Bryans Rd, Bryans Road, MD 20616

Planned Residential Development Zone

It is the purpose of the Planned Residential Development (PRD) Zone to implement standards and recommendations of the Charles County Comprehensive Plan by permitting unified residential development consistent with the densities recommended in the Comprehensive Plan. It is intended that this zone provide a means of regulating development which can achieve flexibility of design, the integration of mutually compatible residential uses, optimum land planning with greater efficiency, environmental sensitivity, convenience and amenity than the procedures and regulations would permit as a right under the base zones. In so doing, it is intended that this zone be utilized to implement the recommendations and other pertinent County policies in a manner closely compatible with said County plans and policies.; To ensure that all developments will positively contribute to the County's historic and cultural heritage, as reflected in the Comprehensive Plan, by preserving historic structures, sites and vistas.; That development be so designed and constructed as to facilitate and encourage a maximum of social and community interaction and activity among those who live and work within an area and to encourage the creation of a distinctive visual character and identity for each development. It is intended that development in this zone produce a balanced and coordinated mixture of residential uses.; To provide and encourage a broad range of housing types, comprised of owner and rental occupancy units, with single-family, multiple-family and other structural types.; To preserve and take the greatest possible aesthetic advantage of trees and to achieve this objective through minimal grading necessary for construction of a development.