I live in a single-family home. The MIOZMA establishes height limits that may be as high as several hundred feet. How does this affect me and why am I being placed in this zone?
The Prince George’s County Zoning Ordinance establishes height limits for a variety of uses, including single-family homes. These are established in the Ordinance or through approval of a Specific Design Plan for some neighborhoods. Nearly all single-family homes in the MIOZ area are subject to an existing zoning restriction on the height of their homes of 35-50 feet. The height restriction applicable to your property is that which is most restrictive.

In most cases, the MIOZ height limit will not apply to your single-family home. However, a significant number of uses, including most industrial and commercial uses, are permitted throughout the County without a height limit. These uses, and land zoned for these uses, is interspersed throughout the Impact Area. In addition, telecommunications facilities have a large height limit that may have permitted structures to intrude into the airspace.

By comprehensively identifying the maximum height to which structures or landfill may grow, the MIOZ creates a safety net that accounts for properties where the use may change and where the existing zoning regulations did not account for height. Find out who to contact for more information.

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1. What is the MIOZ?
2. What is the MIOZMA?
3. What are the Safety Zones?
4. When will the MIOZ take effect?
5. Why do these regulations extend beyond the Clear Zone?
6. What kind of accidents are possible in the Safety Zones?
7. After all the development that has been allowed, why is this legislation being proposed now?
8. The MIOZ refers to the need to have a Use and Occupancy Permit. I heard that such permits were not required for churches. Is this true?
9. All the MIOZ make my use or structure nonconforming? Can a nonconforming use be replaced by the same use after the MIOZ is enacted? Are uses prohibited by the MIOZ “grandfathered” in?
10. Are new churches allowed?
11. Why aren’t we restricting JBA activity instead of many of the prohibited uses in the MIOZ?
12. I live in a single-family home. The MIOZMA establishes height limits that may be as high as several hundred feet. How does this affect me and why am I being placed in this zone?
13. The letter I received contained a reference to an affidavit requirement and the intensification of zoning. Can you provide more information?
14. What are the restrictions outside of the APZs?
15. How can the zoning be seen at the "street" level?
16. At what point in the development approval process is a project considered "vested?"