§ 27A-301. Rules for Regulating Plans.

(a)

Purpose and Intent.

(1)

A Regulating Plan is the controlling document and principal tool for implementing this Subtitle.

(2)

Functional Overlays for elements such as environmental infrastructure, the transportation network, public facilities, and historic resources are essential to the development of a Regulating Plan. No Regulating Plan may be created or approved without due consideration of these Functional Overlays.

(3)

The Regulating Plan makes the development standards place-specific, by allocating the Building Envelope Standards (BES) within each center and mapping the public spaces. A Regulating Plan identifies: the boundaries for the center or Urban Neighborhood; new and existing Streets; the Build-to Line and Parking Setback Line, the Street Tree Alignment line, Regulated Environmental Features, and the Street-type designation throughout the plan area.

(4)

A Regulating Plan may identify specific characteristics assigned to a lot or building site and may identify additional regulations (and opportunities) for lots in specific locations, as well as exceptions to the Building Envelope Standards or other standards of this Subtitle.

(5)

A Regulating Plan, submitted and approved in accordance with Part 2. Administration, shall be prepared for each Urban Neighborhood. It is generally the product of the master planning or sector planning process, but may also result from a Zoning Map Amendment.

(6)

The Urban Neighborhood, except as otherwise noted, is the minimum increment for a Regulating Plan.

(7)

Abutting Regulating Plans shall be compatible with one another. For the purposes of this paragraph, compatible shall mean that the proposed Regulating Plan is consistent with regard to the application of Building Envelope Standards (see Section 27A-304(A)(3)), and that to the extent feasible, Streets from the proposed Regulating Plan connect to those in any existing abutting Regulating Plan.

(CB-1-2010)