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Library
4. Encourage resourceefficient facilities and activities.
3. Expand the library system to better serve planning area residents.
2. (Cont’d) Provide residents of the sector plan area and surrounding communities with neighborhood schools that are not overcrowded, feature cuttingedge technological and instructional opportunities, and serve as centers of their communities.
Goal
Support energy, water, and other conservation measures.
Promote the construction of “green” buildings, including public facilities.
Seek opportunities to locate new public facilities near existing facilities.
Investigate a location within the planning area where a new branch library may be sited to meet existing and future demand.
Construct schools on existing Board of Education properties west of the study area to mitigate pressure coming from the west and north on sector area schools.
Renovate or replace school facilities rated “poor” by the 2008 Parsons/3DI study.
Policy
Require pervious paving or other alternative paving methods on all new occasional-use parking and emergency access areas.
Consider water conservation measures in all public facilities.
Continue to require the construction of LEED-certified public facilities.
Locate new public facilities near existing public facilities, where feasible.
Construct a new branch library at the Glenn Dale Community Center (11901 Glenn Dale Boulevard).
Construct two K–8 schools on the Mandan Road properties in Planning Area 67.
Renovate or replace the Howard B. Owens Science Center at 9601 Greenbelt Road with a modern, stateof-the-art facility.
Table 57 (cont’d) Public Facilities and Services Strategy
M–L
S–M
Time Frame*
Prince George’s County, S M-NCPPC
Prince George’s County S
Prince George’s County, S M-NCPPC
Prince George’s County S
Prince George’s County, Prince George’s County S–M Memorial Library System (PGCMLS)
PGPS
PGPS
Responsible Party
Chapter 12—Implementation Action Plan
Glenn Dale-Seabrook-Lanham and Vicinity Approved Sector Plan and Sectional Map Amendment