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2005 07/21/05 - It is the end of the three year long
struggle that many folks have joined. We can celebrate what we've
accomplished together, avocational archaeologist
and professional alike. However, it
will mean that we must begin a new effort to offer our volunteer work,
knowledge and assistance to the City in this regards. We can also then look forward to working
with a new archeological consultant at the City, and partner with them to
bring digs and preservation grant funds to the City, as well as develop
public participation in every aspect of archaeology locally, education, displays,
and training and dig/work hours. 07/13/05 - The City of 07/07/05 Coalition
will meet at City Hall to discuss revision draft of Section 603 of 06/29/05 Several
parties spoke in favor of the ordinance and it was again deferred until the
coalition and all interests were able to meet and forge a compromise to
revise the current language. 06/22/05 Archaeological Review Section
603 Frederick City Land Management Code (LMC) was deferred until 6/29/05
meeting because of Goodwin firm's letter objecting to the language. 05/12/05 Our
archaeological review efforts are highlighted in this Gazette article
today! 03/31/05 Once again, we turned out, last night we had over
12 members attend the meeting! We had partners from Archeological
Society of 03/15/05 Local members waged a valiant last minute effort to
save the Many
thanks to Wayne Clark (who left a job at home on his day off insulating his
basement to attend), and Jim Gibbs (who brought his on the ground Members
also followed up with the Planning Commission testimony on March 17th, with
Nancy Geasey, former ASM President speaking, and
again, Jim Gibbs, and Andy Stout, our local Archaeological Conservancy
executive! We will
be there again on March 30th to support archaeology at a public hearing, with
MHT's Richard Hughes, 2004 8/31/04 The The
following notes are taken from the draft plan on the County website... SENSITIVE AREAS
ELEMENT Section 3.05(a)(4)(viii)
of Article 66B states that the Comprehensive Plan shall include a Sensitive
Areas Element that contains goals, objectives, principles, policies, and
standards designed to protect, from the adverse effects of development.
Sensitive areas are defined to include: • Streams and
their buffers; • 100-year
floodplains; • Habitats of
threatened and endangered species; and • Steep
slopes; and • Other areas
in need of special protection, as determined in the plan. As indicated
above, the Act
also permits the Sensitive Areas Plan element to include "other areas
in need of special protection, as determined in the plan." (Section
1.00(2)(j) of Article 66B, Annotated Code of • • Areas of
prime agricultural soils outside of planned community growth boundaries; • Groundwater
resources, particularly with regard to wellhead protection areas; • Wetlands; • Limestone
conglomerate/carbonate rock areas; and • Historic
and archaeological resources. Members
of the Monocacy Archeological Society plan to visit
the Archeological Society of Virginia and PIT cosponsored field school at the
Keyser Farm Site in Page County, Virginia, located between Luray and Front
Royal. The dig will be conducted from July 12-31, 2004, but MAS plans
to tour on Saturday, July 24. We will be carpooling from the Frederick
area and ask that if you want to join the group that you contact Members Notes
Section of the Website! April
17th, volunteers may assist in sprucing up the existing Derr
House along Rt 26 at Dearbought,
from 1 PM until 6 PM, please bring garden and house cleaning tools with
you! This is an excellent chance to see this historic property under
early preservation and to contribute to its community contribution. March29th,
Nancy Geasey and Jack Lynch attended the City of
Frederick Land Management Ordinance Update Public Review session and were
part of a larger group from Landmarks in speaking in favor of archeological
review outside the Historic District of Frederick and the hiring of a City
Archeologist. Barbara Wyatt, Historic Preservationist for March
30th, MAS President Joy Hurst, Nancy Geasey and
Coalition for Frederick Archeology advocate Jack Lynch will once again tape a
Cable Channel 10 show for 'Focus on March 17th,
an Odds and Ends note in the Frederick News-Post stated that former State
Archeologist Frederick
City is proposing that it develop some background material on archeological
sites in conjunction with the Maryland Historical Trust and begin the process
of bringing archeological review into the Planning and Zoning process before
development, which would be a major victory for our
efforts on behalf of local archeology! Beginning this year, the
City intends to develop an archeology program to help in the identification,
evaluation, and protection of archeological sites in the city and to develop
public education tools that will help explain the significance of
archeological sites. A professionally qualified archeologist
(consulting) will be hired to accomplish the following:
1/28/04
- Read
about Jack's testimony to the Mayor and Board of Aldermen in Annapolis,
Maryland: A
city crew, working atop an old cemetery without clearance from a key citizens'
board, found fragments of a centuries-old juvenile human tibia and another,
unidentified bone...Washington Post January 24, 2004
(links expired without registered login and/or paid subscription) National
News from NPS:
In 2002, the National Park Service recorded nearly 11,000 violations of the
Archaeological Resources Protection Act, which prohibits people from
destroying or removing rare or valuable objects found on federal land,
according to Park Service spokesman Al Nash...Baltimore Sun January 25, 2004
(links expired without registered login and/or paid subscription) The soon to
be published Rosenstock site report will be an
event that we will seek press attention for and may bring into an article in
Catoctin History magazine. The Frederick
City airport will be clear cutting over the Rosenstock
site this Spring, and continuing plans to annex land, buy airport adjacent
properties and further improve the airport threaten Native American sites. We have
proposed another Focus on Recent
Struggles to Support the Frederick County Archeological Recommendations by
the CZRC Committee before the County Commissioners...The rewrite of the
zoning recommendations representing a threat to our proposal, members have
undertaken an email and letter writing campaign to the County
Commissioners. Here are some examples: 2003 Archive: Read about it: In And be sure to
check out the New Members Notes
Section of the Website! Our taping for
"Focus on Read the Frederick
County Citizen's Zoning Review Committee (CZRC) Position Paper on Environmental Regulations,
which includes a MAS sponsored and driven approval of efforts to include
archeological review in the County Planning and Zoning process. At the Winslow
site field study, Cable 10 came to tape an hour long program on
our activities at the site on May 30th. Thankfully it was a sunny day
after all, but we had three trucks stuck in the mud getting us into the site
and the trucks out! But we got good interviews with Dr Dent, Dennis
Curry and Charlie Hall from the Maryland Historical Trust, Spencer and Nancy Geasey and Barry Phelps from the Chapter, and George
Evans, our Treasurer. Local folks will see local folks getting involved
in archaeology, and how they can join in...! Be sure to look for the
"On Location " show about mid July! 7/2/03 - The film on the ASM dig at the
Winslow site for 2003 will be repeated over the next couple weeks. It
will be one of the shows they title "On Location": Late June, MAS members
will go to 6/25/03 - Word has it that Past News and
Updates... Thursday May 8th, a
subset of the MAS, the Coalition for Frederick Archaeology, went before the
Frederick County Citizen's Zoning Review Committee (CZRC) and asked for a
positive recommendation to include archaeological review early on in the
planning and zoning process. Charlie Hall, State Terrestrial
Archeologist, and Wayne Clark, Office of Museum Services, Maryland Historical
Trust, spoke in favor of our effort, along with Spencer Geasey,
a local member and avocational archaeologist for
over fifty-five years. We received a positive recommendation! Now we hear that The
Mayor and Board of Aldermen in Frederick City will be reviewing their
Historic Preservation plan and that archaeology has been included in the
language...we'll be there June 18th to follow the discussion and offer
comments and encouragement as needed. Update
- This revision of the City Historic Preservation plan is only at first
reading before the Mayor and Board of Aldermen, however, it looks promising
for further implementation of Section 66-B of State law, to include a
provision allowing the HDC to recommend areas and specific sites outside the
current Historic District be protected as well. See
the updated language for the plan here! "Mr. Jack Lynch,
member of the NAC (Neighborhood Advisory Council) said that he had been
working some time with a Coalition of State Interests to support
Archeological Review in Frederick City and County, and that he is glad to see
the language strengthened and glad to see the powers given to the Mayor and
Board of Aldermen to designate the boundaries outside the Historic
District...we support and approve that. It is the first step to further
steps that should be taken in Planning and Zoning for archeological
protections. Mr. Lynch suggested that the City work with the County to
do some of these things. " See the Minutes of
this meeting here: Thursday May 22nd on
local Cable Channel 10 show 'Focus on |
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