That he says, Oh, that was Dick Henson.

He can do anything he wants.

I don't know if you guys know how bottom I was a big Henson.

He he is the greatest guy in the world.

He is the greatest guy.

He just is awesome.

I didn't know him at that moment, but um anyway.

CrossPath's law.

In supporting this document's principles outlined in the land use housing, fair housing, and other sections.

We're happy to partner with the town now and in the future to achieve the goals set forth in the comprehensive plan and are willing participants in furthering the town's fair housing goals being a resource in the development of land use and housing initiatives.

We'd like the opportunity to assist in helping support the legislation passed in 2025, requiring local governments to adopt accessory dwelling policies in single family zones by October of 2026.

Please let me know when there's an opportunity to participate in these discussions.

Thank you again for your dedicated work on this comprehensive plan, and I look forward to seeing you as the work moves forward.

Best Hunter.

And again, a copy of this email has been provided for the transcript.

Yeah, Hunter actually he called me this afternoon and said he couldn't make the public hearing, but wanted to offer his support for the for the plan and also offered a collaborate with the town on anything that they could help with.

So we have something that needs to be woven into this.

I don't know that it needs to be woven into this necessarily.

Um and we'll we'll go ahead and note that that's a request.

What's this what would be his in that letter?

Did he expand on what he thought or how he thought it could be implemented?

A to use?

He did not.

I mean, there's a lot of there's so many variables in that.

It's great to have the comment, but that's like saying I want um pie for Thanksgiving.

There's like different pies.

I mean, right there's different ways to skin the cat, if you will.

So just to note um to make the commissioners aware of it, since you will be working on this, um the state of Maryland adopted a um new regulation that requires municipalities to explore accessory dwelling units um in their uh zoning regulations by October.

Um you can either October 26.

Uh 2026, yes.

Um we are waiting for comments from the state in regards to that right now before we bring that in front of you.

Um we hope that will be coming soon.

Um there is mandate that you have it or you uh can opt out of doing it, but you would have to do a parking study.

Uh we want to see what that parking study looks like before we bring in comments and review that.

How is the parking study overfit overlay into a ADU ordinance?

That's what we're waiting for comment on.

Uh is that commented by the state?

Yes.

A parking study?

How does that connect with ADUs?

That's what we're looking for guidance.

Okay.

Yeah.

I think that you know, broader, just broader strokes, you know, areas across Maryland are struggling with housing and struggling with affordable housing.

And a lot of times things that come out of Annapolis may not work in our community, but they work in other communities across Maryland.

Right.

So I think that disconnect is probably comes out of hey, this might work really well in Baltimore City, right?

Um, for them to explore that, but it might not have the same impact.

I agree.

I think that's probably important.

But I do think ADUs are a good idea.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The state legislation has some specific um ideas and guidelines and standards that are part of the legislation.

Over the last year, the Maryland Department of Planning hosted m, I think quarterly um meetings of an advisory council that was made up of folks from all over the state uh representing county local government um real estate building industry folks.

Um there was a very detailed discussion of the topic, all the uh alternatives that are possible, and all of that was wrapped into uh this legislation that was adopted.

There's a wealth of information on a state planning web page that we can, you know, when that comes up as a as an agenda item, we can give you all kinds of background of what they discussed, um, the different ideas that are out there, how they think this can be implemented.

So that's um that's a big topic, probably more than one meeting worth.

So is there any action that we need to take to weave this into the draft comprehensive plan other than dub cameling under notes?

This is um item number two on your priority work list of items uh that will be in chapter nine implementation.