“This bill is very complex,” said Transportation and Long Range Planning Director Keith Hall. “It’s not a one-day read.”
The driving force behind the bill is an effort to encourage development on existing water and sewer and to shy away from adding more septics to Wicomico. The end goal of having less septics is to improve water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, which Hall said Annapolis has put on a “pollution diet.” However, while Hall felt that there are “pros and cons” to the bill, he acknowledged that its restrictiveness could harm individual land owners.“During the last meeting, we heard several concerns,” he told the council.
Tiers II and III would allow major subdivisions to be built on septic systems in either a limited capacity or after a public hearing and approval of the Planning Commission, respectively.
8 comments:
After a public hearing, the planning commission will do what it want's to do anyway. A public hearing in Wicomico County is nothing but a smoke screen. Your opinion and solutions simply don't count. Don't waste your time, because the decision is already made.
thats what we need more lines going into a failed city septic system that over flows when it rains. what a bunch of idiots we have running things
i see joe holloway and others we thought would protect the farmers have sold there soles
I agree with 6:00...they don't really want to fix anything. The worse the Bay gets the greater the excuse to regulate (take over).
Don't blame Joe. This is state law that was pushed through last session by the O'Malley Administration and Maryland Department of Planning! It is written in such a way that forces the Commissioners of each County to either pass the tiers or lose the right to do major subdivisions on septic. Either way the farmers are scr*w*d.
Comments from people like 6:09, are a perfect example of idiots that have no idea of current events, yet flap their lips and make themselves look like bigger idiots than they are. This is a STATE tier system being forced on the counties....the county has virtually no say over it. If you don't like it.....go bitch to O'Malley.
7:38 has it exactly correct. The council is being forced by the state to pick the method that they will screw the landowners in Wicomico. There is no good solution, O'Malley has screwed us completely.
anonymous 10:31, you are 100% correct.
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