Calvert County residents will get another chance to weigh in on the future of Huntingtown’s town center at a community meeting Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 6 p.m. at the Huntingtown Volunteer Fire Department, 4030 Old Town Road. The meeting will also be livestreamed on the county’s YouTube channel.
The Huntingtown Town Center Master Plan was originally adopted in 1993 and has guided land use, transportation, community facilities, economic development, and environmental stewardship in the area for more than three decades. County planners say master plans are typically updated roughly every decade, making Huntingtown’s 32 years without a revision unusually long.
While the county’s announcement frames this meeting as the start of the update process, county planning records show the effort has actually been underway since mid-2025. The Planning Commission directed staff to begin the update in July 2025, and the county ran an online public survey that July and August to help shape the plan’s direction. An initial public input meeting reviewing the survey results was already held at the same Huntingtown fire department in October 2025. In November, county planners presented — without a formal vote — a recommendation to eliminate the option of rezoning the town center to a Rural Commercial District, to avoid creating nonconforming land uses; the county’s own materials note that option is no longer under consideration following public feedback. This month’s meeting continues that ongoing process rather than beginning it.
The Huntingtown plan implements the county’s broader Comprehensive Plan, which designates Huntingtown as one of Calvert County’s official town centers — a concept the county adopted in 1983 to concentrate growth, commercial activity, and housing in specific designated areas. A 2019 amendment to the Comprehensive Plan simplified the county’s town center categories into a single designation, and a 2022 amendment narrowed the list of areas eligible for future expansion to just four: Huntingtown, Lusby, Prince Frederick, and Solomons. Huntingtown’s update is running alongside similar plan updates for those other town centers; the Prince Frederick chapter in particular has drawn attention over land currently zoned as an Employment Center within that town’s boundaries.
County officials say public input will remain central throughout the rest of the process, and are encouraging residents and business owners to take part in this and future outreach opportunities. Comments can also be submitted directly to the county’s planning staff, and more information is available on the county’s Master Plan of Town Centers and Zoning Ordinance Updates page.
