2214                                          LAWS OF MARYLAND                                     Ch. 335

Mineral Resources - Local Comprehensive Plans

FOR the purpose of requiring that the comprehensive or general
plan of a county or municipal corporation contain a mineral
resources plan element under certain circumstances; making
these requirements applicable to charter counties; making
stylistic changes; and generally establishing a requirement
for a mineral resources plan element for all local
governments.

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 66B - Zoning and Planning

Section 3.05(a) and 7.03

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1984 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 66B - Zoning and Planning

3.05.

(a) It shall be the function and duty of the commission to
make and approve a plan which shall be recommended to the local
legislative body for adoption and which shall serve as a guide to
public and private actions and decisions to insure the
development of public and private property in appropriate
relationships and which shall include any areas outside of its
boundaries which, in the commission's judgment, bear relation to
the planning responsibilities of the commission. The elements of
the plan may be exercised in words, graphics, or other
appropriate form. They shall be interrelated and each element
shall describe how it relates to each of the other elements and
to the statement of objectives, principles, policies, and
standards.

(1) The plan shall contain as a minimum the following
elements:

[(1)] (I) A statement of goals and objectives,
principles, policies, and standards which shall serve as a guide
for the development and economic and social well-being of the
jurisdiction;

[(2)] (II) A land use plan element which shall
show proposals for the most appropriate and desirable patterns
for the general location, character, extent, and
interrelationship of the manner in which the community should use
its public and private land at specified times as far into the
future as is reasonable. Such land use may include, without
being limited to, public and private, residential, commercial,
industrial, agricultural, and recreational land uses;