A.Â
Unless a contrary intention clearly appears, the following words
and phrases shall have, for the purpose of this chapter, the meanings
given in the following clauses.
B.Â
For the purpose of this chapter, words and terms used herein shall
be interpreted as follows:
(1)Â
Words used in the present tense include the future.
(2)Â
The singular includes the plural.
(3)Â
The word "person" includes a corporation, institution, partnership,
and association, as well as the individual.
(4)Â
The word "lot" includes the word "plot" or "parcel."
(5)Â
The term "shall" is always mandatory.
(6)Â
The word "used" or "occupied" as applied to any land or building
shall be construed to include the words "arranged or designed to be
used or occupied."
(7)Â
The word "Council" and the words "Town Council" shall always mean
the Town Council of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland.
(8)Â
The word "Commission" and the words "Planning and Zoning Commission"
and the words "Planning Commission" shall always mean the Chesapeake
Beach Planning and Zoning Commission.
(9)Â
The word "Board" shall always mean the Board of Zoning Appeals of
Chesapeake Beach, Maryland.
(10)Â
The word "Town" shall always mean the Town of Chesapeake Beach,
Maryland.
(11)Â
The word "Administrator" shall always mean the Zoning/Public
Works Administrator.
C.Â
Any word or term not defined herein shall be used with a meaning
of standard usage.
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
Any premises from which minors are excluded and in which
the retail sale of books, magazines, newspapers, movie films, devices,
slides, or other photographic or written reproductions is conducted
as a principal use of the premises; or as an adjunct to some other
business activity, but which constitutes the primary or a major attraction
to the premises.
An entertainment establishment which features go-go dancers,
exotic dancers, strippers, male or female impersonators, or similar
entertainers.
As applied to a building structure, a change or rearrangement
in the structural parts, or an enlargement, whether by extending on
a side or by increasing in height, or the moving from one location
to another.
All the area within a parcel, inclusive of steep slopes,
local access streets or alleys, off-street parking spaces, recreation
sites, floodplains, and wetlands.
The usable space contained within a structure. For a residential
application, the floor area is included if it is a basement area over
3.5 feet above grade, an attic area which has a ceiling seven feet
or more in height, or any areas with a ceiling height of more than
five feet in height that adjoin living areas. If the ceiling height
exceeds 14 feet in any interior space, the floor area is counted twice.
An owner-occupied or manager-occupied building where, for
compensation and only by prearrangement (transients only) for definite
periods, lodging and meals are provided. Such uses are limited to
five guest rooms, excluding resident management.
A combination of materials having a roof, to form a structure
for the shelter of persons, animals, or chattel. The word "building"
shall include any part thereof.
A building subordinate to the principal building on the same
lot and used for purposes customarily incidental to those of the principal
building.
The aggregate of the maximum horizontal cross-section areas
of all buildings on a lot, excluding cornices, unroofed porches, paved
terraces, exterior steps, eaves, and gutters.
The percentage of the lot area covered by the building area.
This percentage shall include any square footage included in the ground
floor of the gross floor area calculation.
[Amended 11-17-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-12]
A building's height shall be measured by the average street
frontage elevation, address side, (not elevated) finished lot grade,
at the primary front entrance to the building. The height shall be
measured to the highest point in the roofline, which shall include
any rooftop deck, fence railing, widows walk, or other rooftop addition.
[Amended 2-7-2001 by Ord. No. O-06-17; 11-17-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-12]
An occupation, employment, or enterprise that is carried
on for profit by the owner, lessee, or licensee.
An ownership arrangement as defined in the Annotated Code
of Maryland, Real Property Article, Title 11. It is an estate in real
property consisting of an undivided interest in common with other
purchasers in a portion of a parcel of real property, together with
a separate interest in space in a building, such as an apartment.
An activity undertaken for gain or profit and carried on
in a dwelling or building accessory to a dwelling, by members of the
family residing in the dwelling and up to one additional unrelated
person. A customary home occupation is clearly secondary to the use
of the dwelling as a residence.
The number of dwelling units per gross acre of a development
parcel, inclusive of streets, open spaces, and nonbuildable areas.
A building on a permanent foundation arranged or designed
to provide living facilities for one or more families. The word "dwelling"
shall not be construed to include a mobile home or habitable travel
trailer.
A dwelling unit which is either attached to a dwelling as
defined herein or is located in an accessory building, as defined
herein.
A building containing two or more dwelling units on a single
lot having a common roof and a common entry.
A building containing two or three attached dwelling units
which have a common wall at the lot line between each unit and which
are on separate lots.
[Amended 3-20-2008 by Ord. No. O-08-1]
A building containing one dwelling unit on one lot and detached
from any other dwelling.
A building containing four or more attached dwelling units
in a row which have a common wall at the lot line between each unit
and which are on separate lots.
[Amended 3-20-2008 by Ord. No. O-08-1]
A dwelling or portion thereof providing complete living facilities
for one family, but shall not include mobile homes, habitable travel
trailers, or rooming, boarding-, or lodging houses, or hotels, motels,
tourist homes, or other similar places offering overnight accommodations
for transients.
An individual, or two or more persons related by blood or
marriage, or group of not more than four persons not related by blood
or marriage, living together as a single housekeeping group in a dwelling
unit.
Any residential structure used to provide assisted community
living for persons with physical, mental, emotional, familial, or
social difficulties.[1]
See "motel."
A narrow range of industrial uses that are compatible with
adjacent uses to the extent that any adverse effects on health, safety,
welfare, or the environment are avoided. The uses are limited to light
manufacturing, fabricating, warehousing, and wholesale distributing
in low buildings with off-street loading and off-street parking for
employees and with access by major thoroughfares. Light industries
include those which manufacture, process, store, package or distribute
goods and materials; and are, in general, dependent on raw materials
refined elsewhere.
A parcel of land used or set aside and available for use
as the site of one or more buildings and buildings accessory thereto
or for any other purpose, in one ownership and not divided by a street
nor including any land within the limits of a public or private street
right-of-way. The term "record lot" means the land designated as a
separate and distinct parcel of land on a legally recorded deed filed
among the Land Records of Calvert County.
Lot abutting two or more streets at their intersections,
where the interior angle of the intersection does not exceed 135°.
An interior lot fronting on two streets.
The lines bounding a lot, provided any street lines shall
be considered lot lines for the purposes of this chapter.
The width of a lot measured at the minimum building restriction
line.
An establishment where, for any form of consideration, massage,
alcohol rub, fomentation, electric or magnetic treatment, or similar
treatment or manipulation of the human body is administered, unless
such treatment or manipulation is administered by a medical practitioner,
chiropractor, acupuncturist, physical therapist, or similar professional
person licensed by the State of Maryland. This definition does not
include an athletic club, health club, school, gymnasium, reducing
salon, spa, or similar establishment where massage or similar manipulation
of the human body is offered as an incidental or accessory service.
A building in which lodging or boarding is provided for more
than 15 persons, primarily transient, or with more than 10 guest rooms,
offered to the general public at a daily rate. Ingress to and egress
from all rooms is made through an inside lobby or office supervised
by a person in charge at all hours. As such, it is open to the public,
in contradistinction to a boarding-, rooming, or lodging house, or
an apartment house, timeshare facilities or condominium units. A hotel
may include restaurants, taverns, club rooms, public banquet halls,
ballrooms, and meeting rooms.
An unobstructed space or area other than a street or alley
that is permanently reserved and maintained for the parking of one
motor vehicle.
CLASS IIncludes fast-food restaurants. This is a type of restaurant, other than a bakery, bakeshop, candy, or ice cream store, which provides as a principal use the sale of foods and beverages in a ready-to-consume state, for consumption off of the premises. These restaurants may have sit-down seating and delivery service but may not provide dancing, live entertainment, the service of alcoholic beverages, or a bar. They may have some outdoor dining and drive-up services.
CLASS IIThis type of food service establishment has as a substantial portion of its business the carryout of foods for immediate consumption. These types of restaurants may not have bars, dancing, live entertainment, or drive-in, drive-through service windows. The service of alcoholic beverages shall be beer and wine only served on the premises with meals or sold prepackaged for off-premises consumption. The establishment does not provide more than 10 seats. Food items prepared for consumption generally are not prepackaged but are made to specific order. A limited number of prepackaged items may be sold but only as accessory to the principal use of service of food for immediate consumption. These restaurants also include restaurants that may be considered food service marts. A food service mart is an establishment whose principal purpose is the sale of food items for home consumption, either prepared on the premises or prepackaged. These types of restaurants may not have bars, dancing, live entertainment, or drive-in windows. The service of alcohol beverages shall be beer and wine only serviced on the premises with meals or sold prepackaged for off-premises consumption. No seating is provided on the premises.
CLASS IIIThis type of restaurant is an establishment whose principal business is the sale of food or beverages to the customer in a ready-to-consume state. Carryout goods may constitute no more than 10% of the business. This type of restaurant may include a bar, dancing, and live entertainment as regulated within the specific zoning districts. These restaurants do not have drive-up or drive-through services. Catering or delivery is permitted as an accessory use. Patrons are customarily provided with menus and are served their food or beverages by a restaurant employee at the same table or counter at which the food is consumed.
A person occupying any room or group of rooms forming a single
habitable unit used or intended to be used for living and sleeping,
but not for cooking or eating purposes, and paying compensation to
an owner or operator for lodging or board and lodging by prearrangement
for a week or more at a time. Any person occupying such room or rooms
and paying such compensation without prearrangement or for less than
a week at a time shall be classed for purposes of this chapter not
as a roomer, boarder, or lodger, but as a guest of a commercial establishment
(motel, hotel, tourist home).
A building or part of a building (other than institutional
building) occupied or intended to be occupied by three or more roomers,
boarders, or lodgers.
A public or private way used or intended to be used for passage
or travel by automotive vehicles. If private, such way must be used
or intended to be used as the principal means of access to an abutting
lot or lots or to more than two dwellings on a lot on which a private
way is exclusively used.
The dividing line between the street and the lot. The street
line shall be the same as the legal right-of-way line, provided that
where a future right-of-way width for a street has been officially
established, the street line shall be the side of the future right-of-way
so established.
A man- or machine-made combination of materials assembled,
constructed, or erected at a fixed location, the use of which requires
location on the ground or attachment to something having location
on the ground. The word "structure" shall include any part thereof.
A residential building, that is rented commercially in whole
or in part, or a separate dwelling unit accessory to such a building
that is rented commercially, in which paying guests are provided,
with or without prearrangement, overnight accommodations on a short-term
basis for commercial compensation, of a period of fewer than 30 days.
[Added 11-17-2022 by Ord. No. O-22-12]
MOBILE HOMEAny vehicle or similar portable structure with any or all of the following characteristics:
Manufactured as a relocatable dwelling unit intended for year-round
occupancy and with no need for a permanent foundation, which can be
moved upon the removal of tie-downs and surrounding decks and the
reattachment of tow bar axles and wheels.
Designed to be transported after manufacture on its own permanent
chassis, with a fixed or removable tow bar, and can be moved without
the use of regular house-moving equipment.
Designed to be installed as a single-wide or double-wide unit
with only incidental unpacking and assembling operations.
HABITABLE TRAVEL TRAILER (TRAILER)A vehicular, portable structure designed to be used as a temporary dwelling for travel, camping and recreational purposes. Such units shall not include mobile homes. Such units shall not be used as permanent dwellings.
Use of a building, lot or portions thereof, which is customarily
incidental and subordinate to the principal use of the main building
or lot.
Walls opposite to and parallel with one another and wall
lines extended of opposite walls intersecting at angles of less than
65°.
FRONTThe required open space, the full width of the lot, extending from the street line to the nearest building on the lot, exclusive of overhanging eaves, gutters, or cornices.
SIDEThe required open space between a side lot line of a lot and the nearest point of the building and extending from the front yard to the rear yard.
REARThe required open space, the full width of the lot, extending from the rear property line of the lot to the nearest building on the lot, exclusive of overhanging eaves, gutters, or cornices.
[1]
Editor's Note: The former definition of "home occupation,"
which immediately followed this definition, was repealed 3-16-2023 by Ord. No. O-23-2.
The following words have the following meanings for purposes
of implementing the Critical Area Program:
The establishment of a tree crop on an area from which it
has always or very long been absent, or the planting of open areas
that are not presently in forest cover.
A nonpossessory interest in land, which restricts the conversion
of use of the land, preventing nonagricultural uses.
All methods of production and management of livestock, crops,
vegetation, and soil. This includes, but is not limited to, the related
activities of tillage, fertilization, pest control, harvesting, and
marketing. It also includes, but is not limited to, the activities
of feeding, housing, and maintaining animals such as cattle, dairy
cows, sheep, goats, hogs, horses, and poultry and handling their by-products.
Fish that travel upstream (from their primary habitat in
the ocean) to freshwater in order to spawn.
The farming or culturing of finfish, shellfish, other aquatic
plants or animals, or both, in lakes, streams, inlets, estuaries,
and other natural or artificial water bodies or impoundments;
Activities including hatching, cultivating, planting, feeding,
raising, and harvesting of aquatic plants and animals and the maintenance
and construction of necessary equipment, buildings, and growing areas;
and
Cultivation methods including, but not limited to, seed or larvae
development and grow-out facilities, fish ponds, shellfish rafts,
rack and longlines, seaweed floats and the culture of clams and oysters
on tidelands and subtidal areas. For the purpose of this definition,
related activities such as wholesale and retail sales, processing
and product storage facilities are not considered aquacultural practices.
Unmanaged land having sparse vegetation.
Conservation practices or systems of practices and management
measures that control soil loss and reduce water quality degradation
caused by nutrients, animal waste, toxins and sediment. Agricultural
BMPs include, but are not limited to, strip cropping, terracing, contour
stripping, grass waterways, animal waste structures, ponds, minimal
tillage, grass and naturally vegetated filter strips, and proper nutrient
application measures.
An existing, naturally vegetated area or an area established
in vegetation and managed to protect aquatic, wetlands, shoreline,
and terrestrial environments from man-made disturbances.
[Amended 5-11-2005 by Ord. No. O-05-3]
An area, at least 25 feet wide, located between development
activity and the water (or edge of wetlands or streams), planted with
vegetation consisting of native species and other appropriate plantings.
This area shall be maintained primarily for the purposes of wildlife
habitat and water quality and shall not be maintained in a manner
that conflicts with these purposes such as by mowing or the application
of herbicides.
The removal of the entire stand of trees in one cutting with
tree reproduction obtained by natural seeding from adjacent stands
or from trees that were cut, from advanced regeneration or stump sprouts,
or from planting of seeds or seedlings by man.
A residential development in which dwelling units are concentrated
in a selected area or selected areas of the development tract so as
to provide natural habitat or other open space uses on the remainder.
Examples are herons, egrets, terns, and glossy ibis. For
the purposes of nesting, these birds congregate (that is "colonize")
in relatively few areas, at which time the regional populations of
these species are highly susceptible to local disturbances.
A commercial operation that would alter the existing composition
or profile, or both, of a forest, including all commercial cutting
operations done by companies and private individuals for economic
gain.
The Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Commission.
Boat docking facilities associated with subdivisions or similar
residential areas, and with condominium, apartment and other multiple-family
dwelling units. Private piers are excluded from this definition.
A compilation of policy statements, goals, standards, maps
and pertinent data relative to the past, present and future trends
of the local jurisdiction, including, but not limited to, its population,
housing, economics, social patterns, land uses, water resources and
their use, transportation facilities and public facilities prepared
by or for the planning board, agency or office.
A nonpossessory interest in land, which restricts the manner
in which the land may be developed in an effort to reserve natural
resources for future use.
The establishment of a vegetative cover to protect soils
from erosion and to restrict pollutants from entering the waterways.
Cover crops can be dense, planted crops of grasses or legumes, or
crop residues such as corn, wheat or soybean stubble which maximize
infiltration and prevent runoff from reaching erosive velocities.
All lands and waters defined in § 8-1807 of the
Natural Resources Article, Annotated Code of Maryland. They include:
All waters of and lands under the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries
to the head of tide as indicated on the state wetlands maps and all
state and private wetlands designated under Title 16 of the Environment
Article, Annotated Code of Maryland;
All land and water areas within 1,000 feet beyond the landward
boundaries of state or private wetlands and the heads of tides designated
under Title 16 of the Environment Article, Annotated Code of Maryland;
and
Modification to these areas through inclusions or exclusions
proposed by local jurisdictions and approved by the Commission as
specified in § 8-1807 of the Natural Resources Article,
Annotated Code of Maryland.
The number of dwelling units per acre within a defined and
measurable area.
Areas of one acre or more in size which predominantly contain
trees and natural vegetation and which also include residential, commercial,
or industrial structures and uses.
The construction or substantial alteration of residential,
commercial, industrial, institutional or transportation facilities
or structures. Development activities include, among other things,
structures, roads, parking areas, and other impervious surfaces, mining
and related facilities, clearing, grading and septic systems.
Forested areas where the occurrence of interior dwelling
birds, during the breeding season, has been demonstrated as a result
of on-site surveys using standard biological survey techniques.
A more or less self-contained biological community, together
with the physical environment in which the community's organisms occur.
All increases in stormwater resulting from:
An increase in the imperviousness of the site, including additions
to buildings, roads, and parking lots;
Changes in permeability caused by compaction during construction
or modifications in contours, including the filling or drainage of
small depression areas;
Alteration of drainageways, or regrading of slopes;
Destruction of forest; or
Installation of collection systems to intercept street flows
or to replace swales or other drainageways.
Commercial water-dependent fisheries facilities, including
structures for the packing, processing, canning, or freezing of finfish,
crustaceans, mollusks, and amphibians and reptiles and also including
related activities such as wholesale and retail sales, product storage
facilities, crab shedding, off-loading docks, shellfish culture operations,
and shore-based facilities necessary for aquacultural operations.
A biological community dominated by trees and other woody
plants covering a land area of one acre or more. This also includes
forests that have been cut, but not cleared.
Species of birds that require relatively large forested tracts
in order to breed successfully (for example, various species of flycatchers,
warblers, vireos, and woodpeckers).
The protection, manipulation, and utilization of the forest
to provide multiple benefits, such as timber harvesting, water transpiration,
wildlife habitat, etc.
The alteration of the forest either through tree removal
or replacement in order to improve the timber, wildlife, recreational,
or water quality values.
The status accorded certain properties and development activities that are of record prior to the date of adoption of the provisions of this chapter and the provisions of Chapter 245, Subdivision of Land, applicable only to the Critical Area.
Soils that have a slope greater than 15%; or those soils
with a K value greater than 0.35 and with slopes greater than 5%.
An area of open water and adjacent marshes where waterfowl
gather during migration and throughout the winter season. These areas
are "historic" in the sense that their location is common knowledge
and because these areas have been used regularly during recent times.
Soils that are wet frequently enough to periodically produce
anaerobic conditions, thereby influencing the species composition
or growth, or both, of plants on those soils.
Those plants cited in Vascular Plant Species Occurring in
Maryland Wetlands (Dawson, F. et al., 1985) which are described as
growing in water or on a substrate that is at least periodically deficient
in oxygen as a result of excessive water content (plants typically
found in water habitats).
Types of surfaces which shall be considered impervious in
applying the requirements of this chapter shall include driveways
and parking lots surfaced with asphalt, blue stone, bank-run gravel,
concrete, dirt, oyster shell, pavers, "turf block" or similar materials;
ponds, except for those used for stormwater management; sidewalk surfaces
with brick and mortar, bricks on sand, concrete or similar materials;
swimming pools; paved tennis courts; and buildings and other structures.
Surfaces which are not considered impervious include decks and walkways
with spaces between boards with six inches of gravel or vegetation
underneath, gravel or wood chip walkways or similar types of surfaces.
The soil erodibility factor in the Universal Soil Loss Equation.
It is a quantitative value that is experimentally determined.
The raising of fish or shellfish in any natural or man-made,
enclosed or impounded, water body.
Any activity that removes the vegetative ground cover.
Features of the earth's surface created by natural causes.
Any facility for the mooring, berthing, storing, or securing
of watercraft, but not including community piers and other noncommercial
boat docking and storage facilities.
The average level of high tides at a given location.
Components and processes present in or produced by nature,
including, but not limited to, soil types, geology, slopes, vegetation,
surface water, drainage patterns, aquifers, recharge areas, climate,
floodplains, aquatic life, and wildlife.
Vegetation consisting of canopy trees, understory trees,
shrubs, and herbaceous plants that are typically found in riparian
areas in Maryland. Areas of natural forest vegetation planted to meet
the mitigation requirements in this chapter shall be designed to replicate
the structure and species composition of natural forests.
Any communities of plants or animals which are considered
to be among the best statewide examples of their kind, and are designated
by regulation by the Secretary of the Department of Natural Resources.
Plant communities that develop in the absence of human activities.
A condition where landforms or biological communities, or
both, have developed by natural processes in the absence of human
activities.
A development activity that takes place on a property with
predevelopment imperviousness of less than 15% as of December 1, 1985.
Pollution generated by diffuse land use activities rather
than from an identifiable or discrete facility. It is conveyed to
waterways through natural processes, such as rainfall, storm runoff,
or groundwater seepage rather than by deliberate discharge. Non-point
source pollution is not generally corrected by "end-of-pipe" treatment,
but rather by changes in land management practices.
Resources that are not naturally regenerated or renewed.
An area that is inundated or saturated by surface water or
groundwater at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and
that under normal circumstances does support, a prevalence of vegetation
typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, commonly
known as "hydrophytic vegetation." The determination of whether an
area is a nontidal wetland shall be made in accordance with the publication
known as the "Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional
Wetlands," published in 1989 and as may be amended. Nontidal wetlands
do not include tidal wetlands regulated under Title 16 of the Environment
Article of the Annotated Code of Maryland.
Structures or actions that compensate for undesirable impacts.
Land and water areas retained in an essentially undeveloped
state.
The strata or material in its natural state, before its removal
by surface mining, overlying a mineral deposit, or in between mineral
deposits.
All nontidal wetlands dominated by trees, shrubs, persistent
emergent plants, or emergent mosses or lichens and all such wetlands
that occur in tidal areas where the salinity due to ocean-derived
salts is below 1/2 part per 1,000 parts of water.
The soils, topography, land slope and aspect, and local climate
that influence the form and species composition of plant communities.
A facility or area established or designated by the state
or local jurisdictions for purposes of waterborne commerce.
For the purpose of establishing setbacks in Buffer Exemption
Areas, it is the primary or predominant structure on any lot or parcel.
For residential parcels or lots, the principal structure is the primary
dwelling, excluding utilities and the septic system.
The cutting and removal of trees for personal use.
The approval of development, other than development by the
state or local government, in the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area by
the appropriate local approval authority. The term includes approval
of subdivision plats and site plans; inclusion of areas within floating
zones; issuance of variances, special exceptions, and conditional
use permits; and issuance of zoning permits. The term does not including
building permits.
Shore-dependent recreation facilities or activities provided
by public agencies which are available to the general public.
The reasonable rehabilitation of disturbed land for useful
purposes, and the protection of the natural resources of adjacent
areas, including water bodies.
The process of developing land which is or has been developed.
For purposes of implementing the Buffer Exemption Area provisions
and compliance with the ten-percent pollutant reduction requirement,
"redevelopment" means a development activity that takes place on a
property with predevelopment imperviousness greater than 15% as of
December 1, 1985.
The establishment of a forest through artificial reproduction
or natural regeneration.
A resource that can renew or replace itself and, therefore,
with proper management, can be harvested indefinitely.
A habitat that is strongly influenced by water and which
occurs adjacent to streams, shorelines, and wetlands.
A condition where surface water is present for extended periods,
especially early in the growing season, and when surface water is
absent, the water table is often near the land surface.
The removal of single, scattered, mature trees or other trees
from uneven-aged stands by frequent and periodic cutting operations.
Any of a number of structural and nonstructural methods or
techniques for controlling the erosion of shoreline areas. More specifically,
the term refers to:
NONSTRUCTURALCreation of an intertidal marsh fringe channelward of the existing bank by one of the following methods:
VEGETATIONPlanting an existing shore with a wide band of vegetation;
BANK SLOPING/VEGETATIONSloping and planting a nonwooded bank to manage tidal water contact, using structures to contain sloped materials if necessary; and
CONTAINED BEACHFilling along shore with sandy materials, grading, and containing the new beach to eliminate tidal water contact with the bank.
STRUCTURAL REVETMENTFacing laid on a sloping shore to reduce wave energy and contain shore materials.
BULKHEADExcluded due to adverse impacts to the near-shore marine environment, except in the following special cases:
Areas that erode two feet or more per year.
Land use plans for farms that show farmers how to make the
best possible use of their soil and water resources while protecting
and conserving those resources for the future. It is a document containing
a map and related plans that indicate:
Those fish and wildlife whose continued existence as part
of the state's resources is in question and which may be designated
by regulation by the Secretary of Natural Resources as in need of
conservation pursuant to the requirements of Natural Resources Article,
§§ 10-2A-06 and 4-2A-03, Annotated Code of Maryland.
The overburden and reject materials as piled or deposited
during surface mining.
Slopes of 15% or greater incline.
A forest practice used to accelerate tree growth of quality
trees in the shortest interval of time.
The existing configuration of the earth's surface, including
the relative relief, elevation, and position of land features.
A plant community whose species are adapted to the diverse
and varying environmental conditions that occur along the boundary
that separates aquatic and terrestrial areas.
Anything that is built, installed, or established to provide
a means of transport from one place to another.
Those perennial and intermittent streams in the Critical
Area which are so noted on the most recent U.S. Geological Survey
7.5-minute topographic quadrangle maps (scale 1:24,000) or on more
detailed maps or studies at the discretion of the local jurisdictions.
Fixed structures that convey or distribute resources, wastes,
or both, including but not limited to electrical lines, water conduits
and sewer lines.
A facility where sand and gravel are washed during processing.
The raising of fish and shellfish in any natural, open, free-flowing
water body.
Structures or works associated with industrial, maritime,
recreational, educational, or fisheries activities that require location
at or near the shoreline within the Buffer.
An industry that requires location near the shoreline because
it utilizes surface waters for cooling or other internal purposes.
Birds which frequent and often swim in water, nest and raise
their young near water, and derive at least part of their food from
aquatic plants and animals.
A strip of land having vegetation that provides habitat and
safe passage for wildlife.
