FREDERICK, Md. (AP) - An advisory panel is meeting to review public comments on its recommendations for protecting the Monocacy River in Frederick and Carroll counties.
The meeting of the Monocacy Scenic River Citizens’ Advisory Board is set for Wednesday evening at Winchester Hall in downtown Frederick.
At a meeting in December, some riverside landowners called the plan an attack on their property rights. Critics have focused on a proposed, 300- to 500-foot buffer on either side of the river where development would be prohibited in favor of ecological restoration.
Proponents say the plan is meant to protect the river for future generations.
The board began soliciting comments on the proposed plan in October. It would be the first management plan update since the state designated the waterway a scenic river in 1974.
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