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LCDLegacy Comprehensive Design (LCD)

Prince George's County, MD · Prince George's County Zoning Ordinance

The Legacy Comprehensive Design (LCD) Zone recognizes former Comprehensive Design Zones established before April 1, 2022 for which a Basic Plan, Comprehensive Design Plan (CDP), or Specific Design Plan (SDP) was approved under the prior ordinance. Development proceeds through the three-phase design-plan review (Basic Plan, then CDP, then SDP); the approved Basic Plan fixes the general land-use types, land-use relationships, and minimum land-use quantities, and base density/intensity may increase within the prescribed ranges in return for public-benefit features. Permitted uses and development standards are therefore property-specific -- they are governed by the individual approved plans and by the standards of the zone the property held before it was placed in the LCD Zone, not by a countywide use or dimensional table (Subtitle 27, Sec. 27-4205(c); transitional provisions Sec. 27-1700, incl. Sec. 27-1704(g)). No property may be rezoned into a Legacy Zone after April 1, 2022.

Development standards in LCD

Maximum heightSet by approved Basic Plan / CDP / SDP — see Sec. 27-4205
A standard shown as "set by" is banded in the ordinance — it depends on what you build or on the lot itself, so no single figure is true for the whole zone. The cited table is the authority; read the tier that matches your intended structure.
Read from Prince George's County, MD Zoning Ordinance (Subtitle 27), effective through 2026-01-05.

Permitted uses in LCD

"Conditional" means the use generally requires a public hearing or special-exception approval — a very different timeline and risk profile from a by-right permit.

This is the zone. What about the parcel?

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