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In July 1981, the Prince George’s County Council, in cooperation with the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission, approved the Prince George’s County Historic Sites and Districts Plan, a master plan for _he County’s preservation program. In November that year, the County Council also enacted a preservation ordinal Subtitle 29 of the County Code, which established a Historic Preservation Commission (HPC) with the power to: Evaluate historic properties for designation as Historic Sites or Historic Districts; review plans for exterior alteration, demolition, or new construction; and approve property tax credits appropriate renovation of historic structures and for compa1 new construction in historic districts. In addition, the nine-member Commission reviews any legislation, zoning map amendments or other land-use proposals affecting historic resources; assists property owners planning exterior alterations historic buildings; and maintains an ongoing survey and research program. members of the Commission are appointed by the County Executive and must be knowledgeable in such areas as architecture, planning, real estate economics, and historic preservation. The Historic Preservation Commission is also empowered to appoint members to local advisory committees “to assist and advise the Commission in the performance of its functions.”

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Broad Creek Historic District Design Guidelines October 1987 As Revised May 10 1988

This report summarizes the findings of an historical/ architectural survey of Brentwood, requested by the Mayor and Council of the Town. The goals of the project were to document the earliest of the historic buildings still standing in the Town, and to prepare a written history of the community’s development with emphasis on the early residents. The Town of Brentwood is located in Prince George’s County, just outside the northeast boundary of the District of Columbia. Development of the community began in the 1890s in areas platted by the Holladay and Brentwood Companies. The first residents were families attracted to the area by the easily accessible transportation to and from work in Washington, D. c., offered by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and the City and Suburban streetcar line. The residents of this community incorporated in 1922 as the Town of Brentwood. The report is divided into seven major sections: Pre-Subdivision History, The First Subdivision, The Second Subdivision, Growth and Development of the two Subdivisions, Continued Development, The Development of Community Institutions, and the Period of Incorporation. The report includes background history on the earliest development of the community, and on Captain Wallace A. Bartlett, the principal figure in the development of the first two subdivisions. It describes the expansion of the original subdivision, and the settling of the first families in the newly built homes. It describes and compares the first dwellings erected in the community; it analyzes by building type a representative group of dwellings which survive from the first building period. The report also outlines the establishment of community institutions such as school, church, citizens’ association and firemen’s organization, and describes the community’s development as it approached incorporation in 1922. The report is supplemented by photographs, plats and maps.

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Historical Survey Brentwood_Maryland_October 1992

This study concerns revitalization of an older community in southern Prince George’s County, located between rapidly developing areas adjacent to MD 5/US 301, and the county’s designated Rural Tier. The Brandywine Revitalization and Preservation study area straddles both the Subregion 5 and Subregion 6 master plans, approved in 2009, and responds to recommendations in those plans that a planning study focus on revitalization in this community. While this older Brandywine community has attributes of a small town and a cluster of historic resources, it lacks other characteristics that would distinguish it as such. The threat is that without a definition of the desired community character and strategies for achieving it, new development, when it arrives in old Brandywine, will subsume it into the suburban fabric of the greater community. The strategies and illustrations in this study are intended to be used as an action plan for community stakeholders to improve the look and function of the public realm, focusing on improving the Brandywine Road streetscape, pedestrian circulation and safety.

The Bi-County Transitway International Corridor Planning Study is a preliminary evaluation of the social, physical and economic development potential provided by the Bi-County Transitway (formerly Purple Line) in the International Corridor. The International Corridor is an area approximately one-half mile deep along University Boulevard (MD 193) from West Park Drive to the border with Montgomery County and Takoma Park. The planning study provides a demographic profile of the Corridor and summarizes a number of earlier studies and projects undertaken for this area. It provides an initial evaluation of the transit-oriented development (TOD) potential of three nodes and assesses the Corridor’s economic and physical characteristics opportunities and challenges. The study recommends the next planning actions that should be considered to advance General Plan goals for this area of Prince George’s County.

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Abstract Acknowledgments Bi-County Transitway Study Comm-9-2003 Council-12-02

This document contains text and maps of the Approved Sector Plan and Sectional Map Amendment for Westphalia. The approved plan amends portions of the 1994 Approved Master Plan and Sectional Map Amendment for Melwood-Westphalia (Planning Area 77 & 78), and the 2002 Prince George’s County Approved General Plan. Developed with the assistance of several stakeholders, this document presents background, recommends a vision, and furthers the goals, policies, and strategies pertaining to land use, zoning, environment, parks and recreation, transportation, trails, public facilities, historic preservation, and urban design. The sectional map amendment adopts zoning changes to implement the sector plan’s recommendations.

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Part 1 Foreword, Introduction and Background Part 2 Development Pattern Element Part 3 Infrastructure Element Part 4 Community Character Element Part 5 Implementation Part 6 Appendices

This report contains the text of the Approved Water Resources Functional Master Plan (Water Resources Plan). It amends Prince George’s County’s 2002 General Plan. The Water Resources Plan provides information relating to county water and sewer service capacity relative to planned growth to 2030, summarizes and provides a technical model to estimate the nutrient loadings on watersheds from existing and future conditions, and identifies the policies and strategies to amend the General Plan that are needed to maintain adequate drinking water supply and wastewater treatment capacity to 2030 and to meet water quality regulatory requirements as the county continues to grow. It satisfies the requirements of MD House Bill 1141.

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Water Resources Master Plan

This document contains text and maps of the Approved Transit District Development Plan and Transit District Overlay Zoning Map Amendment for the West Hyattsville Transit District Overlay Zone. This plan will amend the 1998 West Hyattsville Approved Transit District Development Plan for the Transit District Overlay Zone and portions of the 1994 Planning Area 68 Master Plan. Developed by the Commission with the assistance of the community, this plan contains a comprehensive development vision, development review process requirements, and form-based development standards and guidelines. Together, these elements comprise the amended West Hyattsville Transit District Development Plan (TDDP). It controls and guides the use and development of all land within the amended Transit District Overlay Zone (TDOZ) from the initial submittal of plans to the issuance of permits. Together, the TDOZ and TDDP are intended to foster transit-oriented development that increases the use of public transit, maximizes return on investment in transit facilities and services, encourages appropriate development near transit stations with coordinated urban design elements, and increases local tax revenues.

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01 Cover and Front Matter 02 Introduction - Purpose-Background-Legal Context for the Plan-Transportation Demand Management-Amendment Procedures 03 Vision - TOD in the West Hyattsville TDOZ-Vision Statement-Plan Elements 04 Transit District Development Plan 05 Building Envelope 06 Streetscape Standard 07 Architecture Standards 08 Parking Standards 09 Appendix A 10 Appendix B

This document is the Approved Sector Plan for the Takoma/Langley Crossroads area. The sector plan portions of the 1989 Approved Master Plan for Langley Park-College Park-Greenbelt and Vicinity (Planning Area 65). Developed with the assistance of the community, property owners, residents and elected officials, this document recommend goals, policies, strategies, and actions pertaining to development patterns, environmental infrastructure, transportation systems, public faculties, parks and recreation, economic development and urban design.

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TLC Approved Book

This development plan includes a design review process and standards to establish a framework for business and property owners, tenants, residents, County officials and staff to review planned new development or redevelopment within the Mixed- Use Town Center Zone. This rezoning effort is intended to foster redevelopment and revitalization to create a town center in Suitland that will include the County’s Suitland Manor redevelopment project. It will also implement the county’s 2002 General Plan Regional Center recommendation for this area that includes the Suitland Metro Station. The Mixed-Use Town Center Zone stipulates that regulations concerning the location, size and other provisions for all buildings and structures in the zone are as provided in an approved town center development plan. This document provides the following: a brief introduction and historical overview; overall development and design concepts; a specific long-range development concept that proposes areas for mixed-use and residential development with new and improved public spaces; specific design principles and standards to guide development necessary to create a town center; description of the local design review and special permit processes; inventory of existing uses and street right-of-way widths; the permitted uses and special permit process in the M-U-TC Zone; and recommended plant species.

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Approved Suitland Mixed-Use Town Center Development Plan

The Approved Subregion 6 Master Plan and Sectional Map Amendment comprises text, maps, illustrations and pictures. The plan amends portions of the 1993 Approved Subregion VI Study Area Master Plan and Sectional Map Amendment (Planning Areas 79, 82A, 82B, 86A, 86B, 87A and 87B); 1994 Approved Melwood and Westphalia Master Plan and Sectional Map Amendment (Planning Areas 77 and 78) and Planning Area 85B in the 1993 Approved Subregion V Master Plan and Sectional Map Amendment. Developed with broad public participation, this document presents background information, and goals, strategies, and actions pertaining to land use, zoning, rural preservation, environment, parks and recreation, transportation, trails, public facilities, historic preservation. The Sectional Map Amendment (SMA) includes zoning changes to implement the master plan’s recommendations.

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01 Cover Page and Table of Content 02 Introduction and Background 03 Subregion Analysis 04 Development Pattern and Land Use 05 Environment 06 Transportation Systems 07 Public Facilities 08 Economic Development 09 Historic and Cultural Resources 10 Living Areas and Community Character 11 Sectional Map Amendment 12 Appendix Minor Plan Amendment