Bladensburg City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
PART 27
1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sections
- Sec. 27-1100 Title
- Sec. 27-1200 Authority
- Sec. 27-1300 General Purpose and Intent
- Sec. 27-1400 Applicability and Jurisdiction
- Sec. 27-1500 Relationship with Other Laws, Covenants, or Deeds
- Sec. 27-1600 Official Zoning Map
- 27-1601. Establishment
- 27-1602. Zone Classification of Annexed Land
- 27-1603. Property Conveyed by the United States of America or by the State of Maryland.
- 27-1604. Property Conveyed by the State for the University of Maryland
- 27-1605. Reserved.
- 27-1606. Land conveyed to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
- 27-1607. Reserved.
- Sec. 27-1700 Transitional Provisions
- 27-1701. Purpose and Intent
- 27-1702. Violations Continue
- 27-1703. Applications Pending Prior to the Effective Date of this Ordinance
- 27-1704. Projects Which Received Development or Permit Approval Under the Provisions of the Prior Zoning Ordinance
- 27-1705. Temporary Authorization for Outdoor Seating
- 27-1706. Prohibited laws under the Prior Zoning Ordinance.
- 27-1707. Grandfathered Buildings, Structures, Site Features, and Uses
- Sec. 27-1800 Severability
- Sec. 27-1900 Development Pursuant to Prior Ordinance
- Sec. 27-11000 Regulations Applicable in All Zones
PART 27
2 INTERPRETATION AND DEFINITIONS
Sections
- Sec. 27-2100 Interpretations and Rules of Construction
- Sec. 27-2200 Measurement and Exceptions of Intensity and Dimensional Standards
- Sec. 27-2300 Order of Approvals
- Sec. 27-2400 Principal Use Classification
- Sec. 27-2500 Definitions
- 100-year floodplain
- Abrasives and asbestos products manufacturing
- Abutting or adjoining
- Accessory structure
- Adjacent
- Accident Potential Zone ("APZ")
- Adaptive reuse
- Adaptive reuse of a surplus public school
- Adult book or video store
- Adult day care center
- Adult entertainment
- Agriculture
- Agriculture research facility
- Agritourism
- Air Installation Compatible Use Zone Study ("AICUZ")
- Airfield, airpark, airport, or airstrip
- Airport, medium
- Airport, small
- Alcohol production facility, large-scale
- Alcohol production facility, small-scale
- Alley
- Amusement center
- Amusement park
- Animal shelter
- Antenna
- Apartment housing for elderly or physically handicapped families
- Application or development application
- Approach-departure clearance surface
- Aquatic center or natatorium
- Arboretum or botanical garden
- Archery or baseball batting range (indoor or outdoor)
- Architectural lighting
- Area Master Plan
- Arena, stadium, or amphitheater
- Art gallery
- Art, photography, music, dance, yoga, pilates, or martial arts studio or school
- Artists’ residential studios
- Assisted living facility
- Automated teller machine (ATM)
- Aviation Policy Area (APA)
- Bank or other financial institution
- Banquet facility
- Beauty salon or barber shop
- Bed and breakfast (as accessory to a single-family detached dwelling)
- Beekeeping
- Beverage bottling
- Bicycle sales or rental
- Bike share station
- Bike share system
- Block
- Block face
- Block length
- Board of Appeals
- Boarding or rooming house
- Boat sales, rental, service, or repair
- Boat storage yard
- Broadcasting studio
- Buffer
- Building
- Building footprint
- Building mass
- Building permit
- Building, accessory
- Building height
- Building, main
- Building shell analysis
- Building line
- Build-to line
- Build-to zone
- Bulk retailing
- Bulk storage of gasoline
- Business advancement and food access infill
- Business service center
- Camping trailer
- Cannabis
- Cannabis dispensary
- Cannabis finished product
- Cannabis grower
- Cannabis incubator
- Cannabis micro-dispensary
- Cannabis micro-grower
- Cannabis micro-processor
- Cannabis on-site consumption establishment
- Cannabis processor
- Canopy
- Car wash
- Car washing station, private
- Carport
- Catering establishment
- Catering or food processing for off-site consumption
- Cement manufacturing
- Cemetery
- Certified nonconforming use
- Certifying physician
- Change of use
- Check cashing business
- Chesapeake Bay Critical Area
- Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Overlay Zoning Map Amendment
- Cigar Club/Lounge
- Cinema
- Circus, carnival, fair, or other special event
- Class 3 fill
- Clear Zone
- Club or lodge, private
- Clubhouse
- Cold storage plant
- College or university
- Collocated telecommunications antenna
- Combination retail
- Commercial fuel depot
- Commercial recreation attraction
- Commercial recreational facilities
- Commercial vehicle repair and maintenance
- Common area
- Community building
- Community garden
- Community non-profit space
- Composting facility
- Composting, small-scale
- Comprehensive plan
- Concept Plan (Stormwater Management)
- Concrete batching or asphalt mixing plant
- Concrete or brick products manufacturing
- Concrete recycling facility
- Conference or training center
- Conical surface
- Conservation easement
- Conservation easement, Chesapeake Bay Critical Area
- Conservation easement, regulated environmental features
- Conservation easement, woodland and wildlife habitat
- Consolidated storage
- Construction-related office/yard
- Consumer goods establishment
- Contractor’s office
- Contractor’s yard
- Convenience store
- Convent or monastery
- Conversion of a single-family detached dwelling to add a maximum of two (2) additional dwelling units
- Cottage food
- Country club
- Country inn
- Crematory
- Cultural facility
- Day
- Day care center for children
- Day labor service
- Density, net
- Department store
- Departure
- Detailed site plan
- Detailed site plan for infrastructure
- Development
- Development Application
- Development lot as a whole
- Direct illumination
- Distribution warehouse
- District Council
- Dog daycare facility
- Dog park
- Dormitory, private
- DPIE
- DPIE Director
- Drive-through service
- Driving school
- Drug store or pharmacy
- Dry-cleaning or laundry drop-off/pick-up establishment
- Dry-cleaning, laundry, or carpet-cleaning plant
- Dwelling
- Dwelling unit
- Dwelling, live-work
- Dwelling, multifamily
- Dwelling, single-family attached
- Dwelling, single-family detached
- Dwelling, three-family
- Dwelling, townhouse
- Dwelling, two-family
- Electric vehicle (EV)
- Electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE)
- EV level 2 charging
- EV level 2 charging station ready outlet
- EV-Ready parking space
- EVSE-Installed parking space
- Electronic cigarette shop
- Electronic recycling facility
- Eleemosynary or philanthropic institution
- Emergency services facility
- Employment agency
- Enlargement or extension
- Entertainment establishment
- Environmental Technical Manual
- Equestrian center
- Evidentiary hearing
- Family
- Family child care home, large
- Family child care home, small
- Farm-based alcohol production
- Farm market
- Farm supply sales and farm machinery/implement sales, rental, or repair
- Farm tenant dwelling (as accessory to an agriculture use)
- Farmers’ market
- Fenestration/transparency
- Fertilizer manufacturing
- Firewood display and sales
- Fisheries activities
- Fixed-Guideway Transit
- Flea market
- Flex space
- Floor area ratio (FAR)
- Food or beverage distribution at wholesale
- Food hub
- Food market
- Food and market hall
- Food processing
- Food truck hub
- Forestry
- Forest stand delineation
- Fortune telling establishment
- Fraternity or sorority house
- Front street line
- Fuel oil or bottled gas distribution
- Functional Master Plan
- Funeral parlor or undertaking establishment
- Garage or carport
- Garage or yard sale
- Gas station
- General industrial services
- General Plan
- Golf course
- Golf driving range
- Grading permit
- Green area
- Green roof
- Greenway
- Grocery store
- Gross floor area (GFA)
- Group residential facility
- Guest house
- Guest room
- Health campus
- Health club
- Health impact assessment review
- Heavy armament fabrication
- Heavy equipment sales, rental, servicing, or storage
- Height, building
- Helipad
- High intensity noise areas (HINA)
- High-service transit stop
- Highly erodible soils
- Historic Preservation Commission
- Home improvements
- Home occupation
- Hospital
- Hotel
- Imaginary (height limit) surfaces
- Impact maps
- Inner horizontal surface
- Inside the Capital Beltway
- Junkyard
- Keeping of horses or ponies
- Kennel
- Landfill, land clearing debris
- Landscape Manual
- Landscaping contractor’s business
- Laundromat
- Lawn care or pest control service
- Legislative amendment
- Limited fuel/oil/bottled gas distribution
- Links
- Liquid gas storage
- Livestock
- Lot
- Lot, corner
- Lot, interior
- Lot, record
- Lot, through
- Lot coverage
- Lot lines
- Lot line, front
- Lot line, rear
- Lot line, side
- Major plan amendment
- Manufactured home
- Manufactured home as emergency housing
- Manufactured home park
- Manufactured or modular home sales
- Manufacturing, artisan or maker
- Manufacturing, assembly, or fabrication, heavy
- Manufacturing, assembly, or fabrication, light
- Marina
- Massage establishment
- Medical facility
- Medical/residential campus
- Medical or dental office or lab
- Metal-working, welding, plumbing, or gas, steam, or water pipe fitting
- Military Installation Overlay Zone (MIO Zone) Area
- Miniature golf course
- Minor plan amendment
- M-NCPPC
- Mobile home
- Model studio
- Modular classroom
- Monument or headstone sales establishment
- Motel
- Motor freight facility
- Municipality
- Natural Resource Inventory
- Net lot area
- Newspaper/periodical publishing establishment
- Newspaper of record
- Nightclub
- Node
- Noise Contour
- Noise study
- Nonconforming lot of record
- Nonconforming building or structure
- Nonconforming use
- Nonprofit recreational use
- Nontidal wetland
- Nursery and garden center
- Nursery garden center (as accessory to an agricultural use)
- Nursing or care home
- Office, general business and professional
- Office park
- Outdoor storage (as a principal use)
- Outdoor storage (as an accessory use)
- Outparcel (Subdivision)
- Outparcel (Zoning)
- Outside the Capital Beltway
- Owner
- Paper and paperboard products
- Paper recycling collection center
- Parcel services
- Park and ride facility
- Park
- Parking area
- Parking bay
- Parking demand study
- Parking facility
- Parking facility, temporary
- Parking lot drive aisle
- Parking of commercial vehicles
- Parking space, handicapped accessible
- Parking space, off-street
- Parking structure or structured parking
- Parking, deferred
- Parking, shared
- Parking, tandem
- Patio
- Pawnshop
- Performance arts center
- Person
- Person of record (party of record)
- Personal grooming or well-being services
- Personal laundry or dry-cleaning services
- Personal or household goods repair establishment
- Personal travel or information services
- Personal vehicle repair and maintenance
- Pet grooming establishment
- Photographic processing plant
- Person with a disability
- Place of worship
- Planned retirement community
- Planning Board
- Planning Director
- Primary drive aisle
- Primary surface
- Printing or similar reproduction facility
- Private dormitory
- Private school
- Produce stand
- Public utility uses or structures, major
- Public utility uses or structures, minor
- Public water-oriented recreational and educational area
- Qualified data center
- Qualifying patient
- Racetrack, pari-mutuel
- Recreation courts
- Recreation facility
- Recreational campground
- Recreational or entertainment establishment of a commercial nature
- Recreational program, before- and after-school
- Recycling collection center
- Recycling of non-ferrous metal
- Recycling plant
- Regulated environmental features
- Regulated stream
- Remand de novo
- Research and development
- Residential community recreation facility
- Restaurant
- Restaurant, quick-service
- Retail sales (as accessory to a manufacturing, warehouse, or wholesale use)
- Retail sales (as accessory to a multifamily development)
- Retaining wall
- Riding stable
- Rifle, pistol, or skeet shooting range
- Rooming house
- Routine repair and maintenance
- Rubble fill
- Salvage yard
- Sadomasochistic abuse
- Safety zones
- Sand and gravel wet-processing
- Sanitary landfill
- Satellite dish antenna
- Sawmill (as a principal use)
- Sawmill (as a temporary on-site use)
- Seasonal decorations display and sales
- Sectional map amendment
- Sector plan
- Septic tank service
- Sexual conduct
- Sexual excitement
- Shared commercial kitchen
- Shopping center
- Sidewalk
- Sidewalk pedestrian clearance zone
- Sign
- Sign area or surface area
- Sign illumination, animated
- Sign illumination, static
- Sign, address
- Sign, building wall or roof
- Sign, canopy
- Sign, changeable copy
- Sign, construction identification
- Sign, directional
- Sign, easel
- Sign, electronic
- Sign, freestanding
- Sign, gateway
- Sign, illuminated
- Sign, monument
- Sign, nonconforming
- Sign, outdoor advertising (billboard)
- Sign, political
- Sign, portable
- Sign, projecting
- Sign, real estate
- Sign, real estate directional
- Sign, sandwich board
- Sign, temporary
- Sign, traffic
- Sign, window
- Site elements or site features
- Skating facility
- Slaughterhouse
- Small engine repair shop
- Small wireless facility
- Solar energy systems (large-scale)
- Solar energy systems (small-scale)
- Solid waste processing facility
- Solid waste transfer station
- Spa
- Stable, private
- Stacking lane
- State-licensed medical clinic
- Storage warehouse
- Street
- Street line
- Structure
- Structure height
- Subdivision
- Surface mining
- Swimming pool (indoor or outdoor) (as a principal use)
- Swimming pool, commercial (as an accessory use)
- Swimming pool, private
- Swimming pool sales and service establishment
- Tank farm
- Tanning salon
- Tattoo or body-piercing establishment
- Taxi or limousine service facility
- Taxidermy establishment
- Telephone call center
- Temporary classroom
- Temporary portable storage unit
- Temporary real estate sales office/model
- Temporary recyclables collection
- Temporary shelter for commercial displays, sales, and services
- Tobacco shop, electronic cigarette shop, or retail tobacco business
- Tourist home (as accessory to a dwelling)
- Tower, pole, or monopole
- Transient manufactured home or recreational vehicle residence
- Transit station or terminal
- Transitional surface
- Transportation demand management (TDM)
- Travel agency
- Tree canopy
- Tree canopy coverage
- Tree Conservation Plan
- Urban agriculture
- Use, accessory
- Use, principal
- Utility easement
- Variance
- Vehicle and trailer rental display
- Vehicle or trailer storage yard
- Vehicle paint finishing shop
- Vehicle parts or tire store
- Vehicle repair and service station
- Vehicle sales and rentals, commercial
- Vehicle sales and rentals, personal
- Vehicle salvage yard
- Vehicle towing and wrecker service
- Veterinary hospital or clinic
- Video lottery facility (casino)
- Video lottery operation license
- Video lottery operator
- Video lottery terminal
- Vocational or trade school
- Warehouse showroom
- Water-dependent research facility
- Waterfront entertainment/retail complex
- Waterfront boat fuel sales
- Wayside stand
- Wind energy conversion system (large-scale)
- Wind energy conversion system (small-scale)
- Yard
- Yard, front
- Yard, rear
- Yard, side
- Zoning case
- Zoning certification
- Zoning Hearing Examiner (ZHE)
- Zoning map
- Zoning Map Amendment (ZMA)
PART 27
3 ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- Sec. 27-3100 General
- Sec. 27-3200 Summary Table of Development Review Responsibilities
- Sec. 27-3300 Advisory and Decision-Making Bodies
- 27-3301. District Council
- 27-3302. Prince George’s County Planning Board (Planning Board)
- 27-3303. Board of Appeals (BOA)
- 27-3304. Zoning Hearing Examiner (ZHE)
- 27-3305. Planning Director
- 27-3306. Department of Permitting, Inspections and Enforcement Director (DPIE Director)
- 27-3307. Historic Preservation Commission
- 27-3308. Municipalities
- 27-3309. People’s Zoning Counsel
- 27-3310. LMUTC Design Review Committees
- Sec. 27-3400 Standard Review Procedures
- 27-3401. Pre-Application Conference
- 27-3402. Pre-Application Neighborhood Meeting
- 27-3403. Application Submittal
- 27-3404. Determination of Completeness
- 27-3405. Application Amendment or Withdrawal
- 27-3406. Staff Review and Action
- 27-3407. Scheduling of Hearings and Public Notice
- 27-3408. Review and Recommendation by Advisory Board or Official
- 27-3409. Review and Decision by Decision-Making Body or Official
- 27-3410. Ex Parte Communications
- 27-3411. General Public Hearing
- 27-3412. Evidentiary Hearing (Planning Board and ZHE)
- 27-3413. Evidentiary Hearing (BOA)
- 27-3414. Oral Argument Hearing
- 27-3415. Conditions of Approval
- 27-3416. Notification
- 27-3417. Appeal
- 27-3418. Post-Decision Actions
- 27-3419. Examination and Copying of Application/Other Documents
- Sec. 27-3500 Legislative Amendments, Area Master Plans, and Sectional Map Amendment Review Procedures and Decision Standards
- Sec. 27-3600 Application-Specific Review Procedures and Decision Standards
- 27-3601. Zoning Map Amendment (ZMA)
- 27-3602. Planned Development (PD) Zoning Map Amendment
- 27-3603. Chesapeake Bay Critical Area Overlay (CBCAO) Zoning Map Amendment
- 27-3604. Special Exception
- 27-3605. Detailed Site Plan
- 27-3606. Sign Permit
- 27-3607. Temporary Use Permit
- 27-3608. Use and Occupancy Permit
- 27-3609. Zoning Certification
- 27-3610. Grading Permit
- 27-3611. Building Permit
- 27-3612. Interpretation (Text, Uses, and Zoning Map)
- 27-3613. Variance
- 27-3614. Departure (Minor and Major)
- 27-3615. Validation of Permit Issued in Error
- 27-3616. Appeal to Board of Appeals (BOA)
- 27-3617. Authorization of Permit Within Proposed Right-of-Way (ROW)
- 27-3618. Certification of Nonconforming Use
- 27-3619. Expedited Transit-Oriented Development Review
PART 27
4 ZONES AND ZONE REGULATIONS
Sections
- Sec. 27-4100 General Provisions
- Sec. 27-4200 Base Zones
- Sec. 27-4300 Planned Development Zones
- Sec. 27-4400 Overlay Zones
PART 27
5 USE REGULATIONS
Sections
- Sec. 27-5100 Principal Uses
- Sec. 27-5200 Accessory Uses and Structures
- Sec. 27-5300 Temporary Uses and Structures
- Sec. 27-5400 Special Exception Standards
PART 27
6 DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS
Sections
- Sec. 27-6100 Applicability
- Sec. 27-6200 Roadway Access, Mobility, and Circulation
- 27-6201. Purpose and Intent
- 27-6202. Consistency with Plans
- 27-6203. Multimodal Transportation System
- 27-6204. Circulation Plan or Site Plan Required
- 27-6205. Developer Responsible for On-Site Street Improvements
- 27-6206. Vehicular Access and Circulation
- 27-6207. Pedestrian Access and Circulation
- 27-6208. Bicycle Access and Circulation
- Sec. 27-6300 Off-Street Parking and Loading
- 27-6301. Purpose and Intent
- 27-6302. Applicability
- 27-6303. Parking Plan or Site Plan Required
- 27-6304. General Standards for Off-Street Parking and Loading Areas
- 27-6305. Off-Street Parking Space Standards
- 27-6306. Dimensional Standards for Parking Spaces and Aisles
- 27-6307. Off-Street Parking Alternatives
- 27-6308. Reduced Parking Standards for Parking Demand Reduction Strategies
- 27-6309. Bicycle Parking Standards
- 27-6310. Loading Area Standards
- Sec. 27-6400 Open Space Set-Asides
- 27-6401. Purpose and Intent
- 27-6402. Applicability
- 27-6403. Amount of Open Space Set-Asides Required
- 27-6404. Areas Counted as Open Space Set-Asides
- 27-6405. Areas Not Counted as Open Space Set-Asides
- 27-6406. Design Standards for Open Space Set-Asides
- 27-6407. Development in Open Space Set-Asides
- 27-6408. Ownership, Management, and Maintenance of Open Space Set-Asides
- Sec. 27-6500 Landscaping
- Sec. 27-6600 Fences and Walls
- Sec. 27-6700 Exterior Lighting
- Sec. 27-6800 Environmental Protection and Noise Controls
- 27-6801. Purpose and Intent
- 27-6802. Natural Resource Inventory (NRI)
- 27-6803. Trees and Vegetation
- 27-6804. Floodplain Management
- 27-6805. Erosion and Sedimentation Control
- 27-6806. Stormwater Management
- 27-6807. Chesapeake Bay Critical Area
- 27-6808. Regulated Environmental Features
- 27-6809. Unsafe Lands
- 27-6810. Noise Control
- Sec. 27-6900 Multifamily, Townhouse, and Three-Family Form and Design Standards
- Sec. 27-61000 Nonresidential and Mixed-Use Form and Design Standards
- Sec. 27-61100 Industrial Form and Design Standards
- Sec. 27-61200 Neighborhood Compatibility Standards
- Sec. 27-61300 Agricultural Compatibility Standards
- Sec. 27-61400 Urban Agriculture Compatibility Standards
- Sec. 27-61500 Signage
- Sec. 27-61600 Green Building Standards
PART 27
7 NONCONFORMING BUILDINGS, STRUCTURES, USES, LOTS, AND SIGNS
Sections
- Sec. 27-7100 General Requirements and Procedures
- Sec. 27-7200 Additional Requirements for Specific Nonconforming Uses
- Sec. 27-7300 Nonconforming Structures – Special Procedures
- Sec. 27-7400 Nonconforming Lots of Record
- Sec. 27-7500 Nonconforming Signs
- Sec. 27-7600 Other Nonconformities
PART 27
8 ENFORCEMENT
Sections
- Sec. 27-8100 Use and Occupancy Permits
- Sec. 27-8200 Enforcement
- Sec. 27-8300 Fees