Title
A RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE BOWIE-MITCHELLVILLE AND VICINITY MASTER PLANS for the purpose of approving, with certain revisions herein that are based on the joint public hearing record of testimony, as an Act of the County Council of Prince George’s County, sitting as the District Council for that part of the Maryland-Washington Regional District in Prince George’s County, the Bowie-Mitchellville and Vicinity Master Plan, approving therein a new vision to guide future growth and redevelopment for Planning Areas 71A (Bowie and Vicinity), 71B (City of Bowie), 74A (Mitchellville and Vicinity), and 74B (Collington and Vicinity); an area generally defined by the Patuxent Research Refuge to the north, MD 193 (Enterprise Road/Watkins Park Drive) to the west, Leeland Road/Queen Anne Road to the south, and the Patuxent River to the east, including the entire City of Bowie and the portions of the unincorporated communities of Mitchellville and Collington. The Master Plan includes the Plan Prince George’s 2035 (Plan 2035)-designated Bowie Local Town Center and Bowie State University MARC Campus Center, Old Town Bowie, the Collington Local Employment Area, and the MD 450, MD 197, and US 301/MD 3 corridors.
Background
This Resolution will approve the Bowie-Mitchellville and Vicinity Master Plan, as an Act of the District Council, with certain revisions, as permitted expressly by law as set forth in Section 27-646(c)(1)(B) of the County Zoning Ordinance. It was drafted at the direction of the Council sitting as the Committee of the Whole, on February 17, 2022, after conducting two duly-advertised public work sessions to review the transcript analysis, staff digest of testimony, and Planning Board action on the proposed master plan on January 25 and February 17, respectively.
Based on the discussions during the work sessions concerning the testimony and analyses within the public record, the direction of the Committee included preparation of certain revisions to the tex...
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