During 1985 and 1986, Tony Redman
worked under contract with the Chesapeake Bay Critical Areas Commission to provide
technical assistance in the preparation of criteria and standards for future development
within Maryland’s Chesapeake Bay Critical Area. Tony served as facilitator to the
development subcommittee members and provided technical assistance to the Chairman and
Executive Director concerning other criteria topic areas. He also assisted on the
Commission in briefings on proposed criteria before the Joint Oversite Committee of the
Maryland General Assembly.
Since adoption of the Maryland
Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Law, Redman/Johnston Associates, Ltd. (now
Peter Johnston & Associates, LLC), has been
contracted by over 20 counties and municipalities throughout Maryland to prepare local
Critical Area programs, including necessary revisions to each jurisdiction’s
development regulations. Each jurisdiction’s program addresses inventory and mapping
of land use and natural resource features, designation of shoreline management areas,
types and densities of development allowed in the Critical Area overlay district, criteria
for water-dependent facilities, shoreline erosion protection forest and woodland
protection, agriculture, surface mining, natural parks, and habitat protection.
Maryland counties and municipalities
RJA has assisted in preparing Chesapeake Bay Critical Area programs include:
Counties: Cecil, Charles,
Queen Anne’s, Somerset, St. Mary’s, and Wicomico.
Municipalities: Betterton,
Cambridge, Centreville, Charlestown, Crisfield, Easton, Greensboro, Havre de Grace,
Mardela Springs, Millington, North East, Oxford, Perryville, Pocomoke, Port Deposit,
Princess Anne, Rock Hall, Salisbury, Secretary, Sharptown, St. Michaels, and Vienna.
These jurisdictions encompass over
207,000 acres of land located within 1,000 feet of tidal waters or tidal wetlands. This
total represents nearly half of the total Critical Area in Maryland.
