Good afternoon, everyone, and thank you for joining our streamlining development work group.

This is our second meeting.

Today's Wednesday, May 6th.

Um, just so that everyone knows as all of our work groups for the council, these meetings are open to the public.

They are recorded.

They'll also be posted and shared on our website, similar to any presentations or information that we get as a work group is also open for the community to have access to.

As always, I'm just thankful that everyone is willing to participate in this work group.

As we say in our first meeting, the goal is really just to try to find a way to look at our development process to see if there's things we could be doing more efficiently to look at what neighboring jurisdictions or even best practices around the country.

Um, but holding what's important to me is that we want to make sure that we have the best process, but not at the expense of the community and the community having a voice in the type of development uh that comes into the community.

So that's my goal and my hope for uh this task force.

For today's discussion, we'll have planning department presentation on subdivision review process, a discussion on improvement for the efficiency and timing of the subdivision review process, discussion on consolidation and things running concurrent, uh, and then update on uh analysis of the regional development review process that we had from our first meeting.

Um now I'll pass it to uh I guess staff who's gonna um orient for for the presentation.

Good afternoon, uh Madam Chair and members of the streamlining development review work group.

I'd like to uh introduce you to uh Miss Sherry Connors, who is the division chief with the Prince George's County Planning Department.

She will be providing a presentation to us today.

Ms.

Connor, if you will please thank you.

Yes, good afternoon.

Can you hear me okay?

Yes.

Okay, excellent.

Um good afternoon, Madam Chair and members of the committee.

Um thank you for having me today.

I'm gonna share my screen here.

All right.

Can everyone see that?

Okay, excellent.

Um, I'm gonna go over the subdivision uh process, uh, what subdivision is, when it is required, what the process looks like, um, some examples of um real projects that have gone through the process, and um some an example also of a concurrent review that was done with site plan.

So you can kind of see what the timeline looks like, what all is involved in the process, and then offer some food for thought as you go into your discussions on recommendations for streamlining.

Um the subdivision regulations are housed under subtitle 24 of the county code.

Um the subdivision process really entails the the division consolidation or establishments of lots or tracks or parcels of land.

Um it's where we review uh the proposed development or uses and their impacts on public facilities.

And um, if applicable, imposed exactions for roads, pedestrian bicycle park improvements, and or the payment of fees for schools, police, fire and rescue services where inadequacies may exist.

Um it's uh a preliminary plan drawing as a one-dimensional drawing prepared by a surveyor or landscape architect.

It shows proposed lot lines, it shows the locations of streets, um, open space areas or areas for parks.

Um, it depicts uh non-disturbance, maybe tree conservation areas, locations for utilities, um, but it is it does not depict the proposed buildings and structures and other site details.

Um, those are detailed further at a subsequent development review stage.

Um really the purpose of subdivision is to ensure the orderly planned development of land, um providing for safety of uh health and welfare.

Um, as I said, it organizes the layout of the land where your open spaces will go, um, where environmental protections should be placed and determines the location where infrastructure will be placed in order to develop the property, including roads and utilities.

Subdivision is sort of the third step in the development process, but it's often the first step in obtaining development approvals.

And that's because master planning is already done and in place.

That is done through our master planning process and master master plans, sector plans, general plan are already in place.

So unless the development application involves a rezoning, subdivision will be the first place a development application will typically start.

And on this slide, I do have the approval authority for each of these steps.

Subdivision is under the sole review authority of the planning board.

So when does subdivision apply?

Any land proposed to be subdivided, proposed to be developed, or proposed for converting from residential to non-residential or vice versa, is subject to subdivision.

There are certain limited exemptions to that.

If an existing property is only proposing one single family detached dwelling, less than 5,000 square feet of gross floor area and/or is generating less than 50 trips, it's exempt from subdivision or may meet an exemption.

Also development that is existing on the property prior to 1990 is also exempt.

All right.

So this is just kind of a flowchart of the preliminary plan of subdivision process.

This is for a major subdivision, and I'll talk about kind of the steps that are taken out for a minor.

But every subdivision is required to have a pre-application conference.

That is a conference with planning staff to present a concept of the development proposal so that staff can provide guidance on steps in the development review process and any major issues that we might point out, such as you know, if there's floodplain on the property, certain things that applicant could expect or studies that might be required.

The next step is the pre-application neighborhood meeting.

The applicant holds this meeting, and it's the opportunity for them to interact with the public about their proposed project.

Staff of the planning department do not attend.

This is really opportunity for the developer to work with the neighborhood.

Following that meeting, the applicant may proceed to submit their application.