2540                                County Local Laws

Arundel County Code (1967 Edition and Supplements), Title 13, "Plan-
ning and Zoning", Subtitle 3, "Zoning", to follow immediately after Sec-
tion 13-317.6 thereof (as enacted by Bill No. 20-70), to be under the
new Article VI, "Special Districts", heading "OS-Open Space Districts",
and to read as follows:

Article VI—Special Districts
OS—Open Space Districts

Section 13-318—In General

(a)    Open space districts shall preserve open areas for recreational
uses, protect persons and property against hazards of floods and water
pollution, and protect the County against the costs which may be incurred
resulting when development which is not compatible with the natural
environment occurs. Such districts shall guide, define and protect develop-
ment, communities and land uses through proper location of open space
areas.

(b)    Open Space Districts shall include:

(1)    All lands within the Natural Drainage System (including wet-
lands, marshlands, swamplands, and all lands within the fifty (50) year
floodplain).

(2)    All private and public lands used or proposed to be used for
passive and active recreation at a community or regional level.

(3)    All lands designated as structural open space in the Anne Arundel
County General Development Plan.

(c)    For purposes of this heading:

(1)    "Coastal floodplain" means coastal wetlands, tidal marshes and
contiguous uplands which are inundated regularly or intermittently from
normal tidal cycles and/or peak—lunar and storm tides. The upland limit
of peak storm tide (and the limit of the coastal floodplain) shall be
established at the upland United States Coastal Geodetic Survey contour
representing the local maximum flood of record of maximum historical
flood.

(2)    "Community Recreation" shall include recreation facilities used
primarily by people living in large geographical areas of the County.

(3)    "Floodplain" means that area which would be inundated by storm
water runoff, equivalent to that which would occur from a rainfall of
fifty (50) year frequency after total development of the watershed; said
area defined by an elevation plus one foot (1') below which no develop-
ment may take place.

(4)    "Natural Drainage System" shall consist of upland, floodplain
lands, and water courses, including coastal wetlands. Such lands and waters
may include but not be limited to all uplands exhibiting fifteen percent
(15%) or greater slopes, all fresh, salt or brackish water, swamps, bogs,
marshes, streams, vernal ponds, ponds, lakes, and all lands within the
coastal floodplain.

(5)    "Regional Recreation" shall include recreational facilities used
to a great extent by people living in all parts of the Baltimore-Washington
Region ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY.

(d)    The below listed uses shall be approved by the Office of Planning
and Zoning, in addition to the agencies indicated below: