§ 1A00.2. Purposes.

Pursuant to the above findings, it is the purpose of the Resource Conservation Zones to:

A.

Discourage present land use patterns of development and to create a framework for planned or orderly development;

B.

Provide sufficient and adequate areas for rural-suburban and related development in selected and suitable areas;

C.

Protect both natural and man-made resources from compromising effects of specific forms and densities of development;

D.

Protect areas desirable for more intensive future development by regulating undesirable forms of development within these areas until such time as intensive development commences.

E.

Help achieve the goals of the Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Protection Law by enacting land use policies to control development within the Critical Area by conserving the land and water resource base for agriculture, forestry and other natural resource uses; minimizing adverse effects on water quality; and conserving fish, wildlife and plant habitat.

[Bill No. 32-1988]