Environmental Stewardship

Forest Conservation

• Forest conservation requirements on private property should be re-examined;
  regulations currently perform like a taking; property owners need education on how to manage the conservation areas and what actions are allowed.

Sensitive Areas

• Improve the streams, bogs, floodplains, and wetlands map by clarifying the flood hazard zone and tidal floodplain; also show contributing drainage areas for bogs.

Community Preservation

Commercial Revitalization

• People are in favor of commercial revitalization using incentives and other tools to encourage owners to make improvements rather than putting all the responsibility on the owner.
• Citizens support the A&E concept to help revitalize Brooklyn Park.

Neighborhood Conservation

• Establish overlay districts to protect the character of communities.
• Preserve the community character of Jessup.
• Jessup community does not want a six-lane highway through it.

Protecting Historic Resources

• There needs to be an index of properties listed on the Scenic and Historic Roads / Historic Sites map; cemeteries should be identified wherever possible.
• Clarification is needed for Scenic and Historic Patuxent River Road description at WB&A Trail because there is a discrepancy between the map and the text description.

Quality Public Services

Recreation and Parks

• Community Center will be needed for Crofton area; a location near Crofton library would be ideal; should have different facilities like a meeting room of 1240 people, performing arts place with mirror walls, basket ball and volley ball courts, storage place, place for martial arts, and a limited kitchen service.
• If the community center near the Crofton library is not feasible, school property located at the intersection of Rte. 424 and Duke of Kent could be alternate site.

Library Services

• Current Annapolis library location is very walkable and it should be expanded into a regional library.

Balanced Growth

• Would like to see some areas northeast and southeast of the MD 100 / Baltimore-Washington Parkway interchange converted from industrial to commercial uses.
• The County needs to increase it's availability of affordable housing (e.g. 60% of the Area Median Income - AMI - or less), and should consider measures such as inclusionary zoning as a way to provide such housing.
• The County should resist the development community argument that mandatory percentages of affordable housing remove their profit incentives to complete a project.
• The County should continue their long term efforts in providing Transit Oriented Development.