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Brandywine Revitalization and Preservation Study November 2011 Report Revitalization and Preservation Strategies for a Community in Brandywine, MD This study concerns revitalization of an older community in southern Prince George's County,
located between rapidly developing areas adjacent to MD 5/US 301, and the county's designated Rural
Tier. The Brandywine Revitalization and Preservation study area straddles both the Subregion 5 and
Subregion 6 master plans, approved in 2009, and responds to recommendations in those plans that a
planning study focus on revitalization in this community. While this older Brandywine community has
attributes of a small town and a cluster of historic resources, it lacks other characteristics that
would distinguish it as such. The threat is that without a definition of the desired community
character and strategies for achieving it, new development, when it arrives in old Brandywine, will
subsume it into the suburban fabric of the greater community. The strategies and illustrations in
this study are intended to be used as an action plan for community stakeholders to improve the look
and function of the public realm, focusing on improving the Brandywine Road streetscape,pedestrian
circulation and safety.
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