Maryland Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission Section 7-112

      When the Commission has adopted a master plan of highways of the regional district and has certified the plan to the County Council and clerk of the Circuit Court of Montgomery County and to the Board of County Commissioners and clerk of the Circuit Court of Prince George's County, thereafter no road, park, or other public way or ground, no public (including federal) buildings or structures, and no public utility, whether publicly or privately owned, shall be located, constructed, or authorized in the regional district until and unless the proposed location, character, grade, and extent thereof has been submitted to and approved by the Commission. In case of disapproval, the Commission shall communicate its reasons to the State, federal, county, municipal, or district board, body, or official proposing to locate, construct, or authorize such public way, ground, building, structure, or utility. Thereupon the board, body, or official in its discretion may overrule the disapproval and proceed. The widening, extension, relocation, narrowing, vacation, abandonment, change of use of any road, park, or other public way or ground in the regional district, or the acquisition or sale of any land in the regional district by any public board, body, or official shall be subject to similar submission and approval; and the failure to approve may be similarly overruled. The failure of the Commission to act within 60 days from and after the date of official submission to it shall be deemed an approval, unless a longer period be granted by the submitting board, body, or official. After appropriate public hearings, the Commission shall adopt uniform standards of review to be followed in reviewing changes to public property located in the regional district. The Commission shall publish a notice of the adoption of the standards of review in one newspaper of record that is published in each county. The notice shall include a summary of the purpose of the standards and the review process. The notice also shall identify a location and a phone number to contact for a complete copy of the standards of review.