Resources

One VERY IMPORTANT document is the "Trends and Issues Report, April 2008"

Frederick County Internet Map Service: Frederick County offers various maps online. The GIS map viewer (Map Service link) is nice and offers a lot of county-wide details.

1998 Comprehensive Plan is a good starting point.

Here is a review of the implementation of 1998 Comprehensive Plan.

Growth and Development in the Washington Region.

The Frederick County Comprehensive Plan was last updated in 1998.  AT the end of the plan there is a list of recommendations that were to have been implemented during the last 10 years. This document lists what’s been done to implement those recommendations.

The update process began in March 2008 with presentations by the Division of Planning to the Planning Commission. Here is the trends and issues report and ag preservation materials.

A snapshot of Frederick County Agriculture here.

This document gives background on the Priority Preservation Area.

This document deals with the school capacity information and overcrowding.

Read the municipal water resource issues at this report.

Are you concerned with some of the exemptions given to the resource conservation (RC) and agricultural (AG) zoning? See last two pages of of this document!

Water issues.

Frederick County Zoning Atlas: This provides PDF files of the zoning designations throughout the county.

Countywide Maps and Prints

How does one measure Quality of Life impacts?
Decisions made about land use affect our quality of life. Quality of life impacts can be measured by looking at schools, crime, community atmosphere, emergency services, historic and archaeological resources, conservation, noise, odor, open space preservation, bicyle and walk-ability, parks and recreation, poverty, property ownership, taxes and value, schools, traffic, visual impacts and wildife habitat. An excellent resource to help you evaluate the impacts of a development proposal or land use change on your quality of life is: How to Win Land Development Issues, a 300 page document that can be found online at the Community & Environmental Defense Services,website: http:// www.ceds.org.

Here is a snapshot of the Frederick County Agriculture

Background information on the "Priority Preservation Area"

Level of Service (LOS) information: LOS spreadsheet (xls file format), and LOS Definitions (Word doc file).