the landowner is required to commit his property to agricultural use only, for a period of ten years). In return for the restriction, the landowner receives protection from nuisance complaints and becomes eligible to sell a Development Rights Easement. A landowner may exercise the option of selling a Development Rights Easement to the Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation provided that his offer to sell is recommended by the County’s Advisory Board and the County Commissioners. At the local level, the Agricultural Advisory Board reviews and ranks easement applications, assigning point value to such items as farm size, soil quality and development pressure indicators on its easement checklist. If purchased by the State of Maryland, the easement will remain effective in perpetuity. During FY 2001, total acreage in the program increased to 27,667 acres with a total of 203 agricultural districts. Under the MALPP easement purchase program, contracts were issued during FY 2001 for five (5) additional farms, bringing total easement properties in the program to 46 equaling 8,332 acres. In addition, ongoing Federal, State and private conservation easements around Antietam Battlefield effectively preserve an additional 8,100 acres of agricultural land in perpetuity. The Battlefield figure includes properties from the Rural Legacy Program. Total permanently preserved acreage in the County stands at 16,650 acres, counting the above listed programs, as well as donated easements. AGRICULTURAL SIGNIFICANT LAND CONVERTED TO DEVELOPMENT 1980 TO JUNE 30, 2001 Total Developed Total Converted ACREAGE LOTS ACREAGE LOTS %CONVERTED 1980 1,359.6 365 487.8 95 36.0 1981 1,137.1 332 251.3 59 22.0 1982 964.9 150 194.4 33 20.1 1983 895.3 220 305.6 127 34.1 1984 1,092.3 235 409.6 68 37.5 1985 1,144.6 231 439.8 65 38.4 1986 946.9 250 138.8 60 14.6 1987* 2,254.6 995 363.1 94 16.1 1989 1,714.8 770 301.3 86 17.5 1990 1,769.1 820 318.6 102 18.0 1991 1,115.4 339 321.6 104 28.8 1992 1,246.9 565 203.5 46 16.3 1993 793.5 1,005 156.8 45 19.8 1994 833.2 312 121.0 42 14.5 1995 598.6 342 208.6 76 34.8 1996 995.9 506 191.8 37 19.3 1997 760.8 224 174.0 39 22.9 1998 754.8 395 151.0 40 20.0 1999 793.9 242 33.1 12 4.2 2000 711.8 398 57.9 18 8.1 2001 1,026.4 394 266.4 44 25.9 TOTAL 22,910.4 9,090 5,096 1,292 22.2 22.2% of the land developed between 1980 and June 30, 2001 has been converted from agriculturally significant land. * Reporting period of 18 months was used to change the Planning Commission’s Annual Report from a calendar year to a fiscal year. METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION During FY 2001, the Hagerstown/Eastern Panhandle Metropolitan Planning continued to move forward. The organization is composed of representatives from Washington County, Maryland; Berkeley County, West Virginia; Jefferson County, West Virginia; and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. The organization’s home base is in the Washington County Planning Department. Revisions to the adopted Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) for the years 2000 – 2002 were approved along with a new UPWP work program that focused on the updating the Long Range Transportation Plan. Development of and RFP to retain a consultant to complete the Long Range Transportation Plan was a priority project. Discussions were also held with representatives of the Maryland and West Virginia Departments of the Environment as well as the Maryland and West Virginia DOT’s on the impact or replacement of the one hour ozone attainment regarding with an 8 hour ozone attainment requirement as proposed by EPA. Work on developing RFPs for the following special studies projects: realignment of Rench Road with MD 65 and Battlecreek Blvd. intersection; alignment for Eastern Blvd. extension to March Pike; and an alignment for a bypass south and east of Funkstown from Alternate 40 to Hebb Road continued during this time period. The MPO’s presence as a transportation planning agency continued to evolve with letters of support requested from various local communities relating to Federal Transportation Funds or local initiatives. FOREST CONSERVATION PROGRAM Washington County continues to implement the local version of Maryland's Forest Conservation law. Through the inventory of existing forest on development sites and the calculation of minimum forest cover, based on existing forest and proposed development, the law is designed to slow the loss of valuable forest land in the State of Maryland. Several options for meeting obligations under the Ordinance are available. The first preferences are to prevent the disturbance of existing forest or to plant new forest on the development site. Planting new forest and placing easements on existing forest are also available. Payment of a fee in lieu of planting or retention is also allowable. In the past fiscal year the Washington County Planning Department processed 257 subdivision and site plan applications covering 3,788.58 acres of land. 196 or 76% of those applications were exempt from the requirements of the Forest Conservation Ordinance (FCO), approximately equal to the previous year’s exemptions.
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