Save the Queen is an assembly of citizens committed to slow development and traffic congestion so that we retain our countryside for as long as possible. We believe large development should be stopped in this County. Large developments are any plan to build more than eight houses.  Developers purchase farms and break them up, selling rows of identical plastic houses which ruin the countryside. With a new bridge coming up, there will be another housing boom wave before long. That additional traffic is going to make the situation much worse. This restriction can be put in place by moratorium, tax and fee changes, or other legal steps.

          When the first and second Bay Bridges were built, each brought a boom, a rush of new large developments. This is about to happen again if we don’t change County planning.  Life here will go irreversibly to hell, because we can’t build more roads. Another housing boom is going to make our traffic a nightmare. A new wave of immigration means we will have to build new schools to accommodate additional kids. This brings increased taxes because new schools cost $70 to $90 million upfront, and the State is broke.

          By now, you get the point. This period is our last chance to close the door on major development. We should retain and encourage the right to right to build individual houses and limited small neighborhoods. But the monster developments must stop. This will slow runaway growth. Queen Anne’s County must not sink into an ugly suburban horror like Middletown or the outskirts of Rehobeth. Once it happens there’s no going back and we’ll wish we could turn the clock back to where we are today. Many readers are today living in developments of the age and type we are now asking to stop. These older communities have been an asset to the County because the required roads, schools, sewer, and infrastructure were available at the time they were built to handle additional capacity. But these times are over. Accommodating only minor development will give the County a rational and stable growth rate.

                    Traffic, generally,  is not the fault of any one term of government.  But our current zoning is set up to allow runaway development. So now it’s time to change it. We need to put new planning regulations in place halting runaway development in Queen Anne’s County. Our government should be committed to stopping major developers from consuming the countryside, clogging the roads and eating up farmland with bloated communities. Remember that, on average,  each development house has two or more cars. Just one 300 house community creates 9000 feet, or almost 2 miles of solid back-to-back traffic on already crowded roads. 

          We ask you to join us in a major public commitment to slow down runaway growth. We don’t want money. We want your support and dedication to create a government that is committed to Save Queen Anne’s County by creating whatever legal mechanisms are necessary to stop major development within Queen Anne’s County.  This still leaves untouched the freedom to build individual houses or minor subdivisions. In addition, we expect other legal steps may be necessary to slow growth to an acceptable rate.

The attached page explains how we will get this done together.

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