Navy County Joint Meeting Presentation on Comprehensive Plan Updates

The presentation covers the Navy County joint meeting held on October 26, 2021, focusing on encroachment mitigation, St. Mary's County Comprehensive Plan updates, and key elements of the plan. It includes insights on the archives, the 2010 Comprehensive Plan update, and State-required visions and elements for the future. The update to the 2010 Comprehensive Plan is emphasized, highlighting demographic changes and required vision components like Quality of Life, Sustainability, and Public Participation.

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• Comprehensive Plan
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1. Navy / County Joint Meeting October 26, 2021 Encroachment Mitigation and Prevention 1

2. Navy / County Joint Meeting October 26, 2021 Briefing on Update to the St. Mary s County Comprehensive Plan 2

3. This presentation has three parts: 1.St. Mary s County Comprehensive Plan Archives 2.Updating the 2010 Comprehensive Plan 3.Text examples in the 2010 Comprehensive Plan about the Navy 3

4. Part 1 - Archives 4

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8. St. Marys County comprehensive plans: 1967 1978 1982 1988 1999 2002 2010 Lexington Park 2016 8

9. Part 2 Update to the 2010 Comprehensive Plan The State requires periodic updates to a county s adopted comprehensive plan. Update to the St. Mary s County Comprehensive Plan is due in 2023. The state scheduled the updates to for the 2020 Census data 2010 population 105,151 2020 population 113,777 Increase of 8,626 = 8.2% 9

10. Some of the State-required visions in the plan Quality of Life and Sustainability Public Participation Growth Areas Community Design Infrastructure Transportation 10

11. Housing Economic Development Environmental Protection Implementation 11

12. Key required elements of a plan Water Resources Element Land Use Plan and Growth Management Element Transportation Plan Element Public Facilities Element Housing Element Economic Element 12

13. Part 3 Comprehensive Plans and the Navy Each Comprehensive Plan has some mention of the Navy and County Navy coordination Before the base was called NAS Patuxent River, it is named Patuxent Naval Air Test Center in the 1967 plan. The base starts to be called NAS Patuxent River in the 1978 Comprehensive Plan AICUZ is mentioned for the first time in the 1978 Comprehensive Plan 13

14. Text Samples from the 2010 Comprehensive Plan The Home of a Premier Aircraft Testing and Evaluation Facility The overall economic development strategy for the County is to focus on core industries while encouraging business diversity. The first priority is to continue to support the strong defense economy that supports NAS Patuxent River. 14

15. Vision 8. Economic development: Support semi-annual encroachment partnering meetings between the Navy and CSMC Existing facilities at NAS Patuxent River and Webster Field are protected from encroachment by development. 15

16. To support the continued function and contributions of NAS Patuxent River the County is committed to: minimizing encroachment, improving schools, ensuring adequate housing, improving transportation, 16

17. To support the continued function and contributions of NAS Patuxent River the County is committed to: revitalizing Lexington Park, promoting international marketing, encouraging technology transfer and other forms of economic diversification, providing a range of lodging and conference facilities. 17

18. Workforce expansion is vital: Public school system, Higher education, Attracting complimentary businesses: light manufacturing, fabrication, assembly, UAV manufacturing, technology transfer, commercialization of innovations. 18

19. Transportation Support continuous improvement of transportation infrastructure within the County and regionally for access to the Patuxent River Naval Air Station and effective cross-county travel for residents. Support continuing efforts to address long- range replacement or reconstruction of the Thomas Johnson Bridge. Support alternative transportation including pedestrian and bicycle use 19

20. Include the AICUZ in Land Use and Planning ordinances. Support Joint Land Use Studies (JLUS). 20

21. Thank you Questions? 21