March 10 Joint Hearing on Central Avenue Blue and Silver Line Plan

The Prince George’s County Council, sitting as the District Council, and the County Planning Board of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission will hold a joint public hearing in the County Council Hearing Room on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 (meeting code JT 03102026) to take testimony on the Preliminary Central Avenue–Blue/Silver Line Sector Plan and the Proposed Sectional Map Amendment tied to Council Resolution CR-053-2023; the meeting is listed to reconvene at 6:00 P.M. The hearing frames rezoning near three Metrorail stations as the immediate consequence for nearby properties, including explicit proposals to rezone parcels along Morgan Boulevard from IE and RSF-95 to the transit-oriented RTO-L-E zone.

The sector plan and SMA package includes parcel-specific entries shown in the Pgplanning excerpts: Zoning Change 8 (ZC 8) would shift 1.26 acres from IE to RTO-L-E with a Morgan Boulevard focus, and Zoning Change 10 (ZC 10) would move 1.44 acres from RSF-95 to RTO-L-E; the SMA excerpts also list entries such as ZC 9 (CGO to RTO-L-E) and tax account references including 1536077, 1445972, and 2073336. The SMA entries cite the plan’s applicable policies - LU 1, LU 2, LU 6, LU 8, EP 6, HN 11, HN 12, HC 13, PF 16 - and designate future land use as Mixed Use.

County staff materials and consultant Stantec cast the plan as a transit-oriented development effort to knit Central Avenue into denser, walkable nodes around Capitol Heights, Addison Road, and Morgan Boulevard stations. Stantec language in project materials frames the effort as “unlocking real, transformative growth for an emerging transit-oriented development corridor” and notes Central Avenue’s history as an auto-centric corridor whose growth has been stifled by “decades of economic and racial inequities stemming from Jim Crow laws.” Stantec’s deliverables include three concept site plans that introduce mixed-use walkable activity centers around the rail stations.

Procedural requirements for the March 10 hearing are explicit: the County notice states, “If your intent is to request or support an intensification of zoning, you must complete and return an affidavit in accordance with the State Public Ethics Law, §§5-833 through 5-839, General Provisions Article, Annotated Code of Maryland,” and that the affidavit must reach the Clerk of the County Council 30 days before the hearing - computed as Friday, February 6, 2026. The notice adds, “Required affidavits should be submitted to the Clerk of the County Council in electronic format only, via the Council’s eComment portal or by email to onlinesignup@co.pg.md.us, rather than by U.S. mail,” and reiterates that “Testimony and comments will not be accepted via social media or by telephone/voice mail.” The Granicus meeting agenda notes that “advance registration to testify is strongly encouraged,” and that the District Council’s rules of procedure will govern the hearing.

A printed copy of the Preliminary Central Avenue–Blue/Silver Line Sector Plan and the Proposed SMA is available for on-site review at the City of Seat Pleasant, and county materials including the initiating resolution CR-053-2023 are posted online. The joint hearing agenda lists County Council Chair Krystal Oriadha for introductory remarks and M-NCPPC project manager William Skibinski to deliver the staff presentation. Opposition activity has surfaced publicly: an Instagram post from a group styling itself “STOP Blue/Silver Line Sector Plan KULÜBÜ” referenced the March 10 hearing in September 2025, underscoring that organized testimony is likely and that the county is restricting the official record to in-person and eComment filings. The March 10 joint hearing will be the formal public forum where staff presentations, elected officials’ remarks, and citizen testimony are entered into the record under CR-053-2023 and the County’s procedural rules.