Frederick Health Village master plan: applicants outline mixed‑use vision and seek conditional‑use approvals; commission schedules detailed review

Frederick Health and its development team presented a master‑plan application for the former State Farm campus that would convert about 93.2 acres into a mixed‑use “Frederick Health Village” including medical campus uses, complementary commercial services, and new housing. The plan described up to 750 multifamily/townhouse units and up to 1,260,000 square feet of nonresidential uses; the applicant requested mixed‑use conditional uses for health‑adjacent uses (senior living/retirement facility, nursing care, certain adult‑care uses and a medical laboratory) and requested modifications to several standard engineering detail standards and lot‑frontage rules.

Why it matters: The project proposes a large, long‑term transformation of a prominent campus in southwest Frederick that would add housing and health‑adjacent services and reconfigure parkland and trail connections; the proposal is at the master‑plan stage, the first of two public hearings.

What the applicant proposed Attorney Bruce Dean (lead for the applicant) and the project team described a village concept that retains an integrated Frederick Health presence and introduces new residential…