HARRY HUGHES, Governor                                      2115

can be classified as an intensely developed area in the
Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas adding to criteria adopted by
the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission certain
conditions on development in the Critical Area; authorizing
certain types of new development in certain portions of the
Critical Area; establishing certain requirements that local
jurisdictions will have to meet in planning for and
permitting certain types of new development in certain
portions of the Critical Area; requiring certain clustering
of development in certain areas of the Critical Area; and
generally relating to the growth allocation in the Resource
Conservation Area of the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area.

BY adding to

Article - Natural Resources

Section 8-1808.1

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1983 Replacement Volume and 1985 Supplement)

Preamble

WHEREAS, To protect the Chesapeake Bay, the General Assembly
enacted Chapter 794 of the Acts of 1984; and

WHEREAS, Under Chapter 79.4 of the Acts of 1984, the
Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission adopted regulations under
COMAR 14.15.02.03.A. to define what constitutes an intensely
developed area in the Critical Areas; and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly intends this bill to redefine
what constitutes an intensely developed area in the Critical
Areas; now, therefore, 14.15.02.05 and .06 concerning development
in Resource Conservation Areas of the Critical Area; and

WHEREAS, The General Assembly intends this Act to authorize
certain additional types of development and to add certain
conditions on new development in the Resource Conservation Area;
now, therefore,

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

Article - Natural Resources

8-1808.1.

(A) THIS SECTION APPLIES NOTWITHSTANDING:

(1) ANY OTHER PROVISION OF THIS SUBTITLE, OR

(2) ANY CRITERIA OR REGULATION OF THE COMMISSION
ADOPTED UNDER THIS SUBTILE.