Queen Anne's County Commissioner District 4
ABOUT THE OFFICE: There are five County Commissioners, four of whom are elected at large, with one residing in each of the four County Commissioner Districts of the county. The fifth, also elected at large, holds the position of President of the County Commissioners for the first year of his or her term and may reside in any area of the county. Following the first year of their term the County Commissioners annually, by majority vote, select one Commissioner to serve as President of the County Commissioners.TERM: Four years, with no term limitsSALARY: $25,000How Elected: Select one candidate from at-large and each district, for a total of 5.
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Chris Corchiarino
(Rep)
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND RURAL CHARACTER:Where should growth be encouraged in Queen Anne’s County, and where should it be limited? What guardrails would you insist on in zoning and development approvals to protect rural character?
FISCAL PRIORITIES AND BUDGETING: What are your top three fiscal priorities for the county in 2026? Please list them in order.
ENVIRONMENT, LAND USE & INFRASTRUCTURE: What specific policies would you support to improve Chesapeake Bay waterway health, preserve agricultural land, and manage roads and traffic congestion as Queen Anne’s County grows?
HOUSING AND COST OF LIVING: What is your plan to increase workforce housing in the county? Please name at least one concrete action you would take.
TRANSPORTATION AND COMMUNITY CONNECTIVITY: What is your plan to better connect where people live, where children go to school, and where people work? Include how you would improve or support reliable public transportation.
"Stop overdevelopment" is a bumper sticker, not a plan. State law requires growth to be directed to certain areas. Kent Island-Grasonville grows because it's the only unincorporated area in the county with a wastewater plant. Commissioners can manage growth — they cannot stop it. Candidates promising otherwise are uninformed or lying to you. Before you vote, watch the April 2025 development town hall at QAC-TV. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-BzjJbodK4
Maryland faces a $3 billion deficit. Annapolis' fix: shift costs to QA while cutting revenue sharing. Despite that, QA Commissioners earned a triple AAA bond rating, increased education funding, built parks and improved services — without raising taxes. Other counties couldn't. That's not luck. That's experience. Any candidate promising tax cuts without explaining how has never balanced a budget. Don't risk new taxes by hiring someone selling empty promises.
QA Commissioners have a record that leads. 90K acres of farmland preserved—#1 in Md. Bay nitrogen discharge cut by 22,000 lbs/year. Rts 50, 301, 18, and the Bay Bridge are State roads—not Commissioner controlled. Over 25M cars cross the Bay Bridge yearly and Rt 301 traffic is up 30% since 2019 from out-of-county traffic. In March Rt 8 to Grasonville is a 15 minute drive--July, an hour. That's beach traffic, not locals. Candidates promising to "fix traffic" won't tell you how—because they can't.
Affordability isn't just a housing problem — it's an everything problem—low wages, high electric, and debt until the math breaks. No housing program fixes that.
At the county level: housing supply is constrained (because less development), but demand is high. So prices rise.
The options: build more to lower prices, subsidize development (most do not want either option) or build in towns where infrastructure exists. Town boundaries are governed by Town Councils, not Commissioners.
In rural America, a car isn't a policy choice — it's a fact of life. To reduce the driving burden, the Commissioners have improved access to local jobs, shopping, and health care — including funding for a new hospital. For kids, bike and pedestrian trails have been extended, with a proposed Rt 50 crossing linking the Cross Island and South Island Trails to bike to school, library and rec center. For seniors, Commissioners made County Ride free since 2023.
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