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Commissioners debate splitting Lexington Park Development District; Navy airspace and existing grants complicate options
Summary
Planning commissioners discussed residents’ requests to split the Lexington Park Development District into northern and southern subareas. Staff warned grant-funded implementation work and upcoming Navy AQ (airspace/noise) changes mean any change needs careful review and coordination with the base and the LPDD master plan.
Members of the Planning Commission spent a large portion of the Jan. 17 work session examining calls from residents to divide the Lexington Park Development District (LPDD) into subareas.
"Lexington Park is gonna be more geared towards redevelopment, and we need to have incentives to encourage developers to go down there," said Cindy Greb, director of the county’s Department of Economic Development, describing constraints near Patuxent River Naval Base such as noise contours and existing development. She contrasted that with Northern Lexington Park, which she said "has a lot more flexibility with a lot more…
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