Planning Commission introduces ordinance to implement Lexington Park rezoning and schedules public hearings

St. Mary's County Planning Commission members heard a staff introduction to an ordinance intended to implement the Lexington Park Development District plan and to insert Navy compatibility tables and a noise map into the county's comprehensive zoning ordinance. Planning staff presented an implementation schedule that would lead to a public hearing on June 27 and transmission to the Board of County Commissioners in late August.

The introduction explained that the 2015 Lexington Park plan divides the development district into subareas — north, central and south — and identified a central focus area where staff and the consultant recommended more-detailed mixed-use, limited commercial-industrial and neighborhood design guidance. Phil Shire, a county planning staff member, told commissioners the draft maps replace the existing DMX (downtown mixed-use) and CC (community commercial) categories with a mixed-use regime and a limited commercial-industrial classification to…