Board continues FDR Holdings site‑plan appeal after hearing on FDR Boulevard alignment and mapping

FDR Holdings LLC asked the St. Mary’s County Board of Appeals on Sept. 27 to overturn a Planning Commission decision that denied concept approval for a proposed office building at 21975 FDR Boulevard in Lexington Park. The Planning Commission had found the concept plan inconsistent with comprehensive‑plan and transportation‑plan guidance because a proposed FDR Boulevard alignment crosses the parcel; the Board of Appeals continued the appeal to Nov. 29, 2007, to allow both sides to supplement the record with transportation‑plan pages, survey exhibits and aerial photographs.

Attorney John Norris, representing FDR Holdings, told the board his clients had purchased the roughly 1.14‑acre parcel after reviewing public plans and budgets and that they proceeded with reconstruction permits and a concept plan for a 6,720‑square‑foot office building. He said the parcel is in the Downtown Core Mixed Use District (DMX) and in the Lexington Park Development District, an area the county’s comprehensive plan seeks to encourage for development. “The proposed development meets all the purposes, goals, [and] objectives of the zoning district and the planning district in which it’s located,”…