Religious Freedom Byway Management Plan

FILE CABINET: Project Overview and Schedule [pdf] Meeting Agendas and Notes AC Meeting #1 AC Meeting #1 - Notes [pdf] Transcription of Card Comments AC Meeting #1 - Slides [click to view slides] St. Mary's BOCC slides AC Meeting #2 Draft corridor definition memo Draft vision, goals and a preliminary list of ideas AC Meeting #3  Conservation and Enhancement Strategies (draft) Notes from AC#3 Slides from AC#3 (coming) AC Meeting #4  Draft Interpretive Summary Notes from AC#4 AC Meeting #5 Draft Heritage Tourism Background and Strategies Slides from AC#5 Notes from AC#5 AC Meeting #6  Draft transportation strategies memo Draft wayfinding strategies ALSO click on Map 1, Byway Access and Interpretive Sites below Notes from AC#6 Byway Planning Public Workshop #2   Draft Plan Summary NEW! Meeting slide show - NEW APPENDICES TO DRAFT PLAN PDF files require  Adobe Reader free!) Appendix 1 - Inventory Maps  [drafts]   REVISED 3-31-08 to fit 11 x 17 paper size! 1. Byway Access and Interpretive Sites 2. Recreational areas and scenic views- St. Mary's 3. Recreational areas and scenic views- Charles 4. Natural Resources and Conserved Lands - St. Mary's 5. Natural Resources and Conserved Lands - Charles 6. Byway Cultural Resources - St. Mary's 7, Byway Cultural Resources - Charles 8. Draft transportation inventory map 9. Byway Enhancement Priorities Appendix 2 - record of meetings found in filing cabitent above Appendix 3 -  Concept Plans [Drafts for review - these are illustrative examples only!] Purse State Park Port Tobacco Leonardtown - Existing Leonardtown - Proposed Concept Appendix 4 - Implementation Table Links: Charles County St. Mary's County State Highway Administration Byway Program Federal Highway Administration Scenic Byway Program

The Religious Freedom Byway Management Draft Plan has been revised and is ready for a more formal review by each County - please see below for links to plan! Over the last year, St. Mary’s and Charles Counties have formed a management committee including representatives of each County, the Southern Maryland Heritage Area, and their state agency partners at the State Highway Administration, Office of Tourism Development, and Department of Planning to develop a scope of work and hire a consultant to assist in the preparation of a byway management plan. The Counties have hired a multi-disciplined team of landscape architects, planners, engineers, and historians headed by Lardner/Klein Landscape Architects, P.C., to assist in the development of the plan. An advisory committee has been formed to assist in the development of the management plan. The Religious Freedom Byway Advisory Committee represents a cross-section of those people that live or work along the byway, those that are responsible for its management, and those with extensive knowledge of the history of the area.  The Byway Advisory Committee will: assist in the formulation of a vision, goals and objectives for the plan provide information to the planning team about important features and points of interest along the byway assist in the development of strategies to preserve and enhance important features and to help determine how best to take advantage of the opportunities make recommendations regarding how the plan will be implemented make recommendations on whether or not to pursue designation as a National Byway Religious Freedom Byway Management Plan DRAFT PLAN (Rev. 1 - 3/31/08) Please take a moment and review the draft plan.  Our advisory committee and management team have taken an initial look at the plan and we have updated the plan based on their comments.  The plan will now be submitted to the Maryland Department of Planning's Clearinghouse for review by  Click on your choice of a full copy or chapter: Download a Full Copy of the Revised Draft - 15.3mb ... or just download the revised draft chapters Cover and Table of Contents - 229 kb Chapter 1 - 220 kb Chapter 2 - 1.2 mb Chapter 3 - 476 kb Chapter 4 - 8.8 mb Chapter 5 - 180 kb Appendices are available in the file cabinet at left Background materials from each of the Advisory Committee meetings, along with the slide show and executive summary from the public meetings are posted in the file cabinet. Planning Commission Public Hearings will be scheduled for this summer.  Thank you for your interest in the Religious Freedom Byway Management Plan. For more information or to submit comments and suggestions please contact: Teresa Wilson, Historic Preservation Planner St. Mary’s County Department of Land Use and Growth Management 301-475- 4200 ext. 1549 or Teresa.Wilson@co.saint-marys.md.us or Beth Clark, Planner Charles County Department of Planning and Growth Management 301-645-0684  or clarkb@charlescounty.org