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St. Mary’s County Government Land Use & Growth Management Citizens’ Academy September 30, 2014 6-9 PM
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St. Mary’s County Government
Land Use & Growth ManagementCitizens’ Academy
September 30, 20146-9 PM
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County Organizational Chart
Citizens of St.
Mary’s County
County Commissioners
County Administrator
Aging & Human Services
Economic Development
Finance
Human Resources
Land Use & Growth Management
Emergency Services & Technology
Public Information Office
Public Works & Transportation
Recreation & Parks
County Attorney
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Land Use & Growth Management
Department of Land Use and Growth ManagementPhillip J. Shire
Director
William B. Hunt Deputy Director
Jeffrey Jackman Comprehensive
Planning
Robert Bowles Development
Services
Yvonne Chaillet Zoning
Administration
Harry Knight Permits
Brian TaylorInspections & Compliance
Shelia SmithAdministration
Services
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State Planning Overview
Although Maryland is 42nd in size among the 50 states, it is 19th in population and ranks 5th in population density.
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State Planning Overview
• As a result, pressure to use Maryland’s land for a wide range of uses has been intense.
• The need to plan for land uses has been troubling State planning officials since the 1930s.
• 1933 – MD General Assembly creates first state planning commission in the country.
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State Planning Overview
• The State of Maryland entrusts local jurisdictions with land use planning authority to guide growth and development through the Land Use Article of the Maryland Annotated Code.
• The Land Use Article delegates planning and land use regulatory authority to all municipalities and (non-charter) counties.
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Land Use & Growth Management Overview
Land use plan preparation and maintenance (updating)
• Research and analysis
• Text and exhibits
• Compliance with statutes
• Citizen participation
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Land Use & Growth Management Overview
Plan implementation• Development Review
Zoning compliance
Subdivision and site plan approvals
• Permits and inspections
• Capital budgeting
Advocacy and consistency
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Supporting Boards and CommitteesLand Use & Growth
Management Overview
Supporting Boards and Committees• Planning Commission
• Board of Appeals
• Historic Preservation Commission
• Board of Electrical Examiners
• Building Code Appeals Board
• Commission on the Environment
• Plumbing and Fuel Gas Board
Comprehensive Planning
Jeffrey JackmanDivision Manager
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Comprehensive Planning Division Staff
Jeffrey Jackman – Senior Planner
Sue Veith – Environmental Planner
David Chapman – Capital Facilities Planner
Grace Brady – Historic Preservation Planner
Kathryn Chaney – GIS/Database Specialist
Calvin Strozier – GIS Operator
(VACANT) – Addressing Technician
Phone: 301-475-4200 ext. [email protected]
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Primary Responsibilities
• Land use plan preparation and updating
• Environmental plans and programs
• Capital facilities
• Historic preservation
• Supporting data and mapping
• Uniform addressing for public safety
Comprehensive Planning
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Land Use Plan Preparation and Updating
Comprehensive Planning
• Assist the planning commission in meeting statutory requirements for preparing and recommending a comprehensive land use plan.
• Support the county commissioners in the adoption
and implementation processes, including zoning maps and regulations.
• Help facilitate public participation.
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Environmental Plans and Programs
• Assist in preparing and recommending a Comprehensive Plan, including provisions that preserve and enhance the natural setting and protect against hazards.
• Educate the public on state and county efforts to improve the environment.
• Assist county agencies with complying with and improving local and state environmental programs.
• Pursue grants for environmental research and implementation projects.
Comprehensive Planning
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Capital Facilities
• Ensure adequacy of public facilities for proposed development. Sanitation Water service Roads Schools Emergency services
• Update plans as needed or mandated. Comprehensive plan Water and sewerage plan Annual growth policy Educational facilities master plan Solid waste plan Emergency facilities plan Parks plan Comprehensive Planning
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Historic Preservation
• Implement the St. Mary’s County historic preservation plan.
• Review proposed development for impacts on historic resources.
• Provide staff assistance to the Historic Preservation Commission.
• Promote the County’s historic districts program.• Pursue grants that help preserve historic resources.• Identify and evaluate potential historic resources
through field work, documentary research, and interviews.
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Supporting Data and Mapping
• Maintain pertinent land use information in the county’s shared database.
• Ensure compatibility of data from outside sources. • Link property data to aerial photographs and
computer generated maps. • Improve and maintain accuracy of digital maps.• Provide presentation graphics, tax maps, zoning
maps, sensitive area maps, water/sewer and other maps.
• Analyze geographic data to support long range planning.
Comprehensive Planning
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Uniform Addressing for Public Safety
• Assign addresses to existing and planned premises.
• Maintain E911 public safety standards for road naming, premise numbering, and displaying numbers.
• Distribute latest information to emergency services, post offices and private delivery services, utility companies, schools, the tax assessor, and others.
Comprehensive Planning
Development Services
Robert BowlesDivision Manager
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Development Services Division Staff
Robert Bowles - Manager, Planner IV, FCQP
Hannah Pinkerton - Planner II
Jeanine Harrington - Planner I
Susan McCauley - Planner I, Facilitator
Brandy Glenn - Senior Planning Specialist
Ashley Renshaw - Senior Office Specialist
301-475-4200 ext. [email protected]
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Functions of the Development Services Division
One of the most important roles of the Development Services Division is to responsibly protect the natural
environment from the impacts of development.
Development Services
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Primary Responsibilities
• Responsible for approval of subdivision and site plan proposals.
• Lead for agency coordinating development review comments from the Technical Evaluation Committee (TEC).
• Prepare reports for the TEC, Planning Commission, and the Board of County Commissioners.
• Distribute reports to surveyors, engineers, and citizens.
Development Services
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The Process
“What can I do with my property?”
Options:1. Commercial Business2. Public or Semi-Public Institution3. Subdivision
4. Other, which could include: rezoning applications, planned unit developments, deeds, boundary surveys, boundary line adjustment and condominium plats
Schedule a meeting with us.
Development Services
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Development Review Application
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Compliance with the Zoning Ordinance
The Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance determines what you can do in each of the various Zones within the County.
This Document is online at: www.stmarysmd.comClick on Public Agencies, Land Use & Growth Management, Ordinances, Zoning.Schedule 32.1 on page 32-3 of the Zoning Ordinance
For large projects or subdivisions you will need to hire a surveyor or an engineer or both.
Development Services
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Concept Plan
Let’s start with a Commercial or Public/Semi Public project:
Submission of a Concept Site Plan to the Technical Evaluation Committee, along with the application and various other forms.
Development Services
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TEC: Technical Evaluation Committee
• Distribute projects to all TEC agencies for review.
• Each Agency is required to review and return their comments by Monday following the TEC Meeting.
• Comments are then gathered and distributed to the Applicant, Surveyor, and Engineer of that project.
• The Applicant revises plans per comments and resubmits for final approval.
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Next Step: Planning Commission
The Planning Commission must find that the project:
1. Is consistent with the Comprehensive Plan.2. May be served by adequate public facilities.3. Is consistent with the County Annual Growth Policy4. Will promote the health, safety and welfare of the
general public.5. Includes recreational and community amenities.6. Is consistent with design standards.
Based upon their findings, the Planning Commission may deny the concept plan, approve the concept plan, or approve the concept plan with conditions.
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Next Step:
The Planning Commission’s action determines the next step.
• Denial: Requires justification. Options are revisions for compliance or appeal the decision to the Board of Appeals.
• Approved with conditions: Address the conditions prior to your Final Site Plan Approval.
• Approved: Proceed to the major site plan approval process.
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Major Site Plan
• These are detailed Site Plans that require professional engineering.
• These Plans are distributed back to the agencies for final review.
• Once all regulations have been met, final approval is issued.
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Major Site Plan
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Permit Process
Now that you have your Final Site Plan approval, (you should have already made or started your Permit application along with a submission of architectural drawings), you can proceed to complete the Permit Process.
Development Services
The Permit Process will be covered by the Permits Division.
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Subdivisions
• The Subdivision Ordinance regulates and controls the division and conveyance of land in accordance with state law.
• Subdivision plats must be signed and sealed by a licensed surveyor.
• There are different types of Subdivisions: Minor- 7 lots or less, farmstead-lots 15 acres in size or larger, or Major-8 or more lots.
Development Services
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Minor Subdivisions• TEC reviews• Agencies make comments• Applicant addresses all comments.• Final Approval is given• Record Plat is submitted
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Major Subdivisions• TEC reviews• Agencies make comments• Applicant addresses all comments.• Planning Commission grants preliminary plan approval.
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Preliminary Plan Approval
The Planning Commission must make the following findings:
1. Proposed development is consistent with the comprehensive plan.
2. Sufficient number of access points provided.3. Public facilities are adequate.4. Consistency with the Annual Growth Policy. 5. Access to adjoining land is provided.6. Stormwater management is adequate.7. The layout is consistent with design standards.8. Recreation amenities are provided.
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The Record Plat
• Once approved, a record plat package is submitted for review and approval.
• The package is sent to the Department of Public Works, Health Department, Metropolitan Commission for signature. Land Use & Growth Management has the final signature.
• Plats are then recorded in the Office of Land Records at the circuit court building.
• The plats become documents in the Maryland State Archives.
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Minor Site Plan
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Other Services
• Boundary Survey
• Boundary Line Adjustment Plat (BLAP)
• Confirmatory Plat
• Forest Conservation
• Text Amendments
• Transferrable Development Rights (TDR)
Development Services
Zoning Administration
Yvonne ChailletZoning Administrator
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Zoning Administration Staff
Yvonne Chaillet – Planner IV, Zoning Administrator
Kelly Palmer, CFM – Planner II, Environmental
CarrieAnn Pope, CFM – Planner I, Environmental
Jackie Green – Senior Planning Specialist
(VACANT) – Senior Office Specialist
Phone: 301-475-4200 ext. [email protected]
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Primary Responsibilities
• Environmental review
• Board of Appeals
• Sign review and approval
• Home occupation permit review
• Zoning text amendments
Zoning Administration
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Environmental Review
• Development in the Chesapeake Bay critical area.
• Clearing of vegetation in the critical area.
• Piers and shoreline erosion control measures.
• Development in a floodplain.
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Board of Appeals
• Five (5)-member board appointed by the Commissioners of St. Mary’s County.
• Critical area variances
• Standard variances
• Conditional uses
• Expansions of nonconforming uses and structures • Appeal of administrative decisions
Zoning Administration
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Sign Review and Approval
• Commercial message signs require a permit unless exempted by chapter 65 of the zoning ordinance.
• Exempt signs include construction, farm marketing, political campaign, real estate, parking & directional.
• Maximum sign area determined by zoning district and type of sign – freestanding, wall, and/ or projecting.
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Home Occupations
• A customary, incidental, and subordinate use of a
residential dwelling unit
• May be permitted in an accessory structure
• Accessory commercial uses
• Requires a permit
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Text Amendments
• County Commissioners may adopt, amend, or repeal any provision of the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance
• Require a public hearing before the Commissioners
• Amendments to the critical area provisions of the ordinance require approval by the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission
• Amendments to the floodplain regulations of the ordinance require approval by the Maryland Department of the Environment
Zoning Administration
PermitsHarry Knight
Permits Coordinator
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Permits Division Staff
Harry Knight – Permits Coordinator
Debbie Lynch – Permits Specialist II
Sherrie Young – Permits Specialist I
Kimberly Dale – Permits Specialist I
Lindsay Halterman – Stormwater Management
Plans Reviewer
Phone: 301-475-4200 ext. 1560E-mail: [email protected]
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Purpose of the Permits Division
• Permits authorize “development” (the use of land, the construction and occupancy of buildings and other structures).
• Permits are processed at the request of a home or property owner, business, non-profit, developer, or construction contractor.
• Permits are “approved” when the proposed “development” conforms to the regulations.
Zoning Administration
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Functions of the Permits Division
• The principal function is to process permit applications.
• There are more than 40 different types of permit applications to be processed.
• There are 18 different agencies or divisions thereof that need to be coordinated with depending on the type of permit application.
• An average of 2,200 applications per year.
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Functions of the Permits Division
• Collection of application, review and permit fees for 7 different agencies: Land Use & Growth Management, Public Works & Transportation, Recreation & Parks, Board of Electrical Examiners, Environmental Health, Soil Conservation, and the Metropolitan Commission.
• Fees are collected into 83 separate accounts.
• An average of 4.9 million dollars of fees are collected and deposited each year.
Zoning Administration
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Functions of the Permits Division
• Stormwater Management plan review of residential permits.
• Support Staff to the Board of Electrical Examiners.
• Weekly, monthly, and annual reports of total fees collected.
• Consult with public in person at the LUGM office, over the phone, and via e-mail.
Zoning Administration
Inspections & Compliance
Brian Taylor Code Coordinator
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Inspections & Compliance Division Staff
Brian Taylor – Code Coordinator
Valerie Joshway – Inspections Coordinator
George Thompson – Inspector III
Jackie Alvey – Inspector II
Pat Arnold – Inspector II
Larry Eberhard – Inspector II
Phone: 301-475-4200 ext. [email protected]
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Mission
Enforcing regulations to ensure the quality of life in St. Mary’s County
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Inspections Overview
The primary function of the Inspections and Compliance Division is to verify and gain compliance with all currently adopted St. Mary’s County Codes and Ordinances.
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Inspections Overview
Receive and inspect inquiries for possible violations to St. Mary’s County Code and Ordinances.
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Inspections Overview
Oversee third party agencies that conduct inspections for Building, Plumbing, Electric, Fuel Gas, and Stormwater Management.
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Inspections Overview
Meet with elected officials, staff, contractors, and the public to explain building codes and site development regulations.
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Daily Inspections
• Over-lot grading• Residential Stormwater Management• Critical Area• Forest Conservation• Floodplain• Commercial site final• Entrance• Minimum Livability• Blight Structures and Property• State required Balcony Inspection• Compliance with the Zoning Ordinance
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Additional Responsibilities
On call to perform Damage Assessment in the cases of manmade or natural disasters and events. Assist in incident management.
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Remember…
We’re not here to beat you up and take your money, we’re here to educate and gain compliance for the health and safety of the citizens of St. Mary’s County.
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Administration Services
Shelia SmithOffice Manager
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Administration Division Staff
Shelia Smith - Office Manager
Janice Blackistone - Fiscal Specialist IV
Jada Stuckert - Senior Administrator Coordinator
Marilyn Smith - Senior Office Specialist
Terry Kerns - Office Specialist
Phone: 301-475-4200 ext. [email protected]
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Provides Support to:
• Director • Deputy Director • Development Manager • Inspections Manager • Permits Manager • Planning Manager • Zoning Administration Manager • Board of Appeals• Planning Commission • Building Code Appeals Board • Electrical Board• Plumbing and Fuel Gas Board
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Duties
• Answering phones • Front counter customer services• Scheduling meetings and calendar maintenance • Typing and filing correspondence • Scanning/archiving applications, site plans, deeds,
receipts, and approval documents.• Update and maintenance to the land, parcel, and permits databases. • Payroll, evaluations, and personnel documents for
thirty nine (39) employees.• Budget, grant, cash receipts, and purchasing. • Reconciliation Reports and Year-End Auditing Services
for LUGM and the Department of Finance.Administration Services
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Text Amendment Services
• Updating the Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Ordinance with adopted amendments.
• Mass mailing Commissioners, departments, citizens, and outside agencies all adopted amendments and updated pages due to revisions to the Zoning and Subdivision Ordinances.
• Update and maintain legal motions, ordinances, appeals, and resolutions for the Commissioners, departments, committees, and boards.
Administration Services
