Pathways plan public hearing approaching By Bryan Schutt, Times Staff Writer

Pathways plan public hearing approaching By Bryan Schutt, Times Staff Writer

Thursday, July 02, 2009

The head of the county’s planning and zoning commission says he expects revisions to proposed rezoning around Taylorsville and Mount Airy.

With a public hearing rapidly approaching, a public records inbox overflowing and many riled up residents to accommodate, the Carroll County Planning and Zoning Commission is nearing its chance to apply people’s concerns to the proposed comprehensive plan, Pathways to Carroll’s Future Landscape.

And because of the hundreds of comments received and questions asked about the plan, the commission plans to analyze each and every resident’s concern individually, said David Brauning, chair of the Carroll Planning and Zoning Commission.

Read the entire article by Bryan Schutt here: Pathways plan public hearing approaching By Bryan Schutt, Times Staff Writer

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/07/02/news/local_news/2_pathways_plan.txt

20090702 Pathways plan public hearing approaching By Schutt

http://www.carrollcountytimes.com/articles/2009/07/02/news/local_news/2_pathways_plan.txt

20090702 Pathways The story so far

For more information click here:

http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/search/label/Carroll%20Co%20Govt%20Planning%20Pathways

Pathways plan causing confusion for residents, officials By Charles Schelle www.explorecarroll.com http://tinyurl.com/m8c7ra
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/06/pathways-plan-causing-confusion-for.html

Culleton on Carroll: We need industrial land & insurance it’ll stay that way www.explorecarroll.com http://tinyurl.com/ksx7p6 http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/06/culleton-we-need-industrial-land-in.html [20090625 Culleton We need ind land that will stay that way]

And especially read:
Carroll ‘unprepared’ to attract new jobs by Kelsey Volkmann, The Examiner
http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2007/03/carroll-unprepared-to-attract-new-jobs.html Mar 2, 2007 [20070302 Carroll unprepared to attract new jobs kvbe]

For additional reading go to where you may find previous columns I have written on the history of the Carroll County Comprehensive Plan process in Carroll County: http://tinyurl.com/clkwbn and http://twitpic.com/4f7ie
Planning a pathway in Carroll County from 1961 into the future
http://kevindayhoffwestgov-net.blogspot.com/2006/06/planning-pathway-in-carroll-county-from.html

20051005 WE Urban sprawl is no good for all weked http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2005/10/urban-sprawl-is-no-good-for-all-but.html

20050929 Agriculture’s new social contract http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2005/09/agricultures-new-social-contract.html

20090502 SDOSM Comprehensive planning in Carroll County http://kevindayhoff.blogspot.com/2009/05/comprehensive-planning-in-carroll.html

The Carroll County Planning Commission's public hearing on Pathways will be July 14 from 6 to 9 p.m. at Winters Mill High School, 560 Gorsuch Road, Westminster. Comments are limited to two minutes each.

Public comment to be reviewed by Planning Commission must be received not later than July 10 at 5 p.m. at Carroll County Planning, c/o Pathways Plan Comments, 225 N. Center St., Room 205, Westminster, MD 21157.

A hearing on any proposed rezoning will occur after Pathways is adopted.

Pathways Assistance

Click here to view the Carroll County Economic Development Land and Employment Needs Study. (This is a large file. Right-click to save as a file to desktop.)

Click here to view the executive summary for the Carroll County Economic Development Land and Employment Needs Study.

Click here to view the Frequently Ask Questions about the Carroll County Economic Development Land and Employment Needs Study.

Click here to view the full list of Carroll County studies for the Pathways plan.

Click here to view the Map It Out exercise where residents placed Lego blocks on area they wish to have development. Links to the maps are at the bottom of the linked page.

For more information on Pathways, visit www.carrollpathways.org