centreville planning commission work session minutes

Centreville Planning Commission Work Session Novemtrer 17,2021 7:00 p.m.

MINUTES

The November l'7 ,2021 Centreville Planning Commission work session was called to order at 7:00 p.m. by Darren Brown, Chair; in the Liberly Building, second floor meeting room. The following members and staff were present:

Darren Brown, Chair; Pat Fox, Secretary; Patricia Cipriano and Tim Zuella, Members;Nancy Emerick, Alternate Member; Steven K. Kline, Town Council President; Steve Walls, Town Manager; Charles 'Chip' Koogle, Interim Town Manager; Sharon VanEmburgh, Town Attorney; Chris Jakubiak, Town Planner; Paige Tilghman, Economic Development Manager; and Betty Jean Hall, Administrative Assistant.

Citizen Comment No citizens provided comments.

Discussion a.

Comprehensive Plan - Combined Working Draft; Chris Jakubiak o The Town of Centreville Planning Commission is on the cusp of going public with some initial long range planning ideas. It is time to update the Comprehensive Plan for Centreville. A lot of preliminary work has been done and tonight's discussion will begin with the Queen Anne's County Comprehensiv!

Plan.

' The County took the initiative to offer the towns advice in terms of creating a town planning framework chapter.

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The countlz's 60-day public comment period is open until December r3th.

o Direct growth to existing population centers includes Kent Island, Queenstown, Centreville, Church Hill, Sudlersville and smaller unincorporated communities.

' The large growth areathat surrounds Centreville is identified as the County's growth area. Similar to the large undeveloped farmland surrounding Queenstown.

o It appears these areas are the target for real investment in public infrastructure and development, to absorb the growth that would come into a community.

' The plan states Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance (APFO) testing should be part of all annexation agreements. Current Town projects are exempt from the County APFO.

' County funding for municipal infrastructure should be conditioned on compliance with the APFO.

' As the State sends money to the County for open spaces and parks, support funding should be coordinated between the County and Town to ensure both the County and Town needs are met.

r The future County business park at the interchange at Rt. 304 is identified in the Countlz's plan as a Centreville growth area.

o The County is recommending industrial or employment type development be allowed at the interchange of Rt. 301 and213 which, is not a new idea but is a policy choice the County is making and appears to-be no extension of the municipal growth boundary.

' The County Plan recommends there be appropriately zoned commercial space within and adjacent to towns and their growth areas.

e Generally, towns would discourage the development of commercial property adjacent to a municipality unless the town has the ability to extend sewer services and annex thl pioperty. What is then r""n i, u perennial problem of sprawling businesses and economic developmeni outside of a municipality. The townspeople then deal with all the impacts with no contribution to the tax base of the municipaiity. tt is

an easy thing to avoid if the County and Town work together.

e Incorporating the Rt. 301 and 213 interchange into the Town's comprehensive plan as a designated growth area would run counter to what is presently shown on the County's draft plan. However, it would Page 1 of2 reflect the Town's interest to be able to control the look, feel, quality of development and obtain tax base benefits if it were to be developed.

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Mr. Jakubiak will supply points to Mr. Brown for a letter to the County on their draft plan.

o The September Working Draft, distributed in the packets, includes the first five chapters of the Town's draft plan and the rest copied from the current plan.

o Large areas located outside of Centreville are all designated growth areas. They are estimated to be able to accommodate about 4700 households. For context, Centreville has almost 1900 households currently.

These growth areas are so much larger than what is needed for the next 20 years but it is good to have designated growth in these areas for planning and building out over time.

. if The Town has major infill areas which have been estimated to hold a total of housing 731 units reasonable development was approved in these identified infill locations.

o Taylor Mill Road is no longer a through road primarily because of the cost of replacing the bridge. The County made the decision at the time to abandon it because there were not a lot of homes in the area at that time. A per lot fee of $500 in the Symphony Village development was to be placed into an escrow account that the County holds for a bridge to be reinstalled at that site.

o Ultimately, what is going to be the defining point for a lot of municipalities is what level of discharge is permitted from wastewater treatment plants into area waterways and the feasibility to provide land application as an alternative.

o A lot of the Comprehensive Plan hinges on decisions the Town Council will make relative to water and sewer infrastructure. Infill areas do not develop entirely without expansion and growth areas do not develop at all.

Citizen Comment Tim McCluskey, Watson Road and Paige Tilghman, Town of Centreville Economic Development Manager provided comments.

Council ber Renort Mr. Kline stated the current Town Council has not dealt with these questions of growth and sewer and water capacity.

The Council is in support of moving forward with a spray field farm purchase, which is in the FY22 budget. He believes these decisions are being made reactively and the Council needs a proactive approach to these questions.

Mr. Kline toured the Carter Farm and received a debrief of where they are and stated the advocates for the Carter Farm development have made it clear they have an aggressive construction schedule. He stated that he made it equally clear that it is not the purview of the Town Council and expanded that to the Commission members to be overly concerned with construction schedules of a developer. He indicated that if the Planning Commission needs the time, take the time to look

at these things. The Council did pass the text amendment to the zoning ordinance in the subdivision regulations during their last meeting with a vote of 4:1.

Adiournment The November I7 , 2027 Planning Commission work session adjourned at 8: I 9 p.m Respectfully submitted, z/q{",-#tu Betty Jean Hall Administrative Assistant Page 2 of2