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Land
Use Plan
The principle land use goal of the City of
Hagerstown is to assure the efficient and safe revitalization of the city
and its neighborhoods while protecting amenity and environmental values.
In order to achieve that goal, the Plan identifies the following policies.
- Encourage the development of new uses within the urban area, rather
than beyond the Urban Services Area.
- Promote a variety of uses in the downtown area.
- Permit multiple uses on larger sites and in appropriate buildings.
- Foster better communication between the City and Washington County
on land-use issues and eliminate inconsistent goals at City-County
boundaries.
- Reduce conflicts between land uses.
- Identify significant vacant parcels and study uses; utilize in economic
development program if appropriate.
Areas of particular interest include the lands between the I-81 corridor
and the West End, the lands between the I-70 corridor and the Edgewood
and Oak Ridge areas, the City Farm, the Harrison Farm tract, and the
Wesel Boulevard area.
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Make changes in the Zoning Regulations to bring them into compliance with
the Plan.
Future Land Use Issues
- Accommodation of small neighborhood stores in residential districts.
- Encouragement of mixed use sites and buildings in appropriate areas.
- Regulation of single-family house divisions and duplex construction
to require off-street parking.
- Regulation of in-town industrial and office areas to require buffers
for adjacent residential uses.
- Develop techniques to encourage location of all types of uses within
the City.
- Inventory and market available vacant land and business buildings.
Provision of buffer areas along Hamilton Run, Marsh Run, and Antietam
Creek, to protect the streams from development impacts and to create
opportunities for greenway development in the City.
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