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Housing and Community Affairs, Department of, duties and

responsibilities connected with zoning regulation transferred from

former Department of Housing and Community Development ........... 5530

Lawn maintenance service, permitted use and regulation as registered

home occupation, provisions added ........................................................ 5529

Life sciences center (LSC) zone, added to industrial zones to provide for

major research and development park for facilities specializing in life

sciences and related fields ...................................................................... 5530

Off-street parking allowed in industrial I-1 zone in connection with any

use permitted in a commercial zone ....................................................... 5433

Office buildings that are nonconforming in CBD zones, conversion to

housing and minor expansion to improve lobby and public waiting

areas, provisions added ........................................................................... 5434

Office structures in C-O zone, conversion to residential use, provisions

added......................................................................................................... 5434

Outdoor storage of unbagged mulch in C-1 and C-2 zones, restrictions

added......................................................................................................... 5526

Permitting Services, Department of -

Functions concerning historic resources preservation transferred from

Department of Environmental Protection .......................................... 5532

Functions concerning subdivision regulation transferred to ................ 5531

Functions concerning zoning regulation transferred from
Departments of Environmental Protection and Health and Human

Services ................................................................................................. 5531

Planning Implementation, Office of, abolished, and functions

transferred to Office of the County Executive....................................... 5513

Productivity Housing -

Program, established for certain commercial and industrial zones ..... 5532

Repealed as allowable special exception use ......................................... 5523

Public Works and Transportation, Department of -

Subdivision regulation duties and responsibilities transferred to ....... 5527

Zoning regulation duties and responsibilities transferred from

Department of Transportation ............................................................ 5526

Special exception zoning decisions, oral argument procedure and

reconsideration procedures, provisions amended .................................. 5526

Telecommunication facilities, zoning provisions altered .......................... 5528

Telecommunications transmission facilities, siting and policy

coordination, provisions added ................................................................ 5513

Transferable Development Rights -

Easements, time of recordation for subdivisions using transferable

development rights, provisions altered ............................................... 5528

Showing of ownership as a condition for approval of preliminary

plans, time provisions altered ............................................................. 5528

Transit station zones TS-R and TS-M, minimum area for development

and open space requirements, provisions clarified ............................... 5530

Queen Anne's County -
Chesapeake Bay Critical Area, growth allocation assignment to

proposed development projects located outside designated growth

areas, provisions amended ...................................................................... 5454

Lot, definition in Zoning Ordinance altered ............................................. 5455

Talbot County -

Board of Appeals, rules of procedure amended ......................................... 5545

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