Protecting the Shore through

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Protecting the Shore through

• Strategic Land Conservation
• Sound Land Use Planning

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What the Eastern Shore wants

• Vibrant and well defined towns
• Thriving farms, forests, and fisheries and,
• Protected scenic, historic, and natural
  landscapes.

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What the Eastern Shore is getting

• Increasing pace of development
• New expansion area for major metropolitan
  builders
• Exploding towns.

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What the Eastern Shore Is Saying..

• 87 of Shore residents very concerned or
  concerned about the the rate and type of
  growth.
• 6 out of 10 county residents managing growth was
  the most important issue.
• 82 of County residents if current rates and
  type of growth continue, quality of life will
  deteriorate
• 71 of County residents gave the County
  government a poor or just fair rating for
  handling growth

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Where We Are Headed?
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Cecil County in Context Housing
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Cecil County in Context Protected Lands
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Cecil County in Context Farmland Loss
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County Ag Zoning

County Ag Zoning
Caroline 120
Cecil 18, 15
Dorchester 120
Kent 130
QA 120
Talbot 120
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Land Preservation Development Trends in Cecil
County

• More acreage preserved than converted in last 10
  years, but still losing 2.5 acres of agricultural
  land a day
• Majority of building lots approved each year are
  in the rural parts of the County, not the growth
  corridor

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Eastern Shore 2010

• Protect 50 of Eastern Shore land outside of
  locally-designated growth by voluntary
  conservation.
• Build support for agriculture, fisheries, and
  forestry.
• Guide at least 50 of new development into
  locally-designated growth areas.
• Develop a regional transportation plan..

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Land Protection Goals

• Cecil County 55,000 acres

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Growth Management Goals
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Where Do We Go From Here?

• Growth management tools
• Determine how, when and where we grow
• Protect our working farms
• Create a better future for existing neighborhoods
• Protect our communities, the economy and our
  environment Provide choices and opportunities for
  everyone.