Title
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE 2004 GATEWAY ARTS DISTRICT FOR PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY for the purpose of approving a minor amendment to the Gateway Arts Development District Table of Permitted Uses within the 2004 Sector Plan and Sectional Map Amendment for the Prince George's County Gateway Arts District.
Background
Sections 27-548.26 and 27-642 of the Zoning Ordinance of Prince George’s County provide a process for initiation and approval of minor amendments to approved comprehensive plans by the District Council. Accordingly, by way of its adoption of CR-089-2016 on November 14, 2016, the District Council directed initiation of certain minor amendments to the 2004 Sector Plan and Sectional Map Amendment for the Prince George’s County Gateway Arts District proposing an amendment to the 2004 Gateway Arts Development District Table of Permitted Uses to add two (2) uses, “Tattoo Parlor” and “Music Recording Studio,” that were not yet contemplated within the local zoning laws at the time the 2004 Gateway Arts Development District was approved by the District Council.
In accordance with the requirements of law, the District Council and Prince George’s County Planning Board conducted a duly advertised joint public hearing on February 7, 2017, in order to garner public comment and/or written testimony concerning the proposed minor amendments to the Gateway Arts development district. After the close of the joint public hearing record, the Planning Board reviewed the record testimony with hits staff and transmitted its comments and recommendations to the District Council on March 2, 2017, as prescribed by law.
Thereafter, on March 21, 2017, and as publicly advertised upon its published public meeting agenda, the County Council conducted a public work, convened as the Committee of the Whole, to review the record of public hearing testimony received at the February 7, 2017, joint public hearing on the proposed minor amendments. After presentations by the Planning Department and Council’s legal staff, as well as questions and other discussion from the committee members, the Committee of the Whole voted to direct staff to prepare this Resolution of Approval for the proposed minor amendments to the 2004 Sector Plan and Sectional Map Amendment for the Prince George’s County Gateway Arts District, as recommended within the resolution adopted by Planning Board via PGCPB No. 17-28.
Accordingly, this Resolution will approve, as final action by the District Council in accordance with prescriptions of local zoning laws, certain minor amendments to the 2004 Sector Plan and Sectional Map Amendment for the Prince George’s County Gateway Arts District