Ch. 10

1996 LAWS OF MARYLAND

2.       Identifies appropriate post-excavation uses for this land that
are consistent with the county's land planning process;

3.       Incorporates land use policies and recommendations for
regulations to balance mineral resource extraction with other land uses and, to the extent
feasible, to prevent the preemption of mineral resources extraction by other uses; and

4.       Has been reviewed by the Department of Natural Resources
to determine whether the proposed plan is consistent with the programs and goals of the
Department;

(vi) An element which shall contain the planning commission's
recommendation for land development regulations to implement the plan and which
encourages the following:

1.       Streamlined review of applications for development,
including permit review and subdivision plat review within the areas designated for
growth in the plan;

2.       The use of flexible development regulations to promote
innovative and cost-saving site design and protect the environment; and

3.       Economic development in areas designated for growth in the
plan through the use of innovative techniques;

(vii) Recommendations for the determination, identification, and
designation of areas within the county which are of critical State concern; and

(viii) A sensitive area element that contains goals, objectives, principles,
policies, and standards designed to protect, from the adverse effects of development,
sensitive areas, including the following:

1.       Streams and their buffers;

2.       100-year floodplains;

3.       Habitats of threatened and endangered species; and

4.       Steep slopes.

DRAFTER'S NOTE:

Error: Erroneous word in Article 66B, § 3.05(a)(1); extraneous conjunction
in Article 66B, § 3.05(a)(1)(v)2.

Occurred: Ch. 672, Acts of 1970; as a result of Ch. 529, Acts of 1993,
correction by the Michie Company in the 1995 Replacement Volume of
Volume 5 is validated by this Act.

4.08.

(a) Any person or persons, jointly or severally, aggrieved by any decision of the
board of appeals, or by a zoning action by the local legislative body, or any taxpayer, or
any officer, department, board, bureau of the jurisdiction, may appeal the same to the

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