Folks,
Please plan to attend the Maryland Department of Environment’s first regional focus group meeting on draft guidance documents including proposed revisions to Chapter 5 of the 2000 Maryland Stormwater Design Manual tomorrow at 9:30 a.m. in Salisbury (see below).
The revisions are intended to help implement a law passed last year that requires Environmental Site Design (also called Low Impact Development techniques) to be implemented to the maximum extent practicable in all new construction plans throughout Maryland. Your local knowledge and perspective on why Environmental Site Design helps improve the health of our waterways can be very influential as focus group meetings inform the update process.
More information about the focus group meetings and Chapter 5 revisions is available here:
http://www.mde.state.md.us/Programs/WaterPrograms/SedimentandStormwater/swm2007.asp
Perspectives on the revisions developed by a consortium of groups following the update process are attached for your consideration.
My apologies for the late notice. Please feel free to circulate.
What: Regional Focus Group Meeting
When: Wednesday, January 23, 9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Where: Room 301, Wicomico Government Office Building
125 North Division Street, Salisbury, MD 21801
Directions - http://www.wicomicocounty.org/locations.html
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"Your local knowledge and perspective on why Environmental Site Design helps improve the health of our waterways can be very influential as focus group meetings inform the update process."
ReplyDeleteIf this is so Important, why make it in the morning on a weekday when most of us are working, and unable to make it?
Make meetings later in the day, when average working people are actually able to attend and put in their two cents.....Duhh!!!!
Sir:
ReplyDeleteThey should do something to stop the pollution at Hebron's sewage treatment plant first.
I'm more concerned with the shizzit that flows south from North Spring Hill Road. More specifically, the crap spewed by you know who.
ReplyDeleteGovernment wishes to inform only a few, for the masses would "disrupt" or overthrow the system, if they knew what was going on. I agree, and that we should pass a law (as though we need more) that all public meetings are to be held after 6 pm) Or televised and the dates and time given, and a method of citizen input. The only way to force our public officials to "put government in the sunshine is to force them to have meetings when we can attend.
ReplyDeleteIt would have been nice if the City fo Salisbury and Wicomico County DPW's sent out a memo to local land planning, engineering, and survey firms in the area who submit construction plans and stormwater management reports to them about this meeting.
ReplyDeleteThanks Joe for the post.
Apparently the State is going to make new chicken houses subject to the letter of the law.
ReplyDeleteHell, it'd be nice if the "City of Salisbury" would just inform ALL of its own council members about what it's up to.
ReplyDeleteAs Harrison's writing points out, the news of something good comes about only after Campbell had to keep coming back for answers.
No damn way to run anything.