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Frederick County planning commission recommends Madison 277 rezoning with proffers after weeks of public opposition
Summary
After extensive public comment raising lake, traffic and school concerns, the Frederick County Planning Commission voted to recommend rezoning 149 acres known as Madison 277 from RA to R‑4 with revised proffers that reduce housing, add buffers, phase build‑out and require intersection improvements; the item will go to the Board of Supervisors Feb. 11.
The Frederick County Planning Commission voted Jan. 21 to recommend the rezoning of a 149‑acre parcel known as Madison 277 from RA (rural area) to R‑4 (residential planned community), forwarding the item and revised proffers to the Board of Supervisors on Feb. 11.
Staff told the commission the applicant reduced the residential total from earlier proposals (about 866 units) to 596 units, split a 30‑acre commercial Land Bay 1 into two pieces with 1B restricting roughly 50% of that acreage to medical uses, removed age‑restricted multifamily from Land Bay 1, added a 25‑foot mature woodlands buffer where the site abuts Lake Frederick, and committed to construct warranted intersection improvements at Hudson Hollow/White Oak/Route 277 per the project’s traffic impact analysis (TIA). Mr. Klein, staff, summarized the changes and said the revised proffers “fully commit to the implementation of improvements that would be required by [the] signal…
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