Throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed, land use issues impacting clean water are omnipresent. These include positive impacts from properly-placed wind farms and solar fields, to negative impacts such as data centers, fossil fuel extraction, and pipelines. Collectively, land use decisions influence—for better or worse—public health, community development, environmental justice, local economies, wildlife conservation, and, of course, water quality.

Land Use Workgroup

Our goal is straightforward: Protect water resources from the significant landscape level impacts of land use decisions and extractive practices to support climate resilient communities and restore ecological harmony across the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Land Use Policy Priority is a natural evolution of our collective work, and the Coalition is looking forward to the energy that transformation brings.