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County planner outlines Lexington Park master-plan goals: town center, design standards, trails and traffic solutions
Summary
Derek Delaj, the county’s director of Land Use and Growth Management, presented a vision for the Lexington Park development district that calls for concentrating future growth into a compact center, raising design standards, adding pocket parks and improving pedestrian and trail connections.
Derek Delaj, director of Land Use and Growth Management for St. Mary's County, told the Recreation and Parks Board on Dec. 2 that the Lexington Park development-district master plan will steer most future growth into designated growth areas while protecting rural land elsewhere.
"A land use master plan is a document adopted eventually by the Board of County Commissioners that becomes the policy of the county," Delaj said, adding that the plan aims to guide private and public development, including parks and recreation facilities. He told the board the countywide comprehensive plan projects population growth from about 100,000 to 150,000 over 20 years — a roughly 50 percent increase — and said…
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