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Frank A. Jaklitsch, 67, who served a Calvert County’s director of the Department of Planning and Zoning for nearly three decades, has died, a local funeral home reported.

According to the Lee Funeral Home in Owings, Jaklitsch died March 16.

The native New Yorker and U.S. Army veteran retired in 2005 after 28 years of directing the commercial and residential growth in Calvert. During much of that time Calvert was the fastest growing county, percentagewise, in Maryland.

Jaklitsch received a national award for Outstanding Planner in 1985 and was Maryland’s Planner of the Year in 1989. He is survived by his wife, Diane, two children, three grandchildren, his mother, a brother and a sister.

Visitation will be held at Lee Funeral Home in Owings Sunday, March 18 from 4 to 6 p.m. and a service of remembrance will be held Monday, March 19 at Jefferson Patterson Park in St. Leonard starting at 3 p.m.

Contact Marty Madden at marty.madden@thebaynet.com