Legislation Details

Reference No. CB-043-2025    Draft No.
Type: Council Bill Status: Enacted
Meeting Body Planning, Housing and Economic Development Committee
Meeting Date 11/18/2025
Introduced Date 10/14/2025 Public Hearing Date 11/18/2025 @ 10:00 AM
Effective date: 1/5/2026    
Title: AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING USE REGULATIONS - PRINCIPAL USES - PERMITTED USES IN CGO ZONE for the purpose of amending the uses permitted in the Commercial, General and Office (CGO) Zone to encourage the conversion of existing office buildings into mixed-use developments.
Proposers/Sponsors: Thomas E. Dernoga, Krystal Oriadha, Calvin S. Hawkins
Code sections: 27-5101 - , 27-5102 -
Attachments: 1. CB-043-2025 - signed, 2. B2025043, 3. CB-043-2025 Summary, 4. CB-043-2025 Report, 5. LDR-63-2025 Planning Board Recommendation, 6. LDR-63-2025 Technical Staff Report, 7. LDR-63-2025 email_Transmittal of draft legislative amendment to the local zoning laws of the County LDR-63-2025, 8. LDR-63-2025 PGCPB Transmittal Pink Sheet
Contact: Eric Irving, Fiscal and Legislative Specialist

Title

AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING USE REGULATIONS - PRINCIPAL USES - PERMITTED USES IN CGO ZONE for the purpose of amending the uses permitted in the Commercial, General and Office (CGO) Zone to encourage the conversion of existing office buildings into mixed-use developments.

 

Background

This bill amends the principal use table to require special exception approval for certain residential developments in the Commercial, General and Office (CGO) Zone. The Zoning Ordinance currently permits five residential use types by right in the CGO Zone - townhouses, two-family dwellings, multifamily dwellings, live-work dwellings, and artists’ residential studios. This bill would require developments of each of these use types to seek special exception approval to locate in the CGO Zone. Multifamily, two-family, and townhouse dwellings that are part of a group of adjoining lots or parcels in the CGO Zone that comprise less than 20 acres would be permitted by the approval of a special exception.  If these dwellings comprise 20 acres or greater in size, the development would be permitted by approval of a Planned Development Zoning Map Amendment.