Planning commission keeps Lexington Park boundary, directs map corrections after boundary adjustment

At its April 24 meeting, the St. Mary's County Planning Commission reviewed proposed corrections to the Lexington Park Development District Master Plan maps and directed staff to leave one boundary unchanged and to change another map line to include an adjusted parcel around Cecil's Mill in the district.

The discussion centered on two specific map items from the commission's earlier review. The commission instructed staff to keep the boundary shown near Route 5 and Hermanville Road as drawn — the commission “will leave this yellow border as it is,” a commissioner said during the meeting. For a separate parcel (item 10 on the map) that had been combined by a 2016 boundary line adjustment, the commission directed staff to change the red line on the working map to yellow so the consolidated parcel would be inside the Lexington Park development district.

Bill Hunt, interim director for Land Use and Growth Management, framed the agenda items and explained the mapping work: the department and the county's information office have been collaborating to “redo” the maps and snap land‑use layers to parcel boundaries.

Bob Kelly, St. Mary's County chief information officer, demonstrated the map layers and said staff had identified two areas…