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Owings Town Center rezoning proposal would allow expanded gas station and site improvements
Summary
Planning staff presented a zoning map amendment request to rezone two parcels adjacent to Owings Town Center to Town Center Core, enabling the redevelopment of an existing nonconforming filling station with modernized site and safety improvements; staff will proceed to public adoption steps.
Planning staff presented a zoning map amendment application to reclassify two parcels at the intersection of Old Solomons Island Road and MD‑260 into the Owings Town Center Core district so the existing nonconforming automobile filling station can be redeveloped. Planner Will Hager described the package as an opportunity to "enable the installation of modern and improved landscaping, lighting, and stormwater management facilities, an upgraded septic system, better on‑site circulation, safer entrances, and other aesthetic improvements." The application would bring two parcels—136 and 150 East Chesapeake Beach Road—into conformance if the rezoning is approved.
Commissioners discussed precedence and the process for expanding town center boundaries, and planning staff said the map amendment process typically takes six to eight months while the Owings Town Center master plan and ordinance update will be a broader and longer effort. No vote was taken at the work session; staff will post the site and proceed through the normal public‑notice and public‑hearing steps required for a map amendment.
