2-Year History/Development of the 2024 Envision Havre de Grace Comprehensive Plan Havre de Grace2-Year History/Development of the 2024 Envision Havre de Grace Comprehensive Plan Agency and public comments received during the 60-day review period on the DRAFT 2024 Envision Havre de Grace Comprehensive Plan: Maryland Department of Planning Department of Natural Resources Harford County Planning & Zoning Public Comments The DRAFT 2024 Envision Havre de Grace is now available! Please see the following links. Cover, Message from Mayor Martin, and Section I: Purpose of the Plan, A Preamble Section II: Plan for the City Chapter 1. Visions and Goals Chapter 2. Land Use: A Whole-City Plan Chapter 3. Sustainable Community: A Strategy for Growth Chapter 4. Municipal Growth Element: A Strategy for Growth Chapter 5. Relationship to the Lower Susquehanna Heritage Greenway Section III: Implementation Chapter 6. Regulatory Framework Chapter 7. Economic Development and Tourism Chapter 8. Water Resources: Supply and Protection Chapter 9. Sensitive Areas: Environmental Resource Protection Chapter 10. Historic and Cultural Resources Chapter 11. Transportation: A Focus on Multimodal Options Chapter 12. Community Facilities Chapter 13. Housing Section IV: Supporting Resources Demographic Data and Analysis Housing Element Data and Analysis Residential Development Capacity, January 2024 Water Distribution, Technical Source Information (GHD Study, January 2021) Technical Maps: Tier I and II Existing and Planned Service Areas for Sewer, 2012 Floodplain, 2016 Chesapeake Bay Critical Area, 2022 Please send comments to Dianne Klair, Senior Planner, at diannek@havredegracemd.com. The City’s comment period will be open until Friday, June 7, 2024. Thank you for your interest in this Comprehensive Plan! If you are interested in the Planning Commission public work sessions, StoryMaps, or initial public input into this DRAFT document, please see the links below. ————- Development of the 2024 Comprehensive Plan The Department of Planning and the Planning Commission began an update of Comprehensive Plan in September 2022 with the publication of 7 StoryMaps, each with surveys, for gaining public input for the plan. The Planning Commission hosted sessions for each chapter as it was being written. Please check out the following presentation links to see the progress of Envision Havre de Grace, the 2023 Comprehensive Plan update. Presentation links: Work Session 1, Getting Started Work Session 2, Preamble and Land Use Work Session 3, Sustainable Community and Relationship to LSHG Work Session 4, Public Input, Visions, Sustainable Community Actions, Community Facilities Work Session 5, Municipal Growth Element, A Strategy for Growth Work Session 6, Sensitive Areas: Environmental Resource Protection Work Session 7, Water Resources Supply and Protection Work Session 8, Historic and Cultural Resources Regulatory Framework & Zoning Work Session 9 & 10, Transportation: A Focus on Multimodal Options Work Session 11, Housing Element Work Session 12, Economic Development and Tourism Comprehensive Plan Update PowerPoint – June 20, 2023 Council Meeting (View video presentation here at 1:26 mark) If you are interested in the public input materials, please see this link for the Envision HdG StoryMaps: https://havredegracemd.gov/envision-hdg/ If you are interested in Planning Commission meetings where these work sessions were held, please see the City’s YouTube video link: https://www.youtube.com/@havredegracemd/playlists If you are interested in viewing all the public comments received from the Envision HdG StoryMap surveys, please click here for the survey results.
