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Capitol Heights Economic Policy Goals

• Through comprehensive and concentrated economic planning, the Town Capitol Heights will advance smart growth measures toward neighborhood stabilization market recovery.
• Grow population base by twenty-five (25) percent through strategic land use development and budgetary planning.
• Attract a neighborhood base, sub region community reinvestment that builds an internal local market demand, which retains income expenditure dollars and facilitates real and personal property tax value stabilization.
• Promote income diverse, mixed-use anchor development opportunities within targeted main street and transportation oriented development (TOD) nodes, which achieve livable, workable and walk-able pedestrian experiences, and synergize commercial revitalization activity linkages between the districts.
• Plan the marketing and attraction of light industry manufacture and technology sectors to the industrial business park corridor that stimulate the expansion of ancillary growth.
• Leverage the establishment of public/private investment partnerships that foster the creation of sustainable economic development and job growth opportunities linked to existing and expanding new markets.
• Create affordable housing development and restoration initiatives that stabilize existing neighborhood residential infrastructure integrated with an income diverse, new housing mixed-use tenure development plan.
• Facilitate comprehensively balanced and equable community development standards toward improving neighborhood conditions and quality of life.

Priority Development Areas & Redevelopment Opportunities

The establishment and implementation of priority development areas are fundamental to Capitol Heights’ internal market sustainability and physical revitalization to attract mixed-use commercial, residential and office activity. The focused concentrations within priority areas will seek to maximum targeted resources and prioritize redevelopment to facilitate critical mix neighborhood nodes.          

Priority Development Areas

• Capitol Heights Metro Station District (Davey Street and Capitol Heights Blvd)
• Main Street Commercial District (Old Central, Southern and Chamber Avenues)
• The Walker Mill Business Park (Walker Mill)
• Vacant Scattered Sites (Preservation of various neighborhood sites)

Metro/Commercial District Area Zoning

• Underlying Zoning
  • Mixed-Use – Transportation Oriented (M-X-T)
  • Townhouse (R-T)
  • One-Family Detached Residential (R-55)
• Overlay Zoning
  • Transit District Overlay (T-D-O)

Development Plans

• General Plan:   Prince George’s County General Plan (October 2002)
• Master Plan:    Prince George’s County Sub-region 4 Master Plan and Sectional Map Amendment (2010)
• Other Plans:    Capitol Heights Transit District Development Plan and
  Transit District Overlay Zoning Map Amendment (2007)
• Town of Capitol Heights Sustainability Plan (2011)