Title
2024 City of Annapolis Comprehensive Plan - For the purpose of adopting a new comprehensive plan for the City of Annapolis.
Body
CITY COUNCIL OF THE
City of Annapolis
Resolution 4-24
Introduced by: Mayor Buckley
Co-sponsored by:
Referred to
Rules & City Government Committee
AN ORDINANCE concerning
2024 City of Annapolis Comprehensive Plan
FOR the purpose of adopting a new comprehensive plan for the City of Annapolis.
WHEREAS: The Land Use Article, Division 1, of the Maryland Code requires local jurisdictions to "enact, adopt, amend, and execute" a comprehensive plan; and
WHEREAS: The comprehensive plan shall be assembled by the planning commission and, per Title 3 of the Land Use Article, Division 1, include the following elements:
1. Community facilities;
2. Areas of critical State concern;
3. Goals and objectives;
4. Housing;
5. Land use;
6. Development regulations;
7. Sensitive areas;
8. Transportation;
9. Water resources;
10. Municipal growth; and
WHEREAS: The planning commission may include in the plan additional elements to advance the purposes of the plan, including the following:
1. Community renewal;
2. Conservation;
3. Flood control;
4. Natural resources;
5. Pollution control;
6. General location and extent of public utilities; and
7. A priority preservation area element developed in accordance with ? 2-518 of the Agriculture Article; and
WHEREAS: The Annapolis City Council adopted such a comprehensive plan for the City in 1962, 1985, 1998, and 2009; and
WHEREAS: In 2019, the Planning and Zoning Department staff began assisting the City of Annapolis Planning Commission in preparing the new plan, which included the following:
1. An assessment of the 2009 Comprehensive Plan, including its level of implementation; changes to the city since the adoption of the Plan; and new opportunities and challenges facing Annapolis today;
2. The collection and analyses of current information on demographic and market trends; munici...
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