In 2019, the owners of Bowie’s Freeway Airport in Prince George’s County won a controversial vote at the county council level that rezoned the land it sits on to allow for much greater density.
Similar to the neighborhoods it sits near, currently it’s zoned to allow one house for every two acres of land. The zoning change would have allowed 10 times as much density. Developers were planning to build more than 500 new town homes on the site, to go with over 100 single family homes. But now those plans are on hold.
Maryland’s Court of Special Appeals, the second highest court in the state, has overturned lower court decisions that allowed the rezoning to go forward, saying it “unlawfully violates the uniformity requirement, and therefore is illegal and unenforceable.”
For Milly Hall, who leads the group Concerned Citizens of PG County District 4 and The Surrounding Area, it brings a lot of satisfaction.
Click here to read the rest of the article written by John Domen over at WTOP
