What Prince George’s County, Maryland, lacks in fine dining, the business community will tell you it makes up for in red tape.
The permitting process in the county has long been a complaint, and past efforts at reform haven’t had the intended impact.
On Tuesday, a majority of the Prince George’s County Council announced a package of new bills that aims to make it easier to lure more restaurants to the county, and make it easier for county residents to open and operate their businesses where they live.
The first part of the introduced package is a resolution that would create a task force aimed at figuring out why the permitting process in the county is so much slower than anywhere else in the region.
“One of the things that we hear all of the time is that we do it slower than everywhere else,” Council Chair Krystal Oriadha said. “But there’s a reality that we do want a fast process, but we don’t want a process that cuts out the community.”
