§ 27-225.01.05. Optional Planning Board procedures; initiation concurrent with Area Master Plan or Sector Plan.

(a)

Authorization.

(1)

The Planning Board may be authorized in writing by the District Council to prepare a Sectional Map Amendment concurrently with an Area Master Plan. The date of initiation of the Sectional Map Amendment shall be the date of the initiation of the Area Master Plan or Sector Plan by the Planning Board with the written concurrence of the District Council.

(b)

Preparation of a Zoning Map.

(1)

The Planning Board shall prepare a proposed Zoning Map, which shall be based upon the recommendations contained in the preliminary plan, concurrently with, and as part of, the Area Master Plan or Sector Plan, unless documented to be in conflict with County laws or policies established elsewhere.

(2)

The proposed Sectional Map Amendment shall include the information required in Section 27-225(c)(2).

(c)

Comprehensive Design Zone reconsideration.

(1)

Comprehensive Design Zone applications within pending Sectional Map Amendment areas, which have already been considered by the Planning Board (but not yet decided by the District Council), may be reconsidered by the Planning Board for the purposes of incorporating them into the Sectional Map Amendment.

(d)

Action and transmittal.

(1)

The Planning Board shall transmit the Sectional Map Amendment it endorsed as part of the adopted Area Master Plan or Sector Plan in accordance with Section 27-645(c).

(e)

Notice.

(1)

The Planning Board shall notify all owners of land within the boundaries of the Sectional Map Amendment in accordance with Section 27-644(c).

(f)

Pending Zoning Map Amendment applications.

(1)

The Planning Board shall process pending Zoning Map Amendment cases in accordance with Section 27-225.01(f).

(CB-33-1992; CB-39-2005; CB-35-2011)