Prince George's examiner continues Oak Creek Club basic plan hearing after applicants seek higher unit caps, removal of church and day-care sites

On Jan. 29, 2025, the Prince George's County Zoning Hearing Examiner continued a hearing on three conjoined basic-plan amendment applications affecting the Oak Creek Club subdivision after Carrollton Oak Creek LLC sought changes that would raise unit caps in two prior base zones and remove a planned church and day-care designation.

The applications ask the District Council to amend Condition 1 of Zoning Ordinance 11-2000 to raise the maximum permitted dwelling-unit caps from 1,096 to 1,108 in the prior RL zone and from 52 to 76 in the prior LAC zone; the applicant said the cap increases total 36 additional units but proffered to build 28 units. The property at issue is roughly 8.09 acres made up of Parcel B and Tax Parcel 3 within Oak Creek Club and is addressed in the application as 800 South Church Road.

The request matters because it would change permitted residential density for a section of an existing, largely built-out subdivision and would remove the church/day-care designation shown on the approved basic plan map. Neighbors and the hearing examiner pressed the applicant for clearer maps and documentation showing which portions of the larger Oak Creek basic plan remain undeveloped and where any nonresidential development could still occur. The examiner left the record open for additional exhibits…