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AN ACT adopting HoCo By Design as the general plan for Howard County, Maryland which includes a Plan for the Route 1 Corridor, for the purpose of planning for land use and land conservation and multiyear development planning for transportation, public facilities, water, sewerage, parkland, housing, human services, and environmental protection; and generally relating to planning, zoning, and land use in Howard County, Maryland. |
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This Amendment adds language about the use of public-private partnerships to facilitate mixed-use activity centers with a mix of for-sale and rental housing in redevelopment projects and adds an implementing action that such models shall be explored. |
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This Amendment adds language about the County’s Live Where You Work program and adds the evaluation of other programs for home ownership opportunities as an action item. |
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This Amendment adds a statement that the working group tasked with establishing the feasibility of a targeted incentive program for affordable and accessible housing shall run concurrent with the evaluation of APFO.
This amendment also makes a technical correction to use the term “affordable” instead of “attainable” to low- and moderate-income and special needs households. |
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This Amendment corrects terminology surrounding home sharing. |
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This Amendment provides support for mobile home parks as affordable home ownership and rental opportunities. Additionally, should redevelopment opportunities arise, especially in areas close to transit, the County should strive for a minimum of one-to-one replacement of affordable units and relocation assistance should be provided along with strategies to keep social and familial connections together.
This Amendment creates a new implementing action to include these goals. |
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This Amendment adds that townhouses and condominiums will be considered when exploring options for acquisition/rehabilitation programs to support homeownership opportunities for moderate income households. |
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This Amendment adds a statement that the Zoning Regulations and Subdivision and Land Development Regulations shall provide flexibility regarding opportunities to locate housing for the homeless or individuals with special needs in close proximity to jobs, amenities and transportation connections. |
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This Amendment adds language that
reflects the challenges facing commercial properties on Route 1. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 79 makes the following changes:
1. In Chapter 3, Ecological Health, amends Policy 5 related to stormwater management requirements in order to encourage redevelopment to meet stormwater management requirements for new development to the maximum extent possible.
2. In Chapter 11, makes corresponding changes to the changes made in chapter 3 to Policy 5. |
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This Amendment adds an action item to develop criteria for zoning changes for suburban commercial character areas adjacent to redeveloping activity centers. |
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This Amendment amends HoCo By Design Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods to remove language about specific housing types in the Rural Crossroads and substituting general language about maintaining the rural character of the West if housing options are expanded. |
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This Amendment adds a statement acknowledging the need to partner with organizations that provide critical health care services to the community and adds a policy statement that the County will continue to partner with entities that provide critical services such as higher education and health care facilities. This amendment also adds an implementing action acknowledging the County’s support of such organizations. |
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This Amendment corrects typographical errors in Table 10-3, Tentative Allocations
Granted Since 2010 Allocation Year. |
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This Amendment adds a workgroup to evaluate and set goals surrounding targeted incentive programs for affordable and accessible housing. The workgroup will also establish criteria for the affordable housing set aside in the APFO Allocations Chart. |
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This Amendment adds a sentence to indicate that the Plans listed are not an exhaustive list of all functional plans that may be used to implement HoCo By Design. |
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In the Route 1 Corridor, a Plan for Washington Boulevard, this Amendment substitutes a new Chart RTE 1-1, Zoning Makeup Route 1 Corridor, in order to make the percentages more legible. |
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This Amendment:
1. Corrects numbers included in the overview of the Howard County Public School System
2. Clarifies statements about the number of schools under 110% capacity
3. Inserts 2022 enrollment data
4. Inserts Fiscal Year 2024 budget information. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 6, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Amends the DN-5 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to have the working group study incentives for homeownership opportunities where 50% of the units are affordable homeownership and 50% of the units are affordable rental;
- Amends the DN-11 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to ensure Universal Design Guidelines are utilized for at least 10% of all af |
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This Amendment removes language that highlights the struggles of other communities. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 10 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 10: Managing Growth - Amends MG-1 Policy Statement to include consideration of shifting away from APFO in favor of an Exceptional Community Ordinance; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends MG-1 Policy Statement to include consideration of shifting away from APFO in favor of an Exceptional Community Ordinance. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 8, Chapter 10, Chapter 11, Technical Appendix B, and Technical Appendix C:
Chapter 8: Public School Facilities - Amends the PS-1 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to include the Gateway Regional Activity Center in the planning of activity center school capacity projects;
Chapter 10: Managing Growth - Amends the Residential Growth Targets, 2020-2040 section to specify that establishing commercial, housing, school capacity, |
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This Amendment adds a note to Maps 6-4, 6-5 and 6-6 that directs the reader to refer to Map 6-7 to see housing types permitted within New Town. |
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This Amendment makes a technical correction to insert the date that the Market Research and Demand Forecast was published. |
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This Amendment adds a chart titled “Future Growth Potential by the Numbers” to clarify future growth projections and the pacing of potential future units.
This amendment also removes the graphic on the top of page 11 and replaces it with a Table titled “Potential Growth 2020-2040”. |
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This Amendment adds the following maps into Chapter 2, Growth and Conservation Framework:
1. Map 2-3, the General Plan Map
2. Map 2-4, Activity Centers. |
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This Amendment adds a note to the Future Land Use Map that the Map does not dictate zoning district boundaries but will be a guiding factor in the Comprehensive Rezoning and Map Amendment processes. |
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This Amendment makes a technical correction to clarify that the County will update County regulations in addition to programs and policies when addressing ecological health. |
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This Amendment adds an Implementation Action to support sensitive environmental resources by exploring the creation of site-sensitive and enhanced site design outcomes during the zoning regulation update process. |
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This Amendment adds reference to the County’s Climate Action and Resiliency Plan,
or the most recently adopted Plan. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Adds a planning effort for the reuse of any quarry site that ceases operation during the planning horizon for HoCo By Design;
- Amends the EH-13 Policy Statement Implementing Action to require an exploration of future reuses of sites; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends the EH-13 Policy Statement Implementing Action to require an exploration of future reuses of sites. |
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This Amendment adds a statement that accessory dwelling units are accessory to the primary residential use and should not be eligible for subdivision and further describes location-specific criteria for ADUs in an implementing action. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 100 adds data from the Housing Opportunities Master plan and describes rental units throughout the County. |
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This Amendment amends an implementing action to provide that the Green Neighborhood program will be used to advance other General Plan polices and will result in more innovative demonstration projects for future green development. |
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This Amendment makes a technical correction to use updated tree canopy information. |
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This Amendment makes a technical correction to include more recent tree canopy data and to indicate the year for census tract income data on the legend for Maps 3-4 and 3-5. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 4, County in Motion, and Chapter 11, Implementation:
1. Improves language surrounding regional transportation connections with high frequency train service provided by the Penn Commuter Rail Line
2. Adds language surrounding the engagement of regional partners to support and advance connections included in local and regional plans
3. Adds language that Development Regulations should require site plans that address access by |
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This Amendment provides a history of the noise associated with Baltimore Washington International (BWI) Airport, the Airport-Noise Zone (ANZ), the Federal Aviation Administration’s NextGen satellite guidance system, and the BWI Roundtable.
The Amendment also adds a policy statement (CIM Policy Action 10) and related Implementing Action that the County shall explore the opportunities to reduce the impacts of noise and air pollution generated by air travel and shall ensure that future residen |
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This Amendment makes a technical correction to Tables 5-2 and 5-3 to include Howard County Government and Howard County Public School System employees, to indicate that Freshly has closed as of early 2023 and to list the source citation for Table 5-3. |
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This Amendment corrects references to the Market Overview & Background Research study which was prepared by RCLCO. |
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This Amendment makes a technical correction to the percentage of rental housing reflected in the note following Graph 6-3. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 79 makes the following changes:
1. In Chapter 3, Ecological Health, removes an action to develop open space percentage requirements for activity centers; provides that Green Building requirements will be updated; restores incentivizing natural resource protection and restoration while removing reference to the Green Neighborhood program; and removes an implementing action requiring that redevelopment shall meet new development stormwater requirements;
2. In Cha |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Technical appendix B: Character Areas:
- Moves Village Activity Centers from Areas to Transform to Areas to Strengthen;
- Amends the narrative of how Village Activity Centers should transition between uses and how public spaces should be included between buildings;
- Removes the section titled “Lot Size and Building Placement” in its entirety; and
- Removes a reference to buildings being up to five stories tall. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Technical appendix C: Focus Areas:
- Removes the entire section on New Town Columbia, including removing associated images and Map C-1: New Town Columbia;
- Amends the Apartment Complex Redevelopment Illustrative Concept to preserve garden-style green space with frontage to the road;
- Removes a reference to Columbia from an illustration of housing redevelopment;
- Amends the Parking Lot Infill Development Illustrative Concept to e |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 6 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Amends the DN-5 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to implement a required minimum allocation of units for seniors and people with disabilities for a development receiving local funding; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends the DN-5 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to implement a required minimum allocation of units for seniors and people with disabilities for a |
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This Amendment amends HoCo by Design Chapter 7: Quality by Design to add strengthened requirements for higher level architectural design when redevelopment is identifying current styles. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 10: Managing Growth:
- Amends the narrative section titled “Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO)” and Table 10-1 to:
• Remove the Green Neighborhood column;
• Removes the Affordable Housing column and substitutes an Affordable For Purchase Units column and a Affordable Rental Housing Units column;
• Increases the Affordable For Purchase and the Affordable Rental Units allocation from 150 to 250 annually; and
• Reduc |
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This Amendment amends HoCo by Design Chapter 8: Public School Facilities to remove the third paragraph in the narrative section titled “Sources of Student Growth”. |
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This Amendment amends HoCo by Design Chapter 8: Public School Facilities to remove a reference to how a future change in unit type mix will yield fewer new students and substitute that the future change in the housing mix will result in an unknown number of new students. |
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This Amendment amends HoCo by Design Chapter 8: Public School Facilities to add that the County should maximize school construction revenue from the State by offering the local match each year. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 9 and 11:
Chapter 9: Supporting Infrastructure
Chapter 11: Implementation
- Add a new Implementing Action to Policy Statement INF-1 to consider adjusting the Transfer Tax distribution formula to emphasize funding of maintenance and school construction; and
- Add a new Implementing Action to Policy Statement INF-1 to consider adjusting the Transfer Tax distribution formula to emphasize funding of maintenance an |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 5 and 11 to:
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Adds a new Policy Statement EP-14 and corresponding Implementing Actions which pertain to consolidating fragmented agricultural supports
Chapter 11: Implementation - Adds a new Policy Statement EP-14 and corresponding Implementing Actions which pertain to consolidating fragmented agricultural supports. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 5 and 11 to:
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Amends an Implementing Action in Policy Statement EP-12 to add agritourism to the barriers that should be reduced; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends an Implementing Action in Policy Statement EP-12 to add agritourism to the barriers that should be reduced. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 10 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 10: Managing Growth - Amends the description of demand from “pent-up” to “potential”;
- Clarifies that the FLUM is only illustrative at the parcel level and that targeting activity centers does not mean they can or will be redeveloped;
- Amends the proposed process for Zoning Regulations amendments to consider allowing limited accessory dwelling units;
- Amends map 10-2 to reflect the 2023 Schoo |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 5 and 11 to:
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity Adds a new Implementing Action in Policy Statement EP-10 to recognize the Agricultural Land Preservation Program Fund as a funding source not only for acquisition of easements, but for the promotion and backing of the agriculture industry and operating businesses; and
Chapter 11: Implementation Adds a new Implementing Action in Policy Statement EP-10 to recognize the Agricultural L |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 2 to:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Amends a statement to clarify that PSA expansions are intended for a public or institutional use such as a religious facility, philanthropic institution, academic school. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 1:
Chapter 1: Introduction - Clarifies that the General Plan is the County’s growth plan;
- Removes a reference under definition of Predictability to detail and specificity;
- Under An Inflection Point, strikes a reference to Activity Centers;
- Adds notation under Every Voice regarding the number of individuals actively engaged in the plan process;
- Adds women and disabled owners to the list of small business owners to b |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 2:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Removes a sentence that forecasts pent up housing demand under Market Demand Projections;
- Removes a paragraph about demands for homes and jobs;
- Removes a reference to hybrid scenario being used to create the FLUM and specified the four scenarios and concepts that were used;
- Adds a paragraph about the four development scenarios;
- Removes a reference to “ground truthin |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 2, 6, 10, 11, and Appendix B to:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Deletes a reference to detached accessory dwelling units in the Rural West;
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods
- Deletes references to detached accessory dwelling units in Policy Statement DN-2 and the subsequent Implementing Action;
- Deletes a reference to detached accessory dwelling units occurring during the renovation of existing homes;
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 2, 3, 6, and 7 to:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Deletes references to 39 percent of County land is protected;
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Deletes two references to 39 percent County land is parkland, open space, and easements;
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Deletes a reference to 39 percent County land is permanently preserved as parkland, open space, agricultural or environmental uses;
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 9 and Chapter 11):
Chapter 9: Supporting Infrastructure
Chapter 11: Implementation - Adds a requirement to the INF-2 Policy Statement’s Implementing Actions to develop a scoring system for prioritizing the location of capital investments;
- Adds a requirement to the INF-3 Policy Statement’s Implementing Actions to explore creating a third police district and police headquarters;
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 2:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework
- Add a statement about revenues generated by new growth not being sufficient to meet the needs of the new growth and aging infrastructure. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 9 and Chapter 11 to:
Chapter 9: Supporting Infrastructure
Chapter 11: Implementation - Adds a new Implementing Action to INF-4 Policy Statement to the APFO Committee examine APFO with respect to the County’s Hospital; and
- Adds a new Implementing Action to INF-4 Policy Statement to the APFO Committee examine APFO with respect to the County’s Hospital. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 4 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 4: County in Motion
- Amends the CIM-2 Policy Statement by adding Implementation Action 5 to pursue State-enabling legislation to allow well-signed, stationary speed cameras and other road safety mechanisms in school walk zones;
- On page CIM-37 (Table 4-1) rephrase project #2:“Snowden River Parkway: Oakland Mills Road to Broken Land Parkway – - construct all segments of the multi-use pathway” |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Amends the EH-10 Policy Statement to expand the potential uses of the ALPP Fund to support traditional agriculture and expand agribusiness opportunities and amends the Implementing Actions to identify areas in which the ALPP can be effective in supporting the health of agricultural land; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends the EH-10 Policy Statement to expand the potential |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Removes all quotes;
- Includes health hazards caused by airplanes in equity considerations;
- Amends the EH-1 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to track outcomes of ecological health investments and provide maintenance and enforcement, and adds an action to develop open space percentage requirements for activity centers;
- Adds language regarding 2020 bird-friendly am |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 6 and 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods
- Amends DN-14 Policy Statement 3 by adding after the period: "Expand our landlord-tenant division and the enforcement component to support the maintenance and revitalization of multi-family communities."; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends DN-14 Policy and Implementing Action 3 in Table 10-1: Implementation Matrix by adding after the period "Expand our landlord-tenant divi |
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(This Amendment amends HoCo by Design Technical appendix B: Character Areas by removing a reference to grading and vegetation removal for redeveloped Village Activity Centers. |
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This Amendment makes the following change to HoCo by Design Technical appendix C: Focus Areas: Amends the Village Center Redevelopment Illustrative Concept to maintain a grocery store presence in Village Center redevelopments. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes:
1. Removes Industrial Mixed Use and MXD character areas from the FLUM and replaces them with multi-family, suburban commercial, single-family neighborhood and industrial character areas both in Chapter 2 and on Map RTE 1-2, Route 1 Corridor Future Land Use.
2. Removes Elkridge as an activity center on Map 2-4
3. Creates a South Elkridge Civic District and provides that the South Elkridge Civic District is anchored by civic uses and intended to be a |
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This Amendment amends HoCo by Design Chapter 11: Implementation to add annual monitoring and four year performance measures. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, the Route 1 Corridor Plan, and Technical Appendix B:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Reduces the number of character areas from eighteen to seventeen;
- Removes Industrial Activity Centers from the character area typologies;
- Removes a description of Industrial Mixed Use Activity Centers;
- Replaces Mixed Use Activity Centers with Industrial in the Future Land Use Map;
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 3, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Removes the entire section titled “Incentivizing Natural Resource Protection and Restoration,” including the subsections titled “Green Neighborhood Program,” “Zoning Regulations,” and “Additional Incentives”;
- Removes the EH-4 Policy Statement and Implementing Actions;
Chapter 10: Managing Growth - Removes references to and the description of the Green Neighbor |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 2, 5, 7, 8, 10, 11, and Technical Appendix C:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Deletes a reference to the future effects of the Gateway Regional Activity Center relating to the creation of new jobs in the fifth paragraph of the Scenario Planning section of Strategy for Growth and Conservation;
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Deletes a description of the future redevelopment of the Gateway office park into |
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This Amendment amends HoCo By Design Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework by removing Map 2-3: Future Land Use Map and substituting a new Future Land Use Map with less specificity and more focus on the location of Activity Centers. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 3, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Removes the entire section titled “Incentivizing Natural Resource Protection and Restoration,” including the
subsections titled “Green Neighborhood Program,” “Zoning Regulations,” and “Additional Incentives”;
- Removes the EH-4 Policy Statement and Implementing Actions;
- Amends the EH-8 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to remove cons |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and the Route 1 Corridor Plan:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Removes the section titled “The Development Regulations Assessment and the FLUM” in its entirety;
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Removes a reference to the 2018 Land Development Regulations Assessment from stakeholder input in the Route 1 corridor;
- Removes a 2018 Land Development Regulations Assessment rec |
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This Amendment amends HoCo By Design Chapter 3: Ecological Health to remove a reference to using the ALPP to enhance the County’s ecological health efforts and remove a reference to changing State law to allow non-agricultural uses of the ALPP fund. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 6, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Amends the DN-3 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to require the production of housing units beyond what is required by the MIHU to ensure at least one-for-one replacement of affordable housing within or proximate to the redevelopment, and require the production of housing units that meet the needs of different levels of ability;
- Creates a requirement t |
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This Amendment amends HoCo by Design by including the May 31, 2023, student enrollment and capacity utilization as noted below:
Chapter 8: Public School Facilities - Amends Table 8-1: HCPSS Official Capacity Utilization (2022) and adds source of data. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 8 and 11:
Chapter 8: Public School Facilities
Chapter 11: Implementation
- Removes all quotes;
- Amends the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO) section by striking “most recently”, referencing when elementary regions surpasses 105% utilization as a criteria to postpone development, and deletes the last sentence relating to the effect of delayed |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 6 and 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods
Chapter 11: Implementation
- Deletes Implementing Action 4 in the DN-2 Policy Statement.
- Deletes Policy and Implementing Action 4 in the DN-2 Policy and Implementing Action in Table 10-1: Implementation Matrix. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 5 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Removes all quotes;
- Amends the projected housing from 30,000 to 31,000 and enumerates the projection based on housing type;
- Renames the “Promoting a Healthy Jobs/Housing Balance” Section to “Promoting Healthy Jobs” and removes all but the first two paragraphs;
- Amends the EP-4 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to remove a requirement to amend the Zoning Regulatio |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 6 and 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods
Chapter 11: Implementation
- Amends Implementation Action 4c to clarify that incentives related to development are outside of New Town zoning.
- Amends Implementing Action 4d. in the DN-5 Policy Statement by deleting the following language: “, exemptions from school requirements in the Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance,”; and
- Amends Implementation Action 4c |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 7 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 7: Quality By Design - Removes all quotes;
- Removes language about planting obscuring sightlines;
- Adds Harper’s Choice and Hickory Ridge to the list of examples of Village Centers that follow conventional development patterns;
- Removes language about the process to amend New Town zoning and substitutes a description of how New Town zoning embodies the General Plan’s intent;
- Clarifies that |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 6:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Amends the “Equity in Action” subsection of “What We Heard” by adding a bullet point “Increase MIHU requirements by 5% for all new apartment developments”. |
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This Amendment makes a technical correction to update the numbers related to community engagement and removes an outdated paragraph related to community engagement. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 9 and 11 to:
Chapter 9: Supporting Infrastructure
Chapter 11: Implementation
- Adds statements pertaining to the need to invest in sports tourism and a new Implementing Action in Policy Statement INF-5 for the County to explore the development of a commercial athletic facility;
- Adds a new Implementing Action in Policy Statement INF-5 for the County to explore the development of a commercial athletic f |
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This Amendment corrects the Acknowledgements Page at the beginning of the General Plan. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 92:
Expands village activity centers to areas to strengthen and enhance and maintain them in areas to transform in order to capture the range of needs and possibilities across various centers.
Provides that the FLUM provides guidance for future consideration
This is to be consistent with an Amendment to Amendment No. 58 that makes a similar change in the appendix regarding village activity centers. |
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This amendment specifies that the 2018 Land Development Regulations Assessment is not classified as a functional plan in Amendment 53. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 58 makes the following changes:
1. Strikes moving village activity centers to areas to strengthen.
2. Expands village activity centers to span both areas to enhance, strengthen and transform
3. Adds additional descriptive text to the Character Area descriptions to:
a) Incorporate the code definition of village centers
b) Clarify that Columbia’s village centers are diverse, have different competitive positions within market conditions.
c) Provides that housi |
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This amendment restores the quotes to page 36 in Amendment 59. |
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This amendment further clarifies the Agricultural Land Preservation Fund in Amendment 7. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 74 substitutes activity centers for village centers in the EP-4 and EP-8 Policy Statement Implementing Actions and restores an integration of the arts into revitalization efforts at Long Reach Village Center in the EP-5 Policy Statement Implementing Actions. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 76 amends the taskforce created in the QBD-1 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to be appointed by the County Council and County Executive and requires that the taskforce determine how to preserve New Town through the Final Development Plan and the Zoning Regulations. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 79 restores all the removed quotes. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 80 amends the MG-1 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to establish a working group that evaluates and recommends criteria for the targeted incentive program for affordable and accessible housing. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 47 to remove language related to challenges facing commercial properties on Route 1 and substitute language related to a 2021 ZRA. |
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This amendment reduces the number of Activity Center allocations by 100 units each year in Amendment 82. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 9 strikes language to widen Snowden River Parkway and adds language to construct all segments of the multi-use pathway and associated intersection modifications to ensure accessibility for all modes. |
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This amendment strikes a statement to a paragraph about the County’s ecological health, climate change mitigation, and the preservation of natural resources requesting that those goals be incorporated into the Zoning Regulations and Subdivision Regulations. |
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This amendment restores the quotes to Chapter 9 in Amendment 95. |
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This Amendment adds Section 3 to the bill providing that after passage of the Act, the Director of the Department of Planning and Zoning shall amend text, maps, charts, graphs, and tables in accordance with amendments to this Act. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 6 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods
- Removes all quotes;
- Amends the Equity in Action subsection of the “What We Heard” section by adding a second sentence to the third bullet as follows: “Explore programs that will incentivize developers to build housing in mixed-use projects that will be affordable and create new home ownership opportunities.”;
- Amends the Housing Element (HB 1045) and the Housing O |
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This Amendment amends HoCo by Design Chapter 8: Public School Facilities to remove a reference to recent increases in the Transfer Tax and Public Schools Facility Surcharge and substitute that increasing the percentage of the Transfer Tax designated for school capital projects will assist the school district in meeting its needs. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 4 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 4: County in Motion
- Removes all quotes;
- Amends the fifth key organization topic relating to the future of the transportation system to include the Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI);
- Amends the “Maintaining the Transportation System” section by adding language to the County’s future challenges to include meeting climate policy goals by building a zero-emi |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Amends the EH-2 Policy Statement to integrate climate change mitigation goals into programs receiving County funds and amends the Implementing Actions to accelerate implementation of the Howard County Climate Action Plan and ensure County agency policies align with the plan, accelerate inclusion of on- site renewable power generation at appropriate locations, and refuse permitti |
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This amendment corrects page references in the instructions to Amendment 87. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 8 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 8: Public School Facilities: - Amends the PS-3 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to add a revision of the County Code to consider school capacity when adopting ZRAs and add a revision of the Zoning Code to consider school capacity in cases before the Zoning Board; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends the PS-3 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to add a revision of the County Code to conside |
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This Amendment to Amendment 42 amends DN-5 Policy Statement Implementing Action 4 and DN-5 Policy and Implementing Action 4 by specifying the appointment of the members of a working group to evaluate the feasibility of a certain targeted incentive program and provides that the working group is concurrent with the evaluation of APFO. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 33 makes a technical correction to group electric bikes and cars together, separate from charging stations. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapters 6 and 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Amends the DN-11 Policy Statement by adding Implementing Action 7 to consider local amendments that establish certain minimum building standards during the review of the building code update and by adding Policy and Implementing Action 8 to ensure Universal Design Guidelines are utilized for at least 10% of all affordable units built; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends the DN |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 2, Chapter 5, Chapter 10, and the Route 1 Corridor Plan:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Replaces the Industrial Mixed Use Activity Center and the Mixed Use Activity Center character areas located in the Elkridge South District with the Campus, Mixed- Neighborhood, and Industrial character areas in the Future Land Use Map;
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Removes the Industrial Mixed Use Activity Center charact |
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This Amendment to Amendment 1 makes various changes to the proposed development plan for the Elkridge South District, generally related to designating the area a civic district named the “Elkridge South Civic District”. |
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This Amendment makes a technical correction to allow the Director of the Department of Planning and Zoning to also amend photos. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 100 amends language describing the types of rental housing and homes for sale in Columbia and adds specified housing demographics information. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 9 restores participant quotes, changes “require” to “encourage” in CIM-8 Implementing Action 3 and CIM-8 Policy and Implementing Action. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 103 amends the EH-2 Policy Statement 7th Implementing Action to apply to residential fossil fuel infrastructure. |
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This amendment adds a planning effort for the reuse of any quarry site that ceases operation during the planning horizon of HoCo By Design. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 41 adds language about the Columbia Downtown Housing Corporation’s Live Where You Work program. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 108 corrects the format of the new Policy Statement CIM-10; and clarifies Implementing Action #3 to indicate the Howard County agencies will partner with State and Federal agencies to develop environmental policy strategies to mitigate the impact of particulate matter. |
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Substitute page 1 of Amendment 41 with the attachment to this Amendment to Amendment.
In Chapter 6, Dynamic Neighborhoods, substitute pages DN 50 and 52 attached to Amendment No. 41 with the pages DN 50 and 52 attached to this Amendment to Amendment.
In Chapter 11, Implementation, substitute page IMP 40 attached to Amendment No. 41 with the page IMP 40 attached to this Amendment to Amendment. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 126 restores the appointment to the APFO Committee to one-year. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 130 corrects “Public Service Area” to “Planned Service Area”. |
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This amendment amends the DN-11 Policy Statement Implementing Action 8 to evaluate incentives to achieve Universal Design Guideline utilization in at least 10% of all affordable units built. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 16 removes the word “Skilled” in the second sentence of the first paragraph of the “People Supporting Infrastructure” section, rephrases INF-13 Policy Statement and INF-13 Policy Statement Implementing Action 1, and deletes INF-13 Policy Statement Implementing Actions 4 and 5. |
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This amendment removes the projected demand categories and removes the Green Neighborhoods allocations found in Amendment 24. |
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This amendment removes new proposed Map 2-4 from Amendment 25. |
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This Amendment makes a technical correction to correct a GIS error. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 115 deletes language describing the effect of requiring developers to use certain Missing Middle housing protypes, adds language concerning the commitment of the County to adjust the MIHU program so that Missing Middle housing can be used in a certain way, and adds language concerning the location of Missing Middle housing types and units throughout a development. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3, Chapter 5, and Chapter 11:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Removes the entire section titled “Managing Mineral Resources”;
- Removes the EH-13 Policy Statement and Implementing Action;
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Adds the section titled “Managing Mineral Resources” that was removed from Chapter 3;
- Adds the Policy Statement and Implementing Action that were removed from Chapter 3 as a new EP-14 Policy Statement and |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 10 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 10: Managing Growth - Amends the section titled “Managing Growth into the Future” to remove the third, fourth, and sixth paragraphs in their entirety, and remove the second and third sentence of the fifth paragraph;
- Amends the MG-1 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to evaluate data on existing conditions, and remove an evaluation of the life cycle of new and existing neighborhoods to better un |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 9 and Chapter 11 to:
Chapter 9: Supporting Infrastructure
Chapter 11: Implementation - Adds a statement about redeveloped areas setting aside spaces for recreational activities and open spaces to the fourth Implementing Action to INF-5 Policy Statement; and
- Adds a statement about redeveloped areas setting aside spaces for recreational activities and open spaces to the fourth Implementing Action to INF-5 Policy |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 9 and Chapter 11):
Chapter 9: Supporting Infrastructure - Adds a new INF-9 Policy Statement and Implementing Actions to continue to support the County’s Hospital to improve emergency room wait times;
Chapter 11: Implementation
- Adds a new INF-9 Policy Statement and Implementing Actions to continue to support the County’s Hospital to improve emergency room wait times. |
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This Amendment makes the following change to HoCo By Design Technical Appendix B:
Technical Appendix B - Removes the reference to energy efficient technologies in the subsection titled “Building Types and Materials” in the section titled “Character Area: Rural Crossroads”. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11 to:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health
- Adds a new Implementing Action to EH-9 Policy Statement about new agricultural zoning districts; and
Chapter 11: Implementation
- Adds a new Implementing Action to EH-9 Policy Statement about new agricultural zoning districts. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 10 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 10: Managing Growth - Amends the description of demand from “pent-up” to “existing”;
- Amends the third paragraph under Residential Growth Targets, 2020-2040 to include reference to a recent analysis from EDA, that indicates over 20,000 additional vehicles commute into Howard County;
- Removes the image of the house on page MG-5;
- Moves a paragraph from the top of page MG-6 to the bottom of page |
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(This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 6 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Amends the DN-3 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to incentivize the production of Low Income Housing Units and Disability Income Housing Units affordable to low- and moderate-income households in activity centers;
- Amends the DN-6 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to preserve the County’s existing affordable housing stock and establish a goal of zero net loss of |
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(This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 6 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Creates a new DN-3 Policy Statement to promote home ownership and creates associated Implementing Actions to build on existing programs that are geared toward helping buyers become homeowners, develop methods that encourage ownership over renting, and expand public awareness of various programs to assist home buyers; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Creates a new DN-3 Poli |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 9 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 9: Supporting Infrastructure - Includes personnel in the chapter introduction;
- Creates a new narrative section titled “People Supporting Infrastructure”;
- Creates a Policy Statement INF-13 to reduce barriers preventing the hiring and retention of the County's workforce and creates Implementing Actions to create a rental subsidy program and study wages for County workers, explore creating workforc |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 2, Chapter 7, Chapter 11, and Technical Appendix B:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Removes the Historic Community character areas from “Areas to Strengthen,” leaving it only in” Areas to Preserve”;
Chapter 7: Quality by Design - Removes the 5th paragraph of the section titled “Preserving Character in Future Development”;
- Amends the QBD-1 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to evaluate expanding the two ex |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 6, Chapter 10, and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Adds to the definition of affordable housing that the HOMP recommends prioritizing housing development that serve owner households making less than 120% AMI and rental households making less than 60% AMI;
- Amends the DN-5 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to have the working group study allowing affordable housing allocations to roll over, releasing alloc |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 5 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 5; Economic Prosperity - Creates a new EP-1 Policy Statement to embrace commercial revitalization along the Route 40 Corridor and creates associated Implementing Actions to support the establishment of a business district association specific to Route 40, update the Route 40 Design Manual, develop design guidelines defining the desired character of the Korean Way, and leverage partnerships to prioriti |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Amends the section titled “Mitigation Measures” to include how targeting redevelopment in activity centers offers opportunities to preserve existing environmental resources;
- Amends the EH-2 Policy Statement to integrate projects and regulations with climate change goals and the Implementing Actions to include redevelopment in mixed use activity centers in the evaluation of w |
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This Amendment to Amendment 100 adds a sentence at the end of the first paragraph of the Accessory Dwelling Units section describing the inherent nature of accessory dwelling units, amends DN-2 Policy Statement Implementing Action 1 by changing “Establish” to “Explore” and specifying additional criteria for ADUs, and amends DN-2 Policy and Implementing Action 1 by changing “Establish” to “Explore” and specifying additional criteria for ADUs. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 115 edits statements about the benefits of missing middle housing types as opportunities to advance a greater socio-economic balance in all communities. |
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This amendment instructs DPZ to replace Map 2 – 3 in Amendment 25 with a new map with a new key designation for the nine Columbia Village Centers which illustrates that the Village Centers are in the “Areas to Transform”, “Areas to Enhance”, and “Areas to Strengthen” typologies. |
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This Amendment to Amendment 74 restores Implementing Actions # 6 of Policy Statement EP-4 which creates opportunities to house the County’s essential workers. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 76 makes the following changes:
1. QBD 21:Removes the sentence that reads “However River Hill, Harper’s Choice, and Hickory Ridge Village Centers are located on busy roadways and follow more conventional suburban retail development patterns.”
2. QBD 25: Under Preserving Character in Future Development, in the 3rd paragraph, strike the removal of “may still be” and strike the addition of “is still” and re-insert “may still be” to remain consistent with action ite |
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This amendment restores the quotes to Chapter 3, restores the Incentivizing Natural Resource Protection and Restoration section, except for the Green Neighborhood Program section in including the Green Neighborhood Implementing Action in the EH-4 Policy Statement in Amendment 79, and amends the EH-2 Policy Statement to integrate climate change goals as specified in the Howard County Climate Action and Resiliency Plan. |
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This Amendment to Amendment No. 80 strikes the statement “The allocation chart presented here provides guidance for future consideration”. |
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(This Amendment makes the following change to HoCo By Design Chapter 2:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Removes the reference to opportunities for additional housing in the Rural West and the consideration of piecemeal PSA expansions for low- and moderate-income housing in the subsection titled “Planned Service Areas and Tiers” in the section titled “Strategy for Growth and Conservation”. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 10:
Chapter 10: Managing Growth
- Amends the Affordable Housing allocations in Table 10-1: Howard County APFO Allocations Chart to 300 units per year; and
- Removes the Green Neighborhood program in its entirety in Table 10-1: Howard County APFO Allocations Chart and the accompanying narrative section |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 10 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 10: Managing Growth
- Amends MG-1 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to remove an evaluation of automatic or limited exceptions, seek to engage local and national experts who can advise on modern best practices for managing growth and infrastructure, removes the development proposals of a mitigation payment, evaluate and analyze student generation yield by housing unit type, explore unit type r |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 6 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods
Amends the DN-3 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to require the production of housing units beyond what is required by the MIHU, and require the production of housing units that meet the needs of different levels of ability;
- Creates a requirement that at least 25% of all new housing units should be affordable;
- Creates a requirement that at least 10% of new affordab |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 4 and 11:
Chapter 4: County in Motion - Adds a new section Future of the Transportation System which provides details for implementing enhancements for Baltimore/Washington International Airport;
- Adds a new Policy Statement and Implementing Actions as CIM- 10 which considers ways to reduce the impacts of noise and air pollution generated by air travel and ensure that future residential development addresses those evolving |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11 to:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health
Chapter 11: Implementation - Adds a statement about deer management in residential and recreational areas to the seventh Implementing Action to EH-7 Policy Statement; and
- Adds a statement about deer management in residential and recreational areas to the seventh Implementing Action to EH-7 Policy Statement. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 5 and 11:
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Adds a new Implementing Action in Policy Statement EP-5 to continue to support the arts in the Savage community; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Adds a new Implementing Action in Policy Statement EP-5 to continue to support the arts in the Savage community. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11 to:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health
Chapter 11: Implementation - Adds a new Implementing Action to EH-9 Policy Statement about new agricultural zoning districts; and
- Adds a new Implementing Action to EH-9 Policy Statement about new agricultural zoning districts. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 to:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Adds two statements about eliminating surface runoff. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11 to:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health
Chapter 11: Implementation - Adds a statement about eliminating State Forest Conservation waivers and alternative compliances to the second Implementing Action to EH-2 Policy Statement; and
- Adds a statement about eliminating State Forest Conservation waivers and alternative compliances to the second Implementing Action to EH-2 Policy Statement. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 3 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Amends the EH-7 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to accelerate implementation of the recently amended State Forest Conservation Act, amend the Act to exceed State minimum standards, and report annually on fee-in-lieu activities and establish specified goals for forest interior habitats; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends the EH-7 Policy Statement Implementing Actions |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 6 and 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods - Amends DN-6 Policy Statement 6 by adding a new Implementation Action 6: “Explore ways to allow homeowners in the County’s moderate income home ownership program to realize market appreciation in their homes as a means to building generational wealth.”; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Amends DN-6 Policy and Implementing Action 6 in Table 10-1: Implementation Matrix by adding a new |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 6:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods
- Amends the “Opportunities to increase the Supply of Income-Restricted Housing Units section of the DN-4 Policy Statement by deleting the second sentence in the third paragraph and adding language concerning the ability of developers to pay a fee-in-lieu (FIL) which can result in economic segregation and requiring that developers use specified Missing Middle housing prototypes |
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This Amendment amends HoCo by Design by removing charts, graphs, tables, and maps which contain data older than 2020 or do not contain a citation. Chapters are amended as follows:
Chapter 2: Growth and Conservation Framework - Removes Map 2-2: HoCo By Design Growth Tiers and reference to this map;
Chapter 3: Ecological Health - Removes Map 3-1: Environmental Resources and reference to the map;
- Removes Map 3-3: Tree Canopy Map and reference to the map;
- Removes Map 3-4: Tree Canopy a |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapter 9 and Chapter 11 to:
Chapter 9: Supporting Infrastructure - Adds a new Implementing Action to INF-8 Policy Statement about continuing to support the capacity of the non-profit community; and
Chapter 11: Implementation - Adds a new Implementing Action to INF-8 Policy Statement about continuing to support the capacity of the non-profit community. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 6 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods
- Amends the DN-3 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to ensure at least one-for-one replacement of affordable housing within or proximate to the redevelopment, and require the production of housing units that meet the needs of different levels of ability;
- Amends the DN-7 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to ensure at least a one-for-one replacement of affordable ho |
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This Amendment amends HoCo By Design Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods to create a requirement that optional compliance for the affordability and accessibility targets should be limited to payment of a fee in leu equivalent to the cost of the County siting and building comparable units. |
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This Amendment makes the following change to HoCo By Design Chapter 5:
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Amends the fifth paragraph of the subsection titled “Farming by Industry” in the section titled “Sustaining our Agricultural Economy” by adding “demand for” after “Finally,”; and
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity - Amends the fifth paragraph of the subsection titled “Farming by Industry” in the section titled “Sustaining our Agricultural Economy” by inserting “for farmers and exposes the public |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 6 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods -
Creates a new DN-11 Policy Statement to support existing County resident struggling to maintain a stable household and creates associated Implementing Actions to continue rental assistance programs begun during COVID-19, expand and re-allocate Housing Commission inventory, expand the County right-of-first refusal to include mobile home parks and transitional housing, legi |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 6 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods -
Amends the DN-11 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to require builders to adhere to the updated Design Guidelines; and
Chapter 11: Implementation -
Amends the DN-11 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to require builders to adhere to the updated Design Guidelines. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 10
and Chapter 11:
Chapter 10: Managing Growth -
Creates a new MG-1 Policy Statement to ensure year-by- year provision of affordability requirement as depicted in Table 10-1 and creates an associated Implementing Action to revise County processes for granting allocations if affordable unit benchmarks are not met each year; and
Chapter 11: Implementation -
Creates a new MG-1 Policy Statement to ensure year-by- year provisi |
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This Amendment amends HoCo By Design Chapter 10: Managing Growth to amend the narrative section titled “Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO)” and the associated Table 10- 1 to reduce the Other Character Areas allocations, remove the Green Neighborhood Allocations, remove the Affordable Housing allocations, substitute “For-Sale Housing Affordable to 80-120% AMI” and “Rental Housing Affordable to 60% AMI” allocations, and amend the total allocations. |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 5 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 5: Economic Prosperity -
Amends the EP-9 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to consider consolidating resources supporting the agriculture community in a single location in the west and complete an Agriculture Master Plan within three years of adoption of the General Plan; and
Chapter 11: Implementation -
Amends the EP-9 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to consider consolidating resources |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo by Design Chapters 6 and 11:
Chapter 6: Dynamic Neighborhoods
- Amends Implementing Action 3 in the DN-8 Policy Statement by modifying the action to determine if there are certain strategic locations in the Rural West where it is feasible to accommodate increased housing development by adding “while maintaining rural character; and
Chapter 11:
Implementation
- Amends Policy and Implementing Action 3 in DN-8 of Table 10-1: Implemen |
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This Amendment makes the following changes to HoCo By Design Chapter 8 and Chapter 11:
Chapter 8: Public School Facilities - Creates a new PS-1 Policy Statement to ensure the integrity of HCPSS and DPZ data and creates associated Implementing Actions to direct third party audits of historic HCPSS and DPZ projections and direct third party audits of HCPSS and DPZ data sets;
- Amends the existing PS-1 Policy Statement Implementing Actions to remove the two Implementing Actions and substitute Imp |
