This Ordinance shall apply to all the lands, uses and improvements within the territorial limits of Calvert County, except for the incorporated territory of any municipality in the County, or except as modified by the Town Center Master Plans and Zoning Ordinances. Except as otherwise specified, the use of any property and the construction or alteration of any building or structure shall conform to the requirements of this Ordinance.

For the purpose of determining rights attendant to a parcel of land by virtue of the property being a discrete parcel, any determination as to the description of the parcel shall go back no further than the parcel as it existed in a deed under which the grantee in the deed held title to real property as of June 29,1967.

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Ordinance to the contrary, this Ordinance does not apply to a Qualified Commercial Power Generating Facility or a Liquid Natural Gas Import or Export Facility as defined herein.

The Maryland General Assembly, in the Land Use Article of the Maryland Annotated Code, has established as policy of the State that the orderly development and use of land and structures requires comprehensive regulation through the implementation of planning and zoning control, and that planning and zoning controls shall be implemented by local government in order to, among other purposes, secure the public safety, promote health and general welfare, and promote the conservation of natural resources.