Planners present Tyler Avenue overlay concept to expand housing options, improve streetscape

City of Annapolis planning staff presented analysis and early concepts for a Tyler Avenue Complete Community overlay district and asked the Planning Commission for feedback as the comprehensive rezoning effort moves through its first phase.

Eric Leshinski, chief of comprehensive planning, and Alexis Robinson, senior comprehensive planner, described the project’s intent: create an overlay district to enable a broader range of housing types, improve the public realm and streetscape, and better align zoning with the recently adopted Annapolis 2040 comprehensive plan. Robinson said the Tyler Avenue area has many long, deep, narrow lots and unusually low current density — staff measured roughly 2.28 housing units per acre across about 52 acres in the study area, substantially below the R2 zone’s theoretical capacity (staff cited R2 up to 8 units per acre as…