Work session on Lexington Park Development District focuses on Navy compatibility rules, 'Lexington Manor' land and downtown core

Staff presented a broad work session on the Lexington Park Development District on Jan. 27 that centered on Air Installation Compatible Use guidance for the Patuxent River Naval Air Station, draft compatibility tables, noise and Accident Potential Zone (APZ) mapping, proposed water-and-sewer phasing language and the future of the northern Lexington Manor parcel (the former "flat tops").

Jeff Jackman, county planning staff, walked commissioners through a multi-part workbook. The materials included the county’s current ACUS zoning language (Chapter 43), historical correspondence from Navy officers (including a 1995 letter from Captain Standridge), the 2007 encroachment-study recommendations and cooperation agreement between Navy staff and the Board of County Commissioners (ordinance Z-07-3), the Navy’s 2009 facility ACUS study, and the DoD/Service instructions that guided those studies (transcript references 11010.36c and a 2011 DO D update).

Jackman told the commission that the staff analysis used the 2009 facility study as the primary basis for the draft changes while the 2011 instruction update was being reviewed. "All…