The Maryland Department of Planning said Baltimore City?s new master plan “does not comply with state law.” The criticism comes just weeks before major overhaul of Baltimore?s zoning and development priorities moves toward the final stages of approval, and may stall the city planning department?s ambitious schedule for final approval.
According to documents obtained by The Examiner, Maryland Director of local planning Patricia Goucher wrote that “the plan is written in such a manner that does not, in it present form address certain required elements of state law.” Cited by Goucher as general problems in her letter were inadequate provisions for stewardship of the Chesapeake bay, lack of a plan to for “conservation of resources,” and funding to achieve the plan?s “vision.”
