The Talbot County Planning and Permits Department has scheduled a series of Saturday presentations by County staff, at meetings for residents of the County’s unincorporated villages. The purpose of the presentations and public meetings is to review and discuss proposed changes to County plans and regulations to help protect the character of village communities.
The Department asks for your participation. The public meetings are an opportunity for village residents to understand and provide input for draft proposals addressing several County and state policy initiatives affecting Village land uses. These include:
- Address the provision of future village sewer services, and growth policies.
- Review new proposed Village Center zoning designations designed to better reflect individual village character. Property owners will have the opportunity to express their preference for a zoning district designation. A draft map has been prepared and the Planning and Permits Department is seeking public input for possible refinements to the draft. The zoning map amendments and district boundaries will be coordinated with changes to the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area maps.
- Proposed updated village policies for the 2005 Talbot County Comprehensive Plan. These policies are designed to reflect the more refined future growth and public facility policies that have resulted from the Village Board planning process since 2005 and recent changes to state law.
The dates and locations for the presentations and meetings are below:
- April 6 – Tilghman, Bar Neck, Fairbank, Sherwood and Wittman at Tilghman Volunteer Fire Department Hall;
- April 13 – Cordova, Skipton, Wye Mills, Longwoods, Copperville, Tunis Mills, Unionville, Bruceville, Ivytown and Williamsburg at the Talbot County Free Library Easton Branch;
- April 27 – Bozman, Neavitt, Claiborne, McDaniel, Bellevue, Newcomb and Royal Oak at the United Methodist Church in Bozman.
The Talbot County Village Center Board was established to better coordinate the planning process, and to enhance communication, information gathering and sharing, and coordination among and between the County and each Village Center.
For more information, contact Martin Sokolich, Talbot County Department of Planning and Permits at 410-770-8030.
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