# Land Use (GLU)

## Title 7. Other Development Management Tools

### Subtitle 1. Development Mechanisms

#### Section 7-101

To encourage the preservation of natural resources or the provision of affordable housing and to facilitate orderly development and growth, a local jurisdiction that exercises authority granted by this division may enact, and is encouraged to enact, local laws providing for or requiring:

(1) the planning, staging, or provision of adequate public facilities and affordable housing;

(2) off-site improvements or the dedication of land for public facilities essential for a development;

(3) moderately priced dwelling unit programs;

(4) mixed use developments;

(5) cluster developments;

(6) planned unit developments;

(7) alternative subdivision requirements that:

  (i) meet minimum performance standards set by the local jurisdiction; and

  (ii) reduce infrastructure costs;

(8) floating zones;

(9) incentive zoning; and

(10) performance zoning.

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Md. Code Ann., Land Use (as displayed at mgaleg.maryland.gov, October 16, 2026)