Ch. 478                                     1993 LAWS OF MARYLAND

CHAPTER 478
(Senate Bill 867)

AN ACT concerning

Beltsville Agriculture Research Center - Agricultural Open Space

FOR the purpose of requiring the County Council of Prince George's County, sitting as a
district council, to place certain property known as the Beltsville Agriculture
Research Center in a zoning classification of agricultural open space immediately
after the occurrence of a certain event; clarifying a certain provision of law, defining
a certain term; and generally relating to the designation of property known as the
Beltsville Agriculture Research Center as agricultural open space after the sale of
the land.                                                                                 

BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,

Article 28 - Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

Section 8-101(b)(l)

Annotated Code of Maryland

(1990 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

BY adding to

Article 28 - Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
Section 8-126

Annotated Code of Maryland                                                             

(1990 Replacement Volume and 1992 Supplement)

SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:

Article 28 - Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

8-101.

(b) (1) IN THIS SUBSECTION THE TERM "ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF
AGRICULTURAL OPEN SPACE" MEANS A ZONING CLASSIFICATION IN WHICH USES ARE
LIMITED TO THOSE PERMISSIBLE IN THE AGRICULTURAL OPEN SPACE PORTION OF AN
AGRICULTURAL PRESERVATION DEVELOPMENT UNDER § 27-445.01 OF THE PRINCE
GEORGE'S COUNTY CODE (1991 EDITION, AS AMENDED).

(2) [Each] EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED IN § 8-126 OF THIS
SUBTITLE, EACH district council, respectively, in accordance with the conditions and
procedures specified in this article, may by ordinance adopt and amend the text of the
zoning ordinance and may by resolution or ordinance adopt and amend the map or maps
accompanying the zoning ordinance text to regulate, in the portion of the regional district
lying within its county, (i) the location, height, bulk, and size of buildings, other
structures, and units therein, building lines, minimum frontages, depths and areas of lots,
and percentages of lots which may be occupied; (ii) the size of lots, yards, courts, and

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