Prince George’s County has adopted a new plan for the Central Avenue corridor that preserves greater development capacity around Metro and advances practical steps toward safer, better-connected communities.

Prince George’s County spent years updating its zoning to encourage walkable, transit-oriented, and equitable growth , especially in long-disinvested inner-Beltway neighborhoods. Now, a new proposal—the Flagship Project Overlay Zone (FPOZ) —threatens to undermine those reforms. The County Council will soon consider legislation (CB-105-2025 and CB-92-2025) that would create an overlay zone allowing certain mega-developments to bypass essential zoning safeguards and public inpu

Prince George’s County keeps chasing one “white whale” after another. The closure of Six Flags America is a reminder to focus instead on the places where infrastructure and opportunity already exist.

With the Washington Commanders leaving Landover, Prince George’s County must resist the lure of flashy redevelopment and stay focused on building equitable, transit-oriented communities around its Metro stations.

As America grapples with a deepening housing crisis, New York Times columnist Conor Dougherty recently argued that more suburban and exurban sprawl—endless subdivisions, expanding highways, and cheaply built infrastructure on greenfield land—is the answer to our housing shortage. According to Dougherty, only by building farther away from existing cities can we construct the millions of new homes we need. This narrative, however, ignores the long-term environmental, economic