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COLLEGE PARK, Md. - How
well do local appointed and elected
officials follow ordinances that
govern changes in land use in rural
areas?
In one study area - Frederick
County, Md. - they generally do a
good job of following zoning or
dinances, according to a team of
agricultural and resource
economists at the University of
Maryland, College Park,
Planning commission staff and
members of the board of county
commissioners decided or
recommended in favor of ap
proving 86% of the rezonmg
requests that comormed to the
county’s Comprehensive Zoning
Plan over a 10-year period.
Of the two bodies, planning
commission staff members
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adhered more closely to the plan,
say the researchers, who con
ducted their study for the
university’s Agricultural Ex
periment Station (UMAES).
In spite of that fact, however, “It
appears relatively easy to move
land out of agriculture in
Frederick County” and into other
land uses, says Neal Bliven, the
study’s senior investigator.
Of the 59 rezoning requests
analyzed by Bliven, Billy Lessley
and Tim Phipps, 73% of those
involving applications for change
from agricultural to other land use
were approved.
Those changes seemed to lean
more toward industrial land use,
rather than commercial land use.
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from agricultural production, it
also shows that it is more difficult
to remove large sections of land
from the county’s Agricultural
Zoning District.
Says Bliven; Land parcels most
likely to be preserved for
agricultural use are 150 acres or
larger and exist in areas
designated for agricultural use by
the county’s Comprehensive Plan
Agricultural land with the
greatest propensity to “leak” into
the broader land market, say the
researchers, included parcels
smaller than 150 acres and in
tended for industrial activities.
The 10-year study period in
dicated that the county com
missioners tended to favor zoning
changes to industrial, rather than
commercial land use.
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