Town of Smithsburg, MD Article I General Provisions

§ 300-1 Title.

This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Adequate Public Facilities Ordinance of the Town of Smithsburg."

§ 300-2 Purpose.

It is the purpose of the Town of Smithsburg that public facilities and services needed to support new development shall be available concurrently with the impacts of such new developments. In meeting this purpose, public facility and service availability shall be deemed sufficient if the public facilities and services for new development are phased, or the new development is phased, so that the public facilities and those related services which are deemed necessary by the local government to operate the facilities necessitated by that new development are available concurrently with the impacts of the new development.