INFORMATION ON COMPREHENSIVE ZONING
Following adoption of the 2009 General Development Plan, the Office of Planning and Zoning will initiate a Comprehensive Zoning process. The application period for the 2010 Comprehensive Zoning will be held between December 1, 2009 and January 29, 2010. The Comprehensive Zoning Application will be available on this website on November 23, 2009 and throughout the application period. Hard copies will also be available from the Office of Planning and Zoning at that time.
All Comprehensive Zoning Applications will be evaluated by the Office of Planning and Zoning. Applicants will receive a letter from the Office stating its recommendation on the application prior to the introduction of legislation.
Additional information on Comprehensive Zoning may be found in the 2009 General Development Plan (Final Draft April 2009) in the section entitled “Relationship of the Land Use Plan and Comprehensive Zoning” (Chapter 7, page 114). The section explains the criteria used by the Office of Planning and Zoning in evaluating future Comprehensive Zoning Applications.
For additional information on this process, please contact Lynn Miller or Cindy Carrier in the Long Range Planning Division, Office of Planning and Zoning, at (410) 222-7432.
In fact, comprehensive Upzoning (call it what it is) only requires 4 votes on the County Council for approval. A process that empowers a handful of local elected officials(actually two will have been APPOINTED by the remainder) to make landuse decisions without meeting any standards is a prescription for more of the same development debacle that has fouled our waterways, neglected our public infrastructure and left the public with a $2+Billion unfunded maintenance backlog. I am not encouraged.
ReplyDeleteIn reading this I am wondering about two things:
ReplyDelete1) Can anyone (regardless of property ownership and proximity) apply for a comp rezoning change for a parcel?
2) Once Council decides, what are (if any!) circumstances for which a council comp rezoning decision can be overturned?
Any property owner can request a re-zoning and yes it is generally a request for up-zoning.
ReplyDeleteAbsent extraordinary circumstances, the re-zoning is a legislative action with no avenue of appeal.
Ann F.