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Environmental Justice Study - Community Questionnaire

The Anne Arundel County Office of Planning and Zoning (OPZ) wants to hear from community members about impacts you believe your community faces from industrial land uses. OPZ also wants to understand community members’ concerns about their environment and what you believe will improve the health of your community in the future.

OPZ will use your feedback to inform an Environmental Justice study. This study will investigate the location of industrial land uses to determine whether low-income communities and communities of color experience disproportionate impacts from these land uses. The findings of the study will be used to inform future land use policies, plans, and decisions to minimize future community health impacts. This study implements a strategy from the County’s General Development Plan, Plan2040, that supports improving quality of life for the County’s vulnerable populations.

This questionnaire closes at 11:59 p.m. on September 7, 2026. Limit to one submission per person. It takes an average of 5 minutes to complete all responses.
Note: This questionnaire is voluntary and meant to gather information from community members about environmental pollution in the County. Your decision to respond or not respond to questions will not affect any services to which you are entitled to receive from the County.
1.Check the items in the list below that you believe occur in your community. Select all that apply.
2.Why are you concerned about the items you checked in Question 1?
3.What are the highest priority areas where you would like to see improvement? Please choose up to three.(Required.)
4.Have you talked to local, state, or federal agencies about these issues?
5.Are there challenges when you try to talk to government agencies?
6.How long have you lived in your community?
7.Since you moved into your neighborhood, have industrial land uses started, ended, or changed near your home? Please share any information you want OPZ to understand about how industrial land use has changed in your community.
8.Please share your residential zip code.(Required.)
9.Please provide your email below if you would like to receive email updates from the OPZ about the environmental justice study and other topics impacting your community.