All right, we're gonna get started.

The November 12th, 2025 work session of the Ana Rondo County Council is called to order.

Please ensure all electronic devices are in silent mode.

Do any of my colleagues have any questions before we begin?

No.

All right.

First bill up is bill number 8725.

Odenton Town Master Plan.

Mr.

Hunt.

Uh thank you, Madam Chair.

Ethan Hunt for the administration.

Um Mark Wildonger, our senior planner from the Office of Planning and Zoning, and Kelly Kenny, our supervising county attorney from the Office of Law are at the table with me.

Um so this bill was introduced at our request on behalf of OPZ, and it seeks to amend the Odenton Town Center Master Plan to provide more up-to-date and accurate information in order to guide the region five comprehensive zoning process, which will be undertaking early next year.

Um legislation adds text for more accurate future zoning considerations and adds parcels within the Odenton Town Center boundary.

And I'm gonna turn it over to Mark Will Domer just to talk a little bit about the

the need for this.

Okay.

Good morning.

Um so again, during the Odenton Town Center Master Plan process, and again, the plan was adopted in February of 2024.

Uh, the county was not permitted to rezone properties.

Uh the code states that rezoning must occur during the region plan process.

Nonetheless, uh during the Odenton Town Center Advisory Committee meetings and the office planning and zoning, uh, we included a section in the master plan outlining a vision of what should be rezoned to help inform this region five master planning process that'll uh come before council in early 2026.

Um so given that the OTC is in region five, now is the time to revisit the OTC master plan zoning recommendations.

Uh so when reviewing the recommendations to office planning and zoning, recognize that some of the items may not apply due to recent developments, and then that that and that there is a need to provide some more specificity to the recommendations.

So the next two slides uh will just uh just explore the existing or the adopted master plan pages that will be recommended to be adopted, as well as or sorry, the existing and then the proposed master plan language.

Uh the Odenton Town Center Advisory Committee supported the proposed changes on August 26th, and the PAB supported the proposed changes on September 17th.

So

again, these are the two pages, pages 20 and 29 of the adopted Odenton Town Center Master Plan.

In the first few paragraphs there at the top of the page, uh you'll see that it recommends splitting the core OTC-C or Odenton Core zoning districts and converting the historic village mix overlay block to a typical zoning district.

So not having it be an overlay, but rather it becomes sort of I call it say flat zoning district.

Um the bullet points then also make vague recommendations on the other properties that that are to be recommended for a rezoning during the region five process.

And uh advancing here to um the draft language.

We've now specified where those properties are with addresses or tax account numbers, and we've also then uh maintained the language to not split uh the OTC core and the historic village mix because they are working as intended, and there have been recent developments from uh specific projects within uh the area that would make us recommend now uh just keeping the OTC-C or core uh as is.

Um we've also made a couple recommendations based on updated county policy for the current comprehensive zoning process.

For example, uh removing the any slivers of zoning and adding a open space zoning district.

That's why you see some of these um speckled green areas then within that

that map.

So for example, uh there's a property on the northeast corner of Southington Station Circle.

We've we've communicated with that property owner, they are interested in in being pulled into the Odenton Town Center, being zoned Odenton Town Center East.

Um we have uh received zoning applications for a property on Odenton Road where there was a historic structure.

That historic structure is now gone, so we're recommending that we change their zoning to an OTC-T or transition.

We've worked with the property owner at 1405 Odenton, uh otherwise known as the first.

Okay, we are back, and now we will move on to bill number 8925.

Um 8825.

Sorry, I skipped one.

Um the capital budget, Mr.

Hunt.

Uh thank you, Madam Chair.

Ethan Hunt with me at the table is Kelly Kenny, our supervising county attorney, and I have Naomi McAllister, our senior capital budget analyst from the budget office, and Kyle Roof, our executive director of facilities from Anne Rundle County Public Schools.

Bill 8825 proposes amendments to the capital budget for fiscal year 2026.

Uh specifically, it transfers appropriations of 3.3 million dollars in general county bond funds from the Board of Education Additions Project to the Board of Education All Day Pre-K and Pre-K project.

It also makes supplementary appropriations in the amount of $7,488,000 in interagency committee grant funds to the Board of Education Building Systems Renovation Project, $216,000 in miscellaneous funds to the Board of Ed Building Maintenance Backlog Project and $4,800,958 in other state grants and $1,323,758 in miscellaneous funds for Board of Education Sustainability and Initiatives, which is a total increase of $6,124,716.

The source of those miscellaneous funds is the utility rebate program.

And I'm sure Mr.

Roof or Miss McAllister can answer any questions, provide more details if you would like.

So

any questions?

They came all the way down here.

We've got it, we need to ask them something.