Bureau of Comprehensive Planning - Comprehensive Plans

Countywide Plans

     Carroll County Comprehensive Plan: Pathways to Carroll's Future Landscape - In Process

     Carroll County Master Plan - 2000

Adopted Community Comprehensive Plans

     Freedom Community Comprehensive Plan (2001)

     Hampstead Community Comprehensive Plan (2004)

     Manchester and Environs Comprehensive Plan (1998)

     Mount Airy Environs Community Comprehensive Plan (2006)

     New Windsor Community Comprehensive Plan (2007)

     Taneytown and Environs Comprehensive Plan (1997)

     Union Bridge Community Comprehensive Plan (2008)

     Westminster Environs Community Comprehensive Plan (2007)

Comprehensive Plans Currently Under Review

     Finksburg Corridor Plan

     Freedom Community Comprehensive Plan

     Hampstead Community Comprehensive Plan

     Manchester Comprehensive Plan

     Taneytown Comprehensive Plan

     Union Bridge Community Comprehensive Plan

Community Comprehensive Plans

Community comprehensive plans cover the areas for which the County and the municipalities jointly develop plans and coordinate on other planning and development activities. These areas are also those areas in which a more detailed plan has been developed than the County Master Plan addresses. These plans identify a Growth Area Boundary (GAB) for each community. The area within this boundary is designated as a growth area. These areas are indicated in gray on the countywide land use designation map. Below is a map showing the current GABs and the municipal limits.

County Map showing Planning Areas