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COUNTY LOCAL LAWS

WHEREAS, the Planning Board and the County Council have
already held and concluded public hearings on the Plan and
implementing growth management legislation; and

WHEREAS, the Final Report of the Planning Board
recommends that the County Council take action with respect
to the Plan In Progress Bill; and

WHEREAS, the County Council recently received the
report and recommendation of the Planning Board with respect
to both the Plan and growth management legislation, which
are complicated and complex and which require careful study
and evaluation; and

WHEREAS, both the Plan and growth management
legislation are now pending and have been exposed to public
review and attention; and

WHEREAS, absent this extension, the County Council
would be compelled to either act hastily on the Plan and
implementing legislation or to allow a lapse between the
Plan In Progress Bill and the adoption of new permanent
growth management legislation which would permit the
acquisition of vested rights and the establishment of
non-conforming uses in conflict with the proposed Plan and
detrimental to such Plan; and

WHEREAS, said extension will be for a limited period of
not more than forty (40) days, that being the time period
within which the County Council by Charter must act on
legislation introduced by the Council; and

WHEREAS, the Plan in growth management legislation will
be introduced on Monday, October 15, 1979 at the time of
adoption of this Bill for extension of the Plan in Progress
Bill, thereby assuring action by the Council on the Plan and
growth management legislation within forty (40) days and
assuring that this extension need not exceed (40) days; now,
therefore

Approved October 15, 1979.

HARFORD COUNTY

Bill No. 79-2 (as amended)

AN EMERGENCY ACT to repeal and re-enact, with
amendments, Section 20.2, heading, Hearing Examiners, of
Article 20, heading, Board of Appeals, and Section 21.6, of
Article 21, heading Cyclic Method for Processing Rezoning
Applications, of the Harford County Zoning Ordinance,
Ordinance No. 6; to provide for the employment of Hearing
Examiners to hear those cases to be heard by the Board of
Appeals; to provide for the Hearing Examiners to make a
decision in zoning appeal and reclassification cases; to