Bunker, staff say map doesn’t meet septic bill’s intent
The Charles County Planning Commission’s majority chose to discard a staff-recommended tier map and instead passed at Monday’s meeting a septic tier map submitted by the Balanced Growth Initiative.
The BGI map passed 4-2, with Commission Vice Chairman Joe Richard and commission members Lou Grasso, Joan Jones and Bob Mitchell voting for it. Commission Chairman Courtney Edmonds and commission member Steve Bunker voted against the BGI map. Commission member Joe Tieger was absent. The same vote discarded the staff tier map.
BGI, a group that opposes rural land restrictions in the comprehensive plan and other county land use policies, presented a map at a public hearing Sept. 24 that staff said Monday did not meet the intent of the Sustainable Growth and Agricultural Preservation Act, also known as the “septic bill.”
The septic bill requires counties to draw maps depicting where sewer and septic system services are permitted.
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They should be drawing maps showing where municipal systems are prohibited.
Seems that those are the ones that overflowed millions of gallons of raw sewage into the Bay during the last storm.
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