When you think about commercial development, you might think about the restaurants, grocery stores or other venues you visit on a regular basis. But more often in Prince George’s County, Maryland, it has also meant self-storage complexes, to the frustration and dismay of too many residents.
Now, county-imposed limits are coming to make that less likely in the future.
The county council unanimously passed on Tuesday a bill that limits future storage facilities to industrial zones of the county. It comes after months of compromise and discussion that ultimately led to the grandfathering in of those facilities currently in the works.
Early opponents of the legislation argued that the reason you were seeing so many of those facilities pop up is that they’re in high demand, with only a few storage units sitting empty. Developers and storage unit owners had already invested time and money in building new ones in parts of the county too, so the new law won’t mean an immediate end of new storage units next to homes or some commercial developments.
Click here to read the rest of the article written by John Domen over at WTOP
