File #: R-34-14    Version: 1 Name:
Type: Resolution Status: Adopted
File created: 10/20/2014 In control: City Council
On agenda: 11/23/2015 Final action: 11/23/2015
Title: 2014 West Annapolis Sector Study - For the purpose of adopting the West Annapolis Sector Study as an addendum to the 2009 Annapolis Comprehensive Plan.
Sponsors: Fred Paone
Indexes: Planning Commission, Rules and City Government Committee
Attachments: 1. R-34-14 West Annapolis Sector Study.pdf, 2. West Annapolis Sector Study, 3. R-34-14 Request for Postponement to Oct 12.pdf, 4. R-34-14 Fiscal Impact.pdf, 5. R-34-14 Planning Commission Findings.pdf, 6. Summary of West Annapolis Sector Study.pdf, 7. R-34-14 Signed.pdf

Title

2014 West Annapolis Sector Study - For the purpose of adopting the West Annapolis Sector Study as an addendum to the 2009 Annapolis Comprehensive Plan.

 

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CITY COUNCIL OF THE

City of Annapolis

 

Resolution No. R-34-14

 

Introduced by: Alderman Paone

 

Referred to

Rules and City Government

Planning Commission

 

 

A RESOLUTION concerning

 

2014 West Annapolis Sector Study

 

FOR                      the purpose of adopting the West Annapolis Sector Study as an addendum to the 2009 Annapolis Comprehensive Plan.

 

WHEREAS,                      The Maryland Annotated Code, Land Use Article, Title 3, requires municipalities to adopt comprehensive plans, which are to include policies, statements, goals, and interrelated plans for private and public land use, transportation, and community facilities, and which are to be documented in texts and maps that constitute the guide for future development; and

 

WHEREAS,                      the Annapolis City Council adopted successive comprehensive plans for the City in 1975, 1985, 1998, and 2009; and

 

WHEREAS,                      on October 5, 2009 the Annapolis City Council adopted the 2009 Annapolis Comprehensive Plan pursuant to R-32-09Amended, which is still in effect; and

 

WHEREAS,                      pursuant to the stated policy of the 2009 Annapolis Comprehensive Plan to study the West Annapolis Opportunity Area as it is a major gateway into Annapolis with good highway and transit accessibly to U.S. Route 50, MD Route 450, and downtown.

 

WHEREAS,                      the West Annapolis Sector Study Committee, conducted public forums, solicited input from stakeholders, and developed a Draft West Annapolis Sector Study;

 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY that the Draft West Annapolis Sector Study, attached to this Resolution, is also available online at:

<http://www.annapolis.gov/government/city-departments/planning-and-zoning/west-annapolis-sector-study> is hereby adopted; and

 

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the West Annapolis Sector Study be, and the same hereby, made part of the 2009 Annapolis Comprehensive Plan.

 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED BY THE ANNAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL that the adoption of the

West Annapolis Sector Study shall not be construed as an approval of individual projects that may be recommended therein, and that the Annapolis City Council reserves the right to consider, debate, oppose, support, or modify specific actions that may come before the Council and that are intended to implement specific elements of the Plan.

 

EXPLANATION

CAPITAL LETTERS indicate matter added to existing law.

Strikethrough indicates matter stricken from existing law.

Underlining indicates amendments.