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Enroll in Zoning 101

Do the terms DSP, C-S-C, or ZHE confuse you? Do departures and variances get you down? Have no fear, the Zoning Rewrite Core Team is here! Watch our Zoning 101 tutorial to help you understand the significance and evolution of zoning in Prince George’s County. Hosted by the Prince George’s County Planning Department’s Associate General Counsel Debra Borden, Zoning 101 provides an overview of essential zoning concepts including: the difference between Planning and Zoning, the administration of zoning in the county, and the development review process. Pay close attention, there may be a pop quiz at the end.

https://youtu.be/_I4NL7CwBYg

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Share Your Thoughts: Attend the North County Listening Session

The Zoning Rewrite team and the Prince George’s County Planning Board value your input in the rewrite process. Join the team at our next community listening session on “Creating a 21st Century Zoning Ordinance for Prince George’s County” on:

Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Parks and Recreation Administration Building
6600 Kenilworth Avenue
Riverdale, MD 20737
6:00 to 8:00p.m.

Clarion Associates, the lead consultant, will discuss their evaluation and recommendations for how the county’s Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations should be restructured. The full “Evaluation and Recommendations Report” can be found online in the documents page (click here to download the Report).

The report contains Clarion’s review of the challenges with today’s regulations as identified by the residents, business and property owners, developers, elected officials, and other interested Prince Georgians; proposes comprehensive recommendations for revising the Prince George’s County Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations; and contains a proposed annotated outline for how the new Zoning Ordinance should be re-written.
For questions or feedback, contact a member of the Zoning Rewrite team at zoningpgc@ppd.mncppc.org

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Derick Berlage interviewed about Creating a 21st Century Zoning Ordinance for Prince George’s County.

On Tuesday, January 15, Derick Berlage, Chief of the Countywide Planning Division of the Prince George’s County Planning Department was interviewed by Sonia Srivastava of Prince George’s Community Television to discuss the Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations Rewrite. Watch the entire video below.

Video courtesy of Prince George’s Community Television.

“One of the most important things that local governments do is help to decide what kind of real estate happens, where it happens, and makes sure it happens in a way that maximize benefits for the community. One of the most important tools that we use to do this is our zoning ordinance, but [the Prince George’s County] zoning ordinance is more than half a century old and written in a time when the county was changing from farmland to suburbia. We’re a different county today.”

Community input is critical to creating a 21st century zoning ordinance for Prince George’s County. Visit the about page to learn more about the Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations rewrite.

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Welcome to the website for Prince George’s County’s Zoning Rewrite project!

The Prince George’s County Planning Department of The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission has begun a three-year effort to rewrite and update Prince George’s County’s Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations, thereby transforming the current zoning code to a more user-friendly, 21st century document.

Updating the current code is critical to enabling the County to carry out the vision laid out in the updated General Plan, “Plan Prince George’s 2035”. A modernized zoning ordinance will make regulations easier to understand and more user-friendly, support the type of quality development the county desires, and encourage economic growth. A fresh look at the current Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations is long overdue. Neither the ordinance nor the regulations have been updated in over 50 years. During that half -century, though, both have been amended numerous times in order to address specific and pressing planning and development needs and issues. These piecemeal amendments have resulted in an unwieldy 1,000 page document that is often described as confusing, inconsistent, difficult to use and which, in some instances, has presented a road block to the type of economic development that the County desires – development supporting economic growth and improved quality of life for County residents.

We invite you to join in this important project that will directly affect the future of Prince George’s County. Over the next three years, the Prince George’s County Planning department will work with citizens, residents, businesses, property owners, special interest groups and all other stakeholders to rewrite and reorganize the county’s zoning ordinance and subdivision regulations.

Help us to create a 21st century zoning ordinance by getting involved today! Tour this web site and learn the basics through our tutorial, “Zoning 101”. Provide comments and feedback on the current zoning ordinance. Review our draft work program. Sign up to receive emails on our progress. And, register to attend and share your thoughts at one of three public listening sessions scheduled to take place this January.

We look forward to hearing from and working with you on this most important project. Thank you for helping build a great future for Prince George’s County!!

Sincerely,
Elizabeth M. Hewlett, Chairman

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Zoning Ordinance Website has a new look

We are happy to announce the launch of our recently updated website and blog for the Zoning Ordinance and Subdivision Regulations rewrite. Our new website was crafted specifically to keep community members and project stakeholders connected throughout the rewrite process. Optimized with a responsive design, you can easily learn about the status of the comprehensive update on any device, be it a smartphone, a tablet, a laptop, or a large desktop display.

The most prominent feature of our new website is the incorporation of the modified Zoning Rewrite project logo. Borrowing themes from the Plan Prince George’s 2035 logo, our logo reflects the diversity of zones that can be found in the current Zoning Ordinance. Each of the colors in the logo correlates to a particular type of zone in the Prince George’s County Code-residential, industrial, commercial, open space, mixed-use, etc.

Visit our website frequently as we plan to post project reports, event announcements, regional zoning news, and other helpful resources to assist you in getting involved with the project.

In the meantime, follow us on Facebook, and Twitter. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to contact the core team at zoningpgc@ppd.mncppc.org.

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