1944

LAWS OF MARYLAND

Ch. 708

the orderly, integrated development of the region; and

(15) execute any and all instruments and do
and perform any and all acts or things necessary,
convenient, or desirable for its purposes or to carry out
the powers expressly given in this section.

(e)    Organization and committees. The Council
shall elect a chairman from among its members and shall
publish rules and establish committees to carry on its
work. Such committees may have as members persons other
than members of the Council and other than elected
officials.

(f)    Director and staff. The Council shall appoint
a director who shall be qualified by training and
experience and shall serve at the pleasure of the
Council. The director shall be the chief administrative
and planning officer and regular technical advisor of the
Council and shall appoint and remove the staff of the
Council. The director may make agreements with local
planning agencies, within the jurisdiction of the
Tri-County Council of Public Officials, for temporary
transfer or joint use of staff employees and may contract
for professional or consultant services from other
governmental and private agencies.

(g)    General development plan. Tri—County Council
shall prepare, adopt, and from time to time revise or
amend a general development plan for the development of
the Region. The plan shall guide a coordinated,
adjusted, efficient and economic development of the
Region which will, in accordance with present and future
needs and resources best promote the health, safety,
order, convenience, prosperity and welfare of the
citizens, provide for patterns of urbanization and the
uses of land and resources for trade, industry,
recreation, forestry, agriculture, and tourism, and
create conditions favorable to the development of human
resources, and otherwise promote the general welfare of
the citizens. Such plan shall identify the public
interest and the necessity for public action and
intergovernmental cooperation and coordination within the
Region and shall be coordinated with the efforts of the
private sector within the Region. The general
development plan shall embody the policy recommendations
of the Council and shall include, but not be limited to:

(1)    a statement of the objectives, standards
and principles sought to be expressed in the plan;

(2)    recommendations for the most desirable
pattern and intensity of general land use within the
region in the light of the best available information
concerning natural environmental factors, the present and
prospective economic and demographic basis of the area,
and the relation of land use within the area to land use
in the adjoining areas;