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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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H.B. 1000
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property to the Foundation which protects the property from further development.
While the bill applies to only five properties in Carroll County, I am concerned about
the policy and precedent of House Bill 1000. House Bill 1000 is another in a
continuing series of bills that have been introduced in the past few years to weaken
the easement restrictions purchased by MALPF. In this instance, the conditions of the
sale of the easement were known to the owners of the property at the time of the sale
over 12 years ago. Now, legislation is introduced to retroactively change those
conditions.
During the 2002 Session, the Maryland Department of Agriculture opposed House
Bill 1000 in the House and Senate. The opposition was based, in part, on the
precedent that would be set in House Bill 1000. As passed, the bill applies only in
Carroll County and only for easements sold prior to January 1990. The bill also allows
the easement restrictions to be lifted for any subsequent landowner, rather than the
current provisions that permit the release of easement restrictions for the landowner
or a child of the landowner. Having taken this step, what is to discourage the
continued erosion of MALPF in future years through the expansion of the exception to
other counties, to easements sold prior to a later date or to other interested
purchasers of one acre dwelling houses under different conditions? We have protected
over one million acres of land in Maryland and, for the first time, we are preserving
more land than we are losing to development. House Bill 1000 is one of several bills'
that passed this year and in prior years which, taken together, would seriously erode
our efforts to preserve land for future generations. I respectfully urge future
Governors and future legislatures to remain vigilant in these protection efforts and,
proceed cautiously in altering these programs.
For the above reasons, I have vetoed House Bill 1000.
Sincerely,
Parris N. Glendening
Governor
House Bill No. 1000
AN ACT concerning
Agricultural Land Preservation - Easements - Dwelling House
FOR the purpose of providing that a landowner who originally sold an easement to
the Maryland Agricultural Land Preservation Foundation may apply to the
Foundation for a release of a certain amount of acreage for a certain landowner
in a certain county for the purpose of constructing a dwelling house under
certain circumstances; prohibiting a landowner from subdividing a dwelling
house from the property covered by the easement; providing for the termination
of this Act; and generally relating to agricultural land preservation.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Agriculture
Section 2-513(b)
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