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The purpose of the Design Guidelines for Parks and Recreation Facilities is to ensure that public and private recreation facilities in Prince George’s County are developed and constructed in a safe, functional, and long-lasting manner to meet residents’ recreational needs, while conserving public open space, natural resources, historic resources, and cultural resources.

The guidelines are also intended to assist in maintaining the goals of the Prince George’s County Department of Parks and Recreation:

• We want County residents to be both socially and physically connected
• We want our investments in facilities and programs to stimulate the economy
• We want our facilities and programs to have wellness components that will contribute to the physical and mental health of our patrons and the environmental health of communities.

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Parks and Recreation Facilities Design Guidelines

This document explains the State of Place statistical analysis of three commercial areas in the City of Bowie, Maryland: Bowie Local Center, MD 450 Corridor, and Old Town Bowie—identified in the 2022 Approved Bowie-Mitchellville and Vicinity Master Plan as having economic development potential. The State of Place analysis uses algorithms to quantify the economic value of urban design, provides recommendations to raise the economic development value of these areas, and estimates the increased economic value associated with implementing urban design improvements. Only a few examples of ideal scenarios are shown herein; the City of Bowie will continue to test scenarios to achieve the ideal roster of urban design changes needed. This project was funded and managed by the Prince George’s
County Planning Department’s Planning Assistance to Municipalities and Communities (PAMC) Program.

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Bowie State of Place Analysis

The Planning Department released an initial draft sector plan and proposed SMA for public review on July 22, 2022. On October 11, 2022, the County Council and Planning Board held a joint public hearing to gather testimony on both documents. Since that date, the Planning Department revised the draft sector plan and proposed SMA, incorporating feedback from the public hearing and aligning it more closely with the County’s adopted policies, subsequently releasing a second draft sector plan and proposed SMA in May 2024. A second joint public hearing was held on the new draft on October 1, 2024.

However, this draft was remanded by the Planning Board on January 9, 2025, to reconsider the rezoning of Queens Chapel Manor and other neighborhoods for Missing Middle housing, analyze the impacts of the Housing Expansion and Affordability Act (HB 538) signed into law on April 25, 2024, and address changes introduced by the adoption of CB-15-2024 on July 16, 2024, to ensure alignment with new housing and zoning policies.

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3rd Draft WHQC SP 2025.04.24 3rd Draft WHQC SMA 2025.04 Appendix E WHQC - 20241001 Analysis of Testimony 2025.04 Appendix F. Preliminary WHQC SP Map Citations

This document is a Vacant Lot Strategy for the Town of Capitol Heights, a small municipality located in Prince George’s County, Maryland, incorporated in 1910 (Planning Area 75B, Councilmanic District 7). In fall 2021, the Town applied to the Prince George’s County Planning Department’s Planning Assistance to Municipalities and Communities (PAMC) program to fund this strategy. PAMC funding was approved by the Prince George’s County Planning Board on May 26, 2022, and the project kicked off on January 13, 2023. The strategy
establishes a Vacant Lot Inventory; identifies existing regulatory, environmental, maintenance, and financial challenges; and provides goals and recommendations for maintaining, repurposing, and/or developing vacant lots. The Capitol Heights Vacant Lot Strategy aligns with
past and ongoing planning efforts by the Town, the County, and the greater Washington, DC region to support livable and transit-oriented communities.

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Capitol Heights Vacant Lot Strategy

This Report updates the pupil yield factors that are used in the regulatory review of preliminary subdivision plans. These factors are applied to analyze a proposed development’s impact on the public school districts where it may be located.

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2024 Pupil Yield Study

This document is a Community Forest Management Plan for the Town of Riverdale Park, a municipality in Prince George’s County, Maryland, incorporated in 1920 (Planning Area 68, Councilmanic District 3). In December 2021, the Town applied to the Prince George’s County Planning Department via the Department’s Planning Assistance to Municipalities and Communities Program (PAMC) to fund a tree inventory and management plan. Funding for the project was approved by the Prince George’s County Planning Board on May 26, 2022. The kickoff was held in January 2023, and the project was completed in February 2025.
The purpose of the project was to assess the condition of trees in public rights-of-way within the municipal boundary and provide Town staff with the tools and data to make informed decisions about protecting, maintaining, and expanding the Town’s street tree inventory.
Tree inventory data were collected pursuant to the Maryland Roadway Tree Law by Maryland Licensed Tree Experts (LTE) or equal (International Society of Arboriculture Certified Arborists). Data were entered into the Prince George’s County Department of Public Works and Transportation’s (DPW&T) PlanIt Geo TreePlotter™ software to generate graphic and spatial representations of existing conditions that revealed needs and opportunities. The findings of the tree inventory and condition assessment directly informed this plan, which includes a prioritized management program for future tree care.

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Town of Riverdale Park Community Forest Management Plan

Go Prince George’s is the functional master plan for transportation, mobility, and accessibility within those portions of the Maryland-Washington Regional District in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Upon approval, Go Prince George’s will supersede and replace the 2009 Countywide Master Plan of Transportation, the Transportation and Mobility Element in Plan 2035, and transportation facility recommendations in all area master plans, sector plans, transit district development plans, and functional master plans approved prior to the date of approval of this plan.

This functional master plan was formulated over a four-year period and guided by a public participation plan that included engagement with residents, property owners, business owners, public agencies, and many other stakeholders. This functional master plan contains Prince George’s County’s vision for fundamentally transforming its multimodal transportation network to implement Plan 2035 and other County plans by increasing access to opportunities and advancing economic development, housing, and environmental goals by creating a twenty-first century multimodal mobility network. The plan contains goals, policies, and strategies to implement the plan vision safely, sustainably, and equitably. Go Prince George’s also includes an implementation framework illustrating the timeline, partnerships, and action items critical to achieving the County’s vision for its future.

NOTE: Please download the FULL document from the ISSUU flipbook (above) for best quality. The file is large (107 MB) to allow for clearer map viewing. You may download individual sections below. If you prefer to view the downloaded files in a book-like format in Acrobat instead of as single pages, you can choose File/View/Page Display/Two-page display from the menu, and also choose Show Cover Page.

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Go Prince George's Preliminary Plan - 2025 (Section I) Go Prince George's Preliminary Plan - 2025 (Section II) Go Prince George's Preliminary Plan - 2025 (Section III) Go Prince George's Preliminary Plan - 2025 (Section IV) Go Prince George's Preliminary Plan - 2025 (Section V)

This document details recommended strategies to improve transportation in urban communities. It is based on the findings of earlier efforts in the study, including the review and analysis of prior area planning, documented in the Planning Analysis Memorandum of April 2018.

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Transportation Action Guide for Urban Communities: Implementation Strategies Playbook

This Fall 2024 Data Journal summarizes data on net migration in Prince George’s County. The data for 2010 and 2020 were surveyed and compiled by the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) 5-year estimates.

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07.2024_Data-Journal_Net-Migration_v002

This report provides information about people of Hispanic or Latino origin in Prince George’s County. The data come from the U.S. Census Bureau’s surveys, including the 2000, 2010, and 2020 Censuses, as well as the American Community Survey (ACS) estimates for 2010 and 2022.

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Data Journal-Winter 2025