# COMAR Title 27 — Critical Area Commission for the Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays

## Subtitle 01 — Criteria for Local Critical Area Program Development

### Chapter 03 — Water-Dependent Facilities and Activities

#### Regulation .07 Community Piers and Other Community Boat-Docking and Storage Facilities.

*COMAR 27.01.03.07*

A. The provisions of this regulation are in addition to the provisions of Regulations .03 and .04 of this chapter.

B. Subject to the requirements under §C of this regulation, a local jurisdiction may approve the location of a new or expanded community pier or other community boat-docking or storage facility in the buffer if:

  (1) The owner or operator of the pier or facility:

    (a) Does not offer food, fuel, or other goods and services for sale in the buffer or on the community pier; and

    (b) As applicable, complies with the requirements of COMAR 26.24.04.03;

  (2) The pier or facility is community-owned and established and operated for the benefit of the residents of a platted and recorded riparian subdivision;

  (3) The pier or facility is associated with a residential project approved by the local jurisdiction as consistent with all State and local program requirements;

  (4) Disturbance to the buffer is the minimum necessary to provide a single point of access to the pier or facility; and

  (5) If a community pier is provided as part of a new residential project, private piers are prohibited in that residential project.

C. The number of slips authorized at a pier or facility shall be the lesser of §C(1) or (2) of this regulation:

  (1) One slip for each 50 feet of shoreline in a residential project in the intense development and limited development areas, and one slip for each 300 feet of shoreline in a residential project in the resource conservation area; or

  (2) A density of slips to platted lots or dwellings within a residential project in the Critical Area according to the following schedule: