Development Management Public Meetings
Important Notices
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The following list of public meetings and public hearings all relate to the consideration of proposals for land development in Baltimore County. Scroll through the descriptive listing and select the link of your choice to visit scheduled meetings in that phase of the development process.
Development Review Committee (DRC)
- The Development Review Committee (DRC) is comprised of representatives of the Baltimore County departments responsible for reviewing and approving development in the county.
- Members are appointed by their respective department heads and act at the behest of the department head.
- The DRC meets weekly to determine which projects meet the requirements for limited exemptions to the development regulations or whether changes to previously approved plans meet the requirements of refinements to those plans.
- A representative of the Department of Permits and Development Management (PDM) chairs the DRC.
The actions of the DRC hearings are published by Baltimore County. Use the key for further clarification of the actions.
For additional information about the DRC, contact Colleen Kelly by e-mail: ckelly@baltimorecountymd.gov or call 410-887-3321
Concept Plan Conferences (CPC)
- The Concept Plan Conference is the first step through the full development process in Baltimore County.
- Once a developer has submitted to Baltimore County a concept plan for development, the plan is preliminarily reviewed by County agencies responsible for development approval.
- At the Concept Plan Conference, the developer receives written agency comments.
- The Concept Plan is not approved by Baltimore County.
- At the CPC, the developer is provided names and addresses of community organizations to be invited to the Community Input Meeting (CIM).
Community Input Meetings (CIM)
- Developers are required to hold a Community Input Meeting (CIM) following the Concept Plan Conference (CPC).
- A CIM is scheduled at a handicapped accessible public location in the vicinity of the project being proposed, or in Towson, if none is available.
- The developer is required to give written notice of the meeting to adjacent property owners as well as those community organizations identified during the CPC by the Office of Planning.
- The property is posted for a period of 21 calendar days prior to the CIM.
- Minutes of the CIM are prepared and then become part of the record.
Development Plan Conferences (DPC)
- The Development Plan Conference (DPC) is where written comments by county agencies are submitted to developer's and their engineers.
- The developer has submitted his actual development plan to be considered by the Hearing Officer by the time the DPC is scheduled.
- Those written comments are forwarded to the Hearing Officer for his consideration of approval of the proposed development plan.
Hearing Officer Hearings (HOH)
- Hearing Officer hearings are scheduled before the Baltimore County Zoning Commissioner or his deputy who has final approval authority on development plans submitted for consideration.
- The hearings are quasi-judicial and are held during the day at the government complex in Towson.
- Notice of the hearing is made to those who identified themselves as "contact persons" at the CIM.
- The property is posted for 20 working days prior to the hearing.
- Zoning relief or special hearings, if required, can be scheduled as part of the development plan hearing.
- The County Review Group (CRG) process was the process for reviewing and approving proposed development in Baltimore County between 1982 and 1992.
- The process consisted of a developer submitting a concept plan to Baltimore County for consideration of approval.
- Within 10 days, a pre-CRG meeting was scheduled where the agencies of the county who review development, primarily the departments of planning, zoning, environmental protection and public works, provide written comments on the plan's general compliance with the development and other pertinent regulations.
- A CRG meeting was then scheduled approximately 10 days later where the developer received written comments and a recommendation of approval or denial of the plan.
- At the CRG meeting citizen have the opportunity to provide testimony on the proposed development.
- The CRG is co-chaired by a representative of the Department of Planning and the Department of Public Works.
- Since March, 1992, the only CRGs held are ones that are proposing material changes to the previously approved plan. No new CRGs have been filed with Baltimore County until recently.
Revised August 25, 2009
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