The County Council, sitting as a District Council for the Maryland-Washington Regional District within the County, to assist in providing moderately priced housing has enacted zoning standards in Chapter 59, establishing in certain zones optional density bonus provisions which increase the allowable residential density above the maximum base density of the zoning classification and permit alternative dwelling unit types other than those allowed under the standard method of development. Land upon which the applicant must build MPDUs may, at the applicant’s election, be subject to optional zoning provisions. If the applicant elects the optional density provisions, permitting the construction of an increased number of dwelling units or increased percentage of residential floor area, the MPDU requirement must apply to the total number of dwelling units or percentage of residential floor area as increased by application of the optional density provisions or by the approval of a special exception that increases the density above the otherwise permitted density of the zoning classification in which the property is situated. (1974 L.M.C., ch. 17, § 1; 1976 L.M.C., ch. 35, § 4; 1978 L.M.C., ch. 31, § 4; 1979 L.M.C., ch. 21, § 4; 1980 L.M.C., ch. 28, § 1; 1982 L.M.C., ch. 6, § 1; 1989 L.M.C., ch. 27, § 1; 1996 L.M.C., ch. 13, § 1; 1996 L.M.C., ch. 20, § 1; 1998 L.M.C., ch. 12, § 1; , § 1; , § 2; , § 1.)
Editor's note—Section 25A-6, formerly § 25A-5, was renumbered and amended pursuant to 1989 L.M.C., ch. 27, § 1.
