![]() "Critical habitat area" means a critical habitat for an endangered species and its surrounding protection area. "Commercial logging or timber harvesting operations" means the cutting and removing of tree stems from a site for commercial purposes, leaving the root mass intact. ![]() "Commercial and industrial uses" means manufacturing operations, office complexes, shopping centers, and other similar uses and their associated storage areas, yarding and parking areas, and corresponds to the following Classifications within the Town of Easton’s Zoning code: Central Business (CR), General Commercial (CG), Select Industrial (I-1) and General Industrial (I-2). "Champion tree" means the largest tree of its species within the United States, the State of Maryland, Talbot County, or the Town of Easton. “Canopy tree” means a tree that when mature commonly reaches a height of at least 24 feet. "Caliper" means the diameter measured at 2 inches above the root collar. Which operates as a protective agreement for forest conservation as described in the Natural Resources Article, §§5-1607(e)-(f), Annotated Code of Maryland. Approved by the Department of Natural Resources forester assigned to the Town of Easton in Talbot County andī. "Approved forest management plan" means a document:Ī. "Applicant" means a person who is applying for subdivision, project plan approval or for a grading and or sediment and erosion control permit or who has received approval of a Forest Stand Delineation or Forest Conservation Plan. There is no current zoning classification which corresponds to this definition. "Agricultural and resource areas" means undeveloped areas zoned for densities of less than or equal to one dwelling unit per 5 acres. ![]() "Agricultural activity" means farming activities including plowing, tillage, cropping, installation of best management practices, seeding, cultivating, and harvesting for production of food and fiber products (except commercial logging and timber harvesting operations), the grazing and raising of livestock, aquaculture, sod production, orchards, nursery and other products cultivated as part of a recognized commercial enterprise. It also includes, but is not limited to, the activities of feeding, housing and maintaining of animals such as cattle, dairy cows, sheep, goats, hogs, horses and poultry and handling their by-products. This includes, but is not limited to, the related activities of tillage, fertilization, pest control, harvesting and marketing. ![]() “Agriculture” means the planting of open areas which are not presently in forest cover and includes all methods of production and management of livestock, crops, vegetation and soil.Ī. Establishment of a forest on an area from which forest cover has been absent for a long period of time or In this Ordinance the following terms have the meanings indicated.Ī. ![]()
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