Public commenters urged reversal of a 2025 rezoning that expanded industrial zoning near Calvert Cliffs, called for environmental impact statements, and contrasted concerns about community impacts with Constellation representatives’ statements on jobs and tax revenue.

After debate over overflows, PFAS and aquifer data, the Calvert County Planning Commission voted to recommend adoption of the Department of Public Works’ December 2025 Water and Sewer Comprehensive Plan update by the Board of County Commissioners — conditioned on adding explicit sections addressing aquifer sustainability, sea-level rise impacts on septic and treatment sites, saltwater infiltration, PFAS and arsenic, and recent wastewater spills.

County staff and legal counsel told the Board of Appeals that new state critical-area variance standards (effective immediately for new variance applications) require applicants to show substantial need not based on convenience and that they cannot locate the development outside habitat protection areas; staff said the changes will require more detailed findings and training.

Calvert County finance staff presented FY28 planning guidance: conservative 2% assessment growth, a preliminary planning gap of about $15.3M, and discussion of reserve use and a potential tax rollback analysis. County officials pointed to strong reserve policy and AAA ratings as fiscal strengths.

During public comment, residents pressed commissioners to preserve forest and farming zoning, pointed to water/sewer and grid capacity concerns, and urged transparency and local engagement on RFPs and rezoning proposals.

At a work session the board directed staff to prepare steps to extend the current moratorium on data centers and to explore removing data centers as a permitted use and rezoning heavy industrial parcels. Commissioners signaled broad interest in moving options 1–3 forward for the new board to consider.

Medco and Calvert County officials briefed commissioners on an RFP for the 10 remaining lots at Patuxent Business Park, requiring a single‑package purchase and disqualifying any proposal that contemplates data‑center use. Proposals are due Oct. 23, 2026; the county plans an update after responses are reviewed.

Navy officials briefed Calvert County commissioners on the 2026 Air Installations Compatibility (AQ) study for NAS Patuxent River, which updates noise contours and accident potential zones and recommends an overlay/MACRA adoption and formal county‑Navy coordination to reduce encroachment risk.

Commissioners voted to initiate an Owings Town Center master-plan update and initial outreach after staff reported survey results and debate over a potential 88-acre expansion area; commissioners asked for targeted outreach to town-center property owners.

The board authorized the county to proceed to market for a general obligation bond issuance of up to $84 million to finance approved capital projects; members of the public urged delay or narrower borrowing for small projects and stressed maintaining the county's AAA rating.

Following a public hearing with dozens of speakers and organized groups, the Board adopted a six-month moratorium that pauses site-plan approvals for data centers while staff prepares zoning text amendments and studies; many residents urged a longer or broader pause, reversion of zoning changes, or a permanent ban.

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