EASTON, MARYLAND — The County Council will hold a public hearing Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2026, at 5:30 p.m. on three resolutions that would give county land — for no payment — to the State Highway Administration, the Town of Easton and Shore Health System to support access to the new Regional Medical Center and a road into the town’s planned Woodland Park.

Resolution No. 399 would convey about 4.195 acres to the State of Maryland for the State Highway Administration, plus about 0.369 acre and 0.909 acre for revertible slope easements, from parcels on Tax Map 17. The resolution’s recitals say the transfer facilitates access to the new Regional Medical Center next to the Community Center; in exchange, Shore Health System builds a new Community Center entrance. An attached deed draft identifies the highway work as Relocated Longwoods Road (MD Route 662C).

Resolution No. 400 would convey Lot 6 (about 1.000 acre) to the Town of Easton for an elevated water storage tank and Lot 7 (about 1.253 acres) to Shore Health System for consolidation with Lot 1 it already owns — both transfers to facilitate the medical center.

Resolution No. 401 would convey about 1.785 acres from the county’s Poplar Hill Farm on Oxford Road (part of a larger about 120.476-acre Tax Map 42, Parcel 57) to Easton for a public access road from Maryland Route 322 to the town’s Woodland Park under an Aug. 4, 2026, memorandum of understanding. The MOU calls for the eventual transfer contract to require the town to build the road at its own cost, with utility stub-outs, and to pay for a required lot-line revision; the MOU itself is non-binding, and neither council is obligated to approve the transfer. The MOU also contemplates a possible cost-shared traffic signal at Tristan Drive and MD 322.

All three resolutions state no monetary consideration. Sponsors are Council members Haythe, Lesher, Mielke, and Stepp. The hearing is set for the Bradley Meeting Room, South Wing, Talbot County Courthouse, 11 N. Washington St., Easton.