Prince George’s County is moving to embrace modern, transit-oriented development, but its zoning ordinance is a 1970s-era albatross. Now, a nearly decade-long effort to change that is reaching its end.
The county council hopes to put a lengthy zoning modernization process to bed in the coming months, advancing some technical changes in the fall that should create an entirely new set of development review standards. The process has faced a host of unexpected delays, but county leaders believe it should be done by early 2022.
That would wrap up proceedings that started in earnest in 2014 with a goal of making dense, parking-lite developments easier to build along the county’s transit corridors. The council streamlined its land-use policy in 2018, creating some new mixed-use zones and eliminating some outdated options, but landowners couldn’t take advantage until lawmakers conformed the existing zoning map to those changes. Hearings on this “countywide map amendment” will begin in September.
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