Comprehensive Plan Update FAQs
- What is a Comprehensive Plan?
- What is a Zoning Ordinance?
- Who is involved in updating the Calvert County Comprehensive Plan?
- What does a Comprehensive Plan do?
- Why is a Comprehensive Plan needed?
- Why are we updating ours now?
- How does the Zoning Ordinance relate to the Comprehensive Plan?
- What is the timeline?
- How will the public be involved?
- What is Calvert County's history with Comprehensive Plans?
- Whom should I contact for more information?
- Does the Comprehensive Plan draft call for expanded town centers? Why?
- Is the Prince Frederick Town Center to be significantly expanded? Why?
- Is it true that traffic in Prince Frederick is projected to reach 83,500 trips per day by 2030?
- Is it true the draft Comprehensive Plan ignores Maryland Department of Transportation studies predicting future transportation impacts in Prince Frederick even before its proposed expansion?
- Shouldn’t studies be conducted on local traffic before any town centers are expanded?
- Why does the draft Comprehensive Plan designate Dunkirk as a “major town center?”
- If land preservation is a goal of the Comprehensive Plan, why has there been a moratorium on Agricultural Preservation Districts since 2013?
- Why has land preservation slowed in Calvert County?
- Is it true the draft Comprehensive Plan has no recommendations to improve the county’s effort to preserve 40,000 acres of farm and forest land?
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