Largo Sector Plan & Station Area Plan

The Largo Town Center Sector Plan includes approximately 713 acres of land, with 208 acres of which are vacant, surface parking or underdeveloped. A primary goal of the master plan is to revitalize the area surrounding the Largo Town Center Metro Station – with a focus on transforming an existing suburban shopping center, office park, and auto-oriented development into a denser, mixed-use, and walkable transit-oriented, urban-like environment.

The master plan process included early stakeholder interviews, focus group sessions, and 4 public workshops, each building upon the previous, with presentations followed by roundtable discussions. During the public workshops, participants were asked to mark-up base maps, evaluate picture icon cards of “preferred Development Scenarios” and precedent images (streetscape, architectural character, open space, and green infrastructure, for example), evaluate 3-D Sketch-Up models that depicted development mass, scale, and height, and assist the planning team in defining overall goals and objectives. Key plan goals, developed with public input during these workshops, included 1) increasing the street network to create a pattern of small, walkable blocks; 2) encouraging higher densities and taller, mixed-use buildings closest to transit; 3) transitioning in scale to existing neighborhoods; 4) adding meaningful public open spaces to support events and activities; and 5) creating a more robust multi-modal transportation system that would enable road diets and conversion of 1-way streets to 2-way.

The final Sector Plan, a 285-page document, was approved by County Council in December of 2013 following joint public hearings with the District Council and the Planning Board.  The Sector plan, among other items, outlines a vision, an implementation strategy, necessary zoning and policy changes, development standards, and specific Sectional Map Amendments (property by property rezoning recommendations).